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Originally Posted by CyberSEO
Occupation? LOL, Estonia was in chocolate during the USSR times, now it's in a deep asshole (call it a crisis or whatever you want). The same has happened to Latvia and Lithuania  |
I don't think ANY Estonia would agree with that statement.
Yes the good old days
Following the invasion of Soviet troops on June 17, 1940 and the installation of a puppet government backed by the Soviet Union, which declared Estonia a Soviet state. The Estonian SSR was subsequently incorporated into the USSR on August 9, 1940. This territory was also occupied by Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1944.
More than 200,000 people are estimated to have been deported from the Baltic in 1940?1953. In addition, at least 75,000 were sent to Gulag.
More than 10% of the entire adult Baltic population was deported or sent to Soviet labour camps. In response to the continuing insurgency against Soviet rule,
more than 20,000 Estonians were forcibly deported either to labour camps or Siberia. Almost all of the remaining rural households were collectivized.