Military arrests and mass persecutions followed and Estonia was overrun. During the first year of Soviet occupation. there was a manpower loss of over 60.000 men of all ages and classes. Ten thousand of these were removed in a single night as a part of the wellsynchronized Communist plot. Another 60.000 Estonians who resisted Soviet collectivism and fought in the underground for reestablishment of their beloved homeland were deported between 194449. By that time the Communists had added another reluctant member to its growing empire. But despite 27 years of displacement. the mighty spirit of the fighting Estonians remains unbroken.
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