Monday 21 March 2022

Curly Strings - Mind nad kätte ei saa / They Won't Catch Me

Between 25th - 28th March 1949 over 20,000 Estonians and around 70,00 Latvians and Lithuanians were focibly taken from their homes, schools, and places of work by the Soviet Army and deported to Siberia. This event is known as 'Märtsiküüditamine' in Estonia.

But one young man, Aksel Herbert Lindal, was able to escape. Curly Strings’ singer and fiddle player Eeva Talsi has a personal connection to this, because Aksel was her grandfather. On 25th March 2020, Curly Strings published the video for their moving song “Mind nad kätte ei saa!” (“They Won’t Catch Me!”), about Talsi’s grandfather’s story.