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Untold stories of Summer 1941 by the survivors among Estonian diaspora.

The picture is a still from Estonian movie “Risttuules” (2014) that depicts Soviet mass deportation of Estonians to Siberia on 14 June 1941. First wave of Soviet ethnic cleansing of Estonians efforts that later results in loss of 30% of…

The Estonian Summer War of 1941.

On 3 July 1941 the active phase of Estonian Summer War of 1941 began after Stalin’s scorched earth decree and radio speech that was ordered to be conducted by the NKVD. With the operation “Barbarossa” and Stalin’s speech of 3…