A Search for a Happy Country (Washington: National Home Library Foundation). she concludes that the Republic of Estonia was that happy country. Under Soviet domination Estonia has suffered tremendouslydemographically. politically. culturally. Thus. the country lost almost onethird of its prewar population between 1939 and 1949. due foremost to Soviet atrocities. especially brutal were the mass deportations of 1941 and 1949. After the war. there has been a steady influx of Russians. the share of the population which is ethnic Estonian declined in the present territory from 92 percent in 1939 to 68 percent by 1970. While the minority laws of the Republic of Estonia were renowned internationally.
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