Day of Commemoration of the War of Freedom Fighters
First, happy new year to everyone, may your troubles be small during the new one.
This year our Republic will be 90 years old. Today, 1030 o'clock, 3rd of January, 1920 a cease fire was called out between our armed forces and Soviet Union. A war that was rich in victories and victims ended and eventually the free country was established.
This was celebrated by 3x3 salute of 105mm howitzers, in the capitol Tallinn.
There's a video in it:
http://www.postimees.ee/030108/esileht/siseuudised/304243.php
When the truce was called out the the Soviet Union first accepted our country and rejected any claims over it. Even the Brits didn't want to do that, although they did supplied us with weapons and kept sea supremacy (and got their own casualties there - hail to the glorious dead, mates), hoping that our troops will smash the reds and free Petrograd so that the Soviet Union would become again a Czarist Russia.
The Brits did object to the truce, as they hoped that instead of free Estonia there would be a Baltic Ducal State, countering the soviet might on the western border. But we had to be free country. Soviet Union had no other choice than accept it, because our forces, with british weapons, were already deep in their territories.
This war took heavy toll, with thousands dead in the war and more later, during the Soviet occupation, when the "participating in freedom war" was a hefty accusation with punishment of labor camps and executions.
A great thanks and honour to the men and women, who fought and died for their country.
This year our Republic will be 90 years old. Today, 1030 o'clock, 3rd of January, 1920 a cease fire was called out between our armed forces and Soviet Union. A war that was rich in victories and victims ended and eventually the free country was established.
This was celebrated by 3x3 salute of 105mm howitzers, in the capitol Tallinn.
There's a video in it:
http://www.postimees.ee/030108/esileht/siseuudised/304243.php
When the truce was called out the the Soviet Union first accepted our country and rejected any claims over it. Even the Brits didn't want to do that, although they did supplied us with weapons and kept sea supremacy (and got their own casualties there - hail to the glorious dead, mates), hoping that our troops will smash the reds and free Petrograd so that the Soviet Union would become again a Czarist Russia.
The Brits did object to the truce, as they hoped that instead of free Estonia there would be a Baltic Ducal State, countering the soviet might on the western border. But we had to be free country. Soviet Union had no other choice than accept it, because our forces, with british weapons, were already deep in their territories.
This war took heavy toll, with thousands dead in the war and more later, during the Soviet occupation, when the "participating in freedom war" was a hefty accusation with punishment of labor camps and executions.
A great thanks and honour to the men and women, who fought and died for their country.
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