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    Heute vor 80 Jahren marschierten sowjetische Truppen in Tallinn ein. Vier Tage zuvor war in einem Machtvakuum die Regierung von Otto Tief gebildet, die Unabhängigkeit Estlands erklärt und eine hoffnungslose Verteidigung Tallinns organisiert worden. Die estnischen Truppen zogen sich nach Westestland zurück, wo der Widerstand weiterging.

    Heute vor 80 Jahren marschierten sowjetische Truppen in Tallinn ein. Vier Tage zuvor war in einem Machtvakuum die Regierung von Otto Tief gebildet, die Unabhängigkeit Estlands erklärt und eine hoffnungslose Verteidigung Tallinns organisiert worden. Die estnischen Truppen zogen sich nach Westestland zurück, wo der Widerstand weiterging.

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    1. kuusk430b on

      For some reason while making this post, Reddit decided to post it anyways before I was even done adding everything, so I just deleted it and posted this.

    3. kuusk430b on

      After the Germans had all but left Tallinn on 18 September 1944, the last Estonian prime minister Jüri Uluots ordered the creation of a government of the Republic of Estonia. The Nazi flag was torn down from Pikk Hermann and was replaced with the Estonian tricolor. The Estonian tricolor flew over Tallinn for 4 days, before it disappeared for 45 years. A hopeless defense of Tallinn was organized mainly by Jaan Maide, independence war legend and war hero Johan Pitka, Paul Laamann and Karl Talpak. The Estonians withdrew from Tallinn into Western Estonia, where the Soviet advance would be delayed enough for thousands of people to escape the Soviets into the free world. These men were some of the only men in the Second World War to fight and die under the Estonian flag.

    4. FacetiousInvective on

      I don’t know a lot about different events in different countries, but I recognize an ISU-152 when I see it.. sexy ass tanks!

    5. Common_Brick_8222 on

      People understood that communism was a scam, and there could be no paradise where you could be shot for telling a joke.

    6. PumpkinOwn4947 on

      Russia is USSR with a cloak. Same ugly politics, people, principles that lead to war, killings, and destruction.

    9. dat_9600gt_user on

      I can only imagine what those who lived back then felt when Estonia left the Soviet Union

    11. stellarb3 on

      My 90 year old Estonian grandma who lives in Tallinn saw both German and Soviet armies come through the city. She told me first hand how big of a difference there was between the occupiers. Young German soldiers stayed for the night and were described as polite, respectful and kind to the locals.

      While the Soviets who came, were cruel, looted and broke things. She said she saw Soviet soldiers beat women with the buttstocks of their rifles.

      And many Estonian grandparents who lived through it say the same. My grand-grandfather died on the eastern front in Latvia, the Soviets used innocent men as cannon fodder

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