Today 65
years ago on 25 March 1949 the Soviet Union deported more than 20 000 people in
the middle of the night from Estonia to Siberia in cattle trains, mostly women
and children. This was a crime against humanity committed by the Soviet Union in
Estonia and the second mass deportation of political elite, academia, business people,
farmers and generally pro-independence population. Nine years earlier in 1940 the
Soviet Union had illegally annexed Estonia. My father remembers how as a 7 year
old child, almost the age of my own son, he hid behind a snow pile when the Russians
came. In memory of the victims who were executed, imprisoned, repressed, died or
were forced to become refugees we light candles in all cities in Estonia today. http://www.communistcrimes.org/en
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