All had been murdered by Communist security police using nape shots. hands bound behind their backs. The unaccounted 5.900 arrested were sent to forced labor camps in the Soviet Union. or were murdered in the Soviet Union. never to be heard from again. By June 1941. those deported into the Soviet Union totaled 10.205. More than 1.100 were unaccounted for and missing. The Nazi occupation ended in the fall of 1944. when Communist troops reentered Estonia. Arrests. murders. and deportations resumed. To escape Communist terror 75.000 Estonians fled their country in advance of the Red army occupation. Another large kidnaping of Estonians was effected by the Russians on March 22 to 25. 1959.
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