Comments by "Põhja Ohakas" (@EEX97623) on "Russia Suffers Massive Oil Depot Strike in Engels" video.
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Estonia wanted to be a founding member of NATO in 1949 but we were occupied by the Soviets under Molotov-Ribbentrop. We never accepted occupation, and it was a deception under threat of invasion by force. We had resistance fighters, Forest Brothers, til the 70s. We lost 20% of our population to deportation to gulag,executions, "disappearances". We were russified and had to change our names to be more russian, we weren't allowed our language and culture. Our land was destroyed and polluted. We aren't Slavic people, we're Finno-Ugric with Baltic tribe roots, speaking in a language group twith Finland that has no resemblance to russian. We held our national song festival throughout Soviet occupation and from the 1980s wee started The Singing Revolution, which sparked The Baltic Way with 2 million Baltic people joining hands over 675km from Tallinn through Riga to Vilnius in 1989. The world press took attention, this began the process for our independence.
I'll be clear in saying we have no true history with the colonial neighbour other than invasion and occupation, and want nothing to do with the miserable wasteland.
Greetings from Estonia.
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