"Ultima Thule": "Lennelda priiks" − [Flying to the free-
dom], 1988.
The Estonian original. −
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI4pC8kJqg4.
Lyrics for the fin cover "Vapauteen" − [Into freedom], by "Folkswagen", 2007. −
http://www.folkswagen.fi/vapauteen.htm
The Bronze Night (est
Pronksiöö ), also known as the
April Unrest (Aprillirahutused) or
April Events (Aprillisündmused), refers to the riots and controversy surrounding the 2007 relocation of Tallinn's
"Bronze Soldier (Pronksisõdur)". This statue had been the main Soviet World War II memorial in the "Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic". Most of the ethnic Estonian population of Estonia considered, with a good reason, a Soviet war memorial at the centre of an independent republic's capital a symbol of
two Soviet occupations (1940−41, 1944−91) and of repressions. Estonia has been a de jure independent state since 1918. (Wikipedia: The free encyclopedia, s.v.
Bronze Night. −
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_Night; s.v.
Estonia. −
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Estonia, 8.9.2008.)
ILLUSTRATION. The Bronze Soldier of Tallinn at its former location in May 2006
(W.F.E., s.v.
Bronze Soldier of Tallinn. −
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_Soldier_of_Tallinn, 8.9.2008.)
Amid political controversy with the post-World War II immigrants, mostly of Russian ethnicity, the Government of Estonia started in April 2007 the final preparations for relocation of the monument and for reburial of the human remains around it. The government had got a political mandate for its actions from the last elections held in March 2007. Disagreement between ethnic Estonians and the immigrant population, over the appropriateness of the action, howerer led to mass protests and riots (accompanied by looting) lasting for two nights. This was the worst Estonia had seen since 1991. (W.F.E., s.v.
Bronze Night. −
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_Night, 8.9.2008.)
In the early hours of morning 27th April 2007, after the first night of rioting, the Government of Estonia decided − at its emergency meeting − to relocate the statue, immediately, referring to security concerns. By the following afternoon, the stone structure surrounding the statue had been dismantled as well. In the afternoon 30th April, the statue without a stone structure was replaced
at the Cemetery of the Estonian Defence Forces in Tallinn. During June 2007, the stone structure was also rebuilt. Relatives made claims to the bodies of four dead soldiers. 3rd July 2007, the unclaimed human remains were reburied at the military cemetery, next to the relocated monument.
(Ibid.)
ILLUSTRATION. Mourning flag for the memory of 9.254–10.861
deportées during the
Juuniküüditamine of 1941
[*] in Narva, Estonia 14th June 2004 − 63th anniversary
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(© Kimmo E. Laine, 2004.)
Suomeksi perusteellisemmin: Virolais-venäläinen kiista Tallinnan Tõnismäen entisestä "Suuren Isänmaallisen Sodan" muistomerkistä mediassa. − http://pronssikiista.blogspot.com/Nootit[*] June deportation (est
Juuniküüditamine, lav
Jūnija deportācijas, lit
Birželio trėmimai ) is the commonly used term for the Soviet Union's wave of deporting tens of thousands of people from the Baltic states, Western Belarus, Western Ukraine and Bessarabia starting 14th June 1941. Men generally were imprisoned and most of them died
in Siberian prison camps (rus ГУЛАГ). Women and children were resettled
in the Gulag of Kirov and Novosibirsk Regions. About a half of the last eventually survived. (Wikipedia: The free encyclopedia, s.v.
June deportation. −
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_deportation, 8.9.2008.) As well as on other territories occupied or illegally annexed by the Soviet Union in 1939–40, also in Estonia the first large scale deportation of ordinary citizens was carried out by the
local operational headquarters of the NKGB of the "Estonian SSR" (under Boris Kumm, the chairman; Andres Murro, Aleksei Shkurin, Veniamin Gulst and Rudolf James) – according to the
top secret joint decree N:o 1299-526ss of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union: 'Directive on the Deportation of the Socially Alien Element from the Baltic Republics, Western Ukraine, Western Belorussia and Moldavia', 14th May 1941. On that day and the two days following, 9.254–10.861 people – mostly urban population, and of them more than 5.000 women and over 2.500 children less than sixteen-years-old – were deported;
439 Jews were deported, too, which means more than 10 percent of the Estonian Jewish population of that time. About one hundred people were shot. Only 4.331 persons ever returned to Estonia. Total 11.102 people were planned to be deported from Estonia, according to the order of [?]13th June, but some of them managed to escape. During the first year of Soviet occupation, almost 54.000 Estonian citizens were executed, deported or mobilized into the Red Army. Following the German attack against the Soviet Union on 22nd June 1941, 33.000 Estonian men were conscripted
into the Soviet Army in early July. 10th July 1941, the conscripts from the occupied or illegally annexed territories, however, were declared non-reliable and sent
to the labor camps, where many of them died. (Wikipedia: The free encyclopedia, s.v.
June deportation. −
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_deportation; s.v.
Soviet deportations from Estonia. −
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_deportations_from_Estonia#June_deportation_of_1941, 8.9.2008.)
«Июнная депортация» (по-эстонски
Juuniküüditamine, по-латышски
Jūnija deportācijas, по-литовски
Birželio trėmimai ) – название широко использованное о волне депортации, которое началось 14-го июня 1941 г., и в связи с котором десятков тысяч людей из Прибалтики, Западной Белоруссии, Западной Украины и Бессарабии – т.е. из территорией, которые раньше были оккупированные Советским Союзом, или беззаконно аннексированные в СССР – сильно переселились. Мужчины, нормально, увзяли в тюрьму, и большинство из них умер
на лагерях Сибири (ГУЛАГ); женщины и дети были переселены
в ГУЛАГ Кировской и Новосибирской областей. О половине из последных, в конечном итоге, выжили. (Wikipedia: The free encyclopedia, s.v.
June deportation. −
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_deportation, 8.9.2008.) Аналогично с другими территориями, оккупированные Советским Союзом или беззаконно аннексированные в СССР в 1939–40 гг., так и в Эстонии первые крупномасштабные депортации рядовых граждан были проведени
местным оперативным штабом НКГБ «Эстонской ССР» (в соответствии председателей Борисом Куммом, Андресом Мурро, Алексеем Шкурином, Вениамином Гульстом и Рудольфом Джеймсом) –
по совместному указу N:о 1299-526ss, степени государственной тайны, Центрального Комитета КПСС(б) и Совета Народных Комиссаров СССР: «Директива о депортации социально чужного элемента из республик Прибалтики, из Западной Украины и Западной Белоруссии и из Молдавии», 14-го мая 1941 года. В тот день, и два следующих дней, 9.254–10.861 людей – в основном городского населения, и из них более 5.000 женщин и более 2.500 детей меньше шестнадцатого лет – были депортированы;
439 eвреи также были депортированы, что означает более чем 10 процентов еврейского населения Эстонии того времени. Людей сто были расстреляны. Лишь 4.331 когда-то вернулся в Эстонию. Итого 11.102 людей были выдуманы депортировать из Эстонии, согласно приказу [?]13 июня, но некоторым из них удалось скрыться. За первый год советской оккупации Прибалтики, почти 54.000 эстонских граждан были казнены, депортированы или мобилизованы
в Красную Армию. После нападения Германии против Советского Союза на 22 июня 1941 г., 33.000 эстонских мужчин были призваны в Красную Армию в начале июля. 10 июля 1941 г., призывники из территориях, оккупированные или беззаконно аннексированные, всё-таки, были объявлены не-надежными и направлялись
в трудовые лагеря, где многие из них умерли. (Wikipedia: The free encyclopedia, s.v.
June deportation. −
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_deportation; s.v.
Soviet deportations from Estonia. −
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_deportations_from_Estonia#June_deportation_of_1941, 8.9.2008.)
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