OWTF 2012-2014.

1. OWTF III presentation of Estonian team

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After World War II
Estonia were
occupated by soviet
troops
Estonia became
part of totalitarian
state – its ment a
lot of changes in all
country

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Communist party as only political party
Official name were the Estonian Soviet
Socialist Republic
Instead free elections just one candidate and
always 99,8% affirmative votes

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Industrialisation and
creating large enterprises
Collectivization farms
Controlled by communist
party economy – command
economy
Labour came from Russia –
during soviet time 35% of
population were
immigrants from Soviet
Russia

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Fight against “bourgeois nationalism”
Massdeportations (biggest were 25/26 of
March 1949 – 20722 people were deported)
Direct physical repressions were accompanied
by spiritual violence, expressed in the total
submission of the social spiritual life to the
ruling ideological dogmas and levelling the
pre-war sphere of culture
(education, science, art, etc.)

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The aim of the
official cultural
policies of Soviet
Estonia was to
introduce the
kind of culture
where the
“socialist
content” was
fitted into a
“national form”

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Ideological pressure
Class principle
KGB kept the church and other aspects of
spiritual life under control
selective destruction of cultural heritage
created by the preceding generations
Russification, but still Estonian-language
education and culture persisted

8. Propaganda posters from 1950

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In the post-war years, inflation was
high, food and goods were scarce and most
of the population was in a permanent
struggle for survival.
The war had destroyed approximately 25 to
30 percent of urban housing, rebuilding was
slow and the urban population, after a low
level in 1945, began to rise.
Black markets thrived and stealing from the
state became widespread.

10. Leader of Soviet Estonia
Nikolai Karotamm giving
speech

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Losses of population and russification in
cultural life
Repression of political elite
Territorial losses (Pihkva and part of eastern
Estonia)
Nationalisation of enterprises, banks, houses
Destroied national heritage (ideologization
everyday life)
Environmental problems in north-east of
Estonia

12. Cars were selled in soviet Estonia by special licenses