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during the winter of 41-42 1/3 of estonians mobilised to soviet army died of hunger, beatings, suicides, pneumonia, cold in soviet army work batallions.
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NATO return to Cold War force structure
bd1 replied to Martineleca's topic in Military Current Events
bojan, in Estonia, the 1929-32 economic crisis brought forward Vapsid-movement, somewhat proto-fascist war veterans with their new constitution project that gave almost all authority to elected president, because too-loose parliamentary democratic system had so many little parties etc. that there were dozens of minority etc. goverment béfore that. However, that Konstantin Päts, the basicly founder of Est. Republic in 1918, with the assistance of commander of army, and with the consent of all other parties (incl. socialists), took power , forced that constitution , dissolved parliament and ruled with very soft authocratic hand till 1940. ( some leaders of the Vapsid were sent to a small island community for 2-3 years, one leader of the Vapsid escaped to Luxembourg , where he either jumped out of window or was thrown out , in that case it being the only known political murder in our history) in 1938, celebrating the 20th anniversary of independence, the communists , who were jailed in 1924 coup attempt, were released under general amnesty, which did not turn out to be a good idea. there was official nation-building campaigns, like changing foreign-sounding last names to estonian-sounding ones etc., but i would not describe the interwar Estonian Republic never in such terms as you do. of minorities, germans, jews, russians, swedes got cultural autonomy rights ( own social-legal-religious-educational affairs within constitution), but only germans and jews started their own organisations, rest apparently did not see the need for it. that law, from 1925, was iirc most liberal in europe, and AFAIK it was the first jewish cultural autonomy in the world. oh, and living expectancy etc. did not reach the 1939 standards until 1960 , though numbers of country doctors etc. did increase. my point is not to start off another pointless war of words that last for weeks over multiple threads, but at least in our case , i do think you are bit off. edit - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaps_Movement -
in 1983 or 1984 my dad a cruise on soviet research ship in Baltic Sea, it was after the KAL shootdown and the east-west relations were at rock bottom. in Denmark when that ship was in anchor, danes did a anti-terrorist drills through the night , shooting blanks, in Hamburg they were not allowed to leave ship and in swedish waters a Viggen did some very , very daring maneuvers (or so they seemed from the ship, dad took a photo that showed the plane seemingly really ´buzzing the tower´ Top Gun style. ´he probably was trying to blast the sov. flag off the pole´ dad said 😁
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NATO return to Cold War force structure
bd1 replied to Martineleca's topic in Military Current Events
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iirc the whole orcs thing started on the first days of invasion when ukrainian elderly lady described the invaders on TV ´they just burned and shooted, just like orcs in that movie´´. i personally think they have every right to call russians whatever they want, it´s the ROW where the iffiness come into play
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Flood prevention
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in an inteview with estonian in International Legion, he mentioned that wherever they went (to front or just passing by) , ukrainians always asked them to go on air and speak whatever comes to mind in english or whatever other languages they could , just to create confusion, he guessed that was the reason for all the ´´NATO troops´´ memes
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The end of towed artillery says US general
bd1 replied to lucklucky's topic in Weapons other than Tanks (WOTTs)
ROK put their old 105mm on 5t. 6x6-s, what you mean is Hawkeye 105 https://mandusgroup.com/hawkeye/ with it´s unique recoil system, but i have no idea if that system is finally ready or not ukrainians have said that towed guns could be put on position during night and in morning they have the same thermal signature as surroundings, of course during day they will show up. so , take position at night, shoot in morning and scoot -
NATO return to Cold War force structure
bd1 replied to Martineleca's topic in Military Current Events
but the independence movements in Baltics did get very little support before aug91 from West, being told that ´´for gods sake , don´t rock the boat , pleaseeee.....!´´ helmuth kohl was so angry at baltics that he refused state visit iirc and also later one as a private citizen etc. -
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13241783/Kind-hearted-woman-nurses-stricken-baby-hedgehog-overnight-discover-fluffy-hat-bobble-took-animal-hospital.html
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and the opposite of course is that we also understand better how our ancestors felt and went through and why it is so important to keep russia and russians as far as possible......