80 anni fa oggi, le forze sovietiche entrarono a Tallinn. 4 giorni prima, in un vuoto di potere, era stato formato il governo di Otto Tief, era stata dichiarata l’indipendenza estone e si era organizzata una difesa senza speranza di Tallinn. Le forze estoni si ritirarono nell’Estonia occidentale, dove la resistenza continuò.

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.

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.

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

Until the Baltics sang away the occupiers!

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