Every year, Estonia commemorates the anniversary of the June 1941 deportation with a national day of mourning. Seventy-eight years ago, Soviet security authorities deported 95,000 people from the Baltic states, Poland, Bukovina, and Bessarabia (today’s Moldova and Southwest Ukraine). In this move, Stalin’s regime destroyed local rural economies and forced the collectivization of farms and local agricultural businesses. …read more
Source: ERR
