Soon the total occupation of Estonia was accomplished with Soviet armored cars and infantry. The socalled elections referred to by the New York Times took place on July 14 and July 15. Over 10.000 suspected Estonian patriots were deported to Russia and Siberia. another 30.000 the following year. Konstantin Pats. the last President of free Estonia. disappeared forever into Stalins gulag. Another wave of deportations took place in 1949. when Stalin finally stamped out local resistance to the Soviet reconquest of Estonia after the Nazi occupation during World War II. I recently happened to look at a National Geographic magazine map of the peoples of the Soviet Union with annotations of the languages spoken throughout that great expanse of land. And there on the West Siberian Plain. about 3.500 kilometers from the Baltic shores. are a halfdozen references to "Estonian." among Russian.
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