Perhaps more so than any other of the Soviet "republics." Estonia is subjected to linguistic and literal Russification. as migration from other areas of the Soviet Union threatens to make the Estonian people a minority in their own country. All the highsounding phrases In the Soviet Constitution about the autonomy of republics and the rights of Individual citizens. are almost entirely subverted to the interests of the Communist Party and its ruling elite. the "nomenklatura." Independent political voices are persecuted. many Estonian cultural expressions such as certain proSoviet works of literature and music are banned. monuments to nonCommunist Estonian national heroes have been destroyed and desecrated. the churches repressed and coopted. Estonians are forbidden to emigrate freely or visit their many friends and loved ones abroad. In other words. Estonians share the fate of the many other peoples who have been swallowed up by the maw of "victorious socialism." Not only do they share the fate. but many of them share the gulag.
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