Returned to the Tallinn Military Cemetery today. The immediacy of Estonian history is always present: /1
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When the Russians occupied Estonia during WWII, they began knocking down the graves of Estonians and burying dead Russians on top of them. /2
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Keep an eye on the guy in the background. More on him later. /3
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He was executed by the Russians in 1941. /5
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Oddly enough, here's an old @benimmo article on the British navy in Baltic Independence /9
m.baltictimes.com/article/jcms/i…
I know a lot of Estonians who have no idea where the bodies of their fathers and grandfathers, mothers and grandmothers, lay. /10
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The last forest brother was caught in 1978. They killed a lot of Russians in the meantime. Forest brothers were the mythology of young Estonians under USSR /11
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The riots and the cyberattacks were the first two actions in a Russian hybrid war that we should have paid more attention to.
That was 11 years ago. Rally up, already. /13
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