June 14, 1941

Why remember the events of the past? To learn from them, to ensure not making same mistakes all over again, as the history does tend to repeat itself. Also, people behind the crimes of communist regime have not been in front of the jury yet, so all those issues can't be let go, not yet.

In 14th June, a lot of people were forced into cattle-trains and wheeled off to Soviet Union, it was the first mass-deportations in this country. A few of those deported in June ever returned. There were little more than 10,000 victims, some 36-38% were minors (under 17), around 100 less than year old infants.

In 1942, celebrating the freeing of Tartu from communist occupation, dr. Hjalmar Mäe said that according to Soviet plan there were supposed to be only 358,000 Estonians left in our country by August 1941, working as specialists, and to be later dispersed all over the Soviet Union as literally slaves for agriculture and industry. Work camps, like Gulag, I'd reckon.