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🧵White terror in Estonia. Saaremaa and Muhu massacres.
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After the fall of the Estonian Labor Commune in early 1919, a large-scale workers' uprising began on the islands of Saaremaa and Muhu (Western Estonian Archipelago).
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After the fall of the Estonian Labor Commune in early 1919, a large-scale workers' uprising began on the islands of Saaremaa and Muhu (Western Estonian Archipelago).
The reason for it was the mobilization in the Estonian bourgeois army in preparation for their anti-Soviet intervention.
On February 16, 1919, the peasants of the village of Kuivastu sabotaged the nationalist mobilization efforts by killing the recruitment officer in charge.
On February 16, 1919, the peasants of the village of Kuivastu sabotaged the nationalist mobilization efforts by killing the recruitment officer in charge.
A peasant army was formed shortly after which had more than a thousand men and a command post. The main forces of the rebels besieged the city of Kuressaare, the county seat of Saaremaa, the last place on the islands where the Estonian bourgeoisie managed to retain power.
