Today, 85 years ago, russian occupation authorities under Stalin violently deported more than 10,000 people from Estonia to Siberia in soiled cattle wagons
Today, 85 years ago, Soviet authorities under Stalin violently deported more than 10,000 people from Estonia to Siberia in soiled cattle wagons.
It was part of a wider campaign of terror ordered from Moscow. In the Baltics, Moldova and western Belarus, around 106,000 people were deported in May–June 1941 alone.
Most of those taken from Estonia were women, children and the elderly.