Today 73 years ago the #Soviet occupation forcibly deported more than 20 000 people from #Estonia to #Siberia. In total they deported more than 90 000 people from the three Baltic states, including many children and the elderly. Prime example of a crime against humanity🧵1/12 Mass deportations were used by Soviets many times over the years. The biggest waves took place in June of 1941 and March 1949. So who were targeted? Mainly women, children and elderly. Why? According to the occupiers they were “anti-Soviet elements” 2/12

Interesting. @guardian reports that Estonia was told by Israel not to use spyware Pegasuses againts Russian targets back in august of 2019 theguardian.com/world/2022/mar… #estonia 🧵 1/5 Estonian MoD declined to comment. This reminded me of @citizenlab work from 2020 about NSO's other software - Circles. While Citizen Lab only claimed that Estonian state used the software I dug deeper with my sources and uncovered interesting things 2/5

Today 78 years ago, 6th of March 1944, the Soviets bombed Narva, Estonia to the ground with approx. 200 planes. Narva had been evacuated beforehand. This marked the beginning of the "March bombings" that lasted for a few weeks all over Estonia #history #estonia On the 9th and 10th of March the Soviets target was the capital city of Tallinn. 1549 buildings were demolished, 3350 damaged. They bombed the national operahouse "Estonia" where a show had just started. Historical synagogue was destroyed #Estonia #history