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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).
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.
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.
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For 2+ yrs, Shih Shui-huan's morning routine consisted of making 2 bento boxes replete w/ the flavors of her hometown, #Tainan. Oddly enough, the bachelorette lived alone in employee lodgings as a Taipei postal worker. She was also severely malnourished—weighing 38kg upon arrest.
Shih, who was secretly sheltering her wanted brother, evaded suspicion by buying single-household groceries. He spent daytime in the ceiling, and slept below the wood floors at night, according to accounts theorizing the KMT soldiers had little knowledge of Japanese architecture.
But a spurred admirer repeatedly tried to get her friend in trouble. Ting Yao-tiao cautioned Shih re her suitor's unsavory character, and in return, he reported Ting's book collection — but his letters were intercepted by Ting's friend Wu Li-shui, who worked at the postal office.
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