Today is a day of mourning in Estonia, marking the 82nd anniversary of the June 1941 deportations that were carried out by the Soviet Union. In Tallinn today President Alar Karis tied symbolic black and white ribbons to a pole on the platform of Tallinn's main train station as did Tiia Nurmis and Malle Järvik, both of whom were deported from Estonia as children in 1941. The black and white mourning ribbons will fly at 70 railway stations across Estonia throughout the day.
1939: Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany colluded to divide Europe.
1940: USSR occupied the Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, killed political & military leaders.
14 June 1941: Soviet occupiers deported tens of thousands of innocent Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian citizens to Siberia, including ethnic Russians with citizenship from those countries.
1940: USSR occupied the Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, killed political & military leaders.
14 June 1941: Soviet occupiers deported tens of thousands of innocent Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian citizens to Siberia, including ethnic Russians with citizenship from those countries.
Almost every Estonian family was affected, including mine, by this crime.
We will never forget this heinous crime against humanity.
