Others attribute most of the negative feeling towards Russian as a direct derivative of Soviet/Russia repression during the first occupation, including mass deportations to Siberia, the liquidation and removal of the government, wide purges of most other officials, the destruction of the military, the sequestering of private property and the overall repression of the indigenous Estonian population.
These resentments obviously did not subside during Soviet authoritarianism and….
(Read more: Estonian Life No. 33 2020 paber- and PDF/digi)
Laas Leivat, Toronto
