ESTONIA: Almost extinguished, successfully reborn
The following text is the shortest possible review to help inform friends and guests from abroad about Estonia’s experience with foreign occupation and totalitarianism as well as its road to peacefully re-establishing national inde-pendence on the basis of democracy. Tunne Kelam Member of the European Parlament
The following text is the shortest possible review to help inform
friends and guests from abroad about Estonia’s experience with
foreign occupation and totalitarianism as well as its road to
peacefully re-establishing national inde-pendence on the basis
of democracy.
Tunne Kelam
Member of the European Parlament
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<strong>ESTONIA</strong>:<br />
<strong>Almost</strong><br />
<strong>extinguished</strong>,<br />
<strong>successfully</strong><br />
<strong>reborn</strong><br />
1944. Vormsi, a western island in Estonia, the port of Sviby. As the Red<br />
Army approaches, the inhabitants of Vormsi leave their homes to seek<br />
refuge in Sweden, hoping to get through Nazi and Soviet war planes and<br />
mines.(ERM – Estonian National Museum)<br />
The transit camp of deportees near Leningrad.<br />
(ERM – Estonian National Museum)<br />
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