1941年，苏联将爱沙尼亚人流放至西伯利亚，企图让他们在那里饿死。

This is one of those things that somehow is almost completely unknown in the western world and even in big parts of the former Warsaw pact. I stumbled upon this during my history studies for university. I asked my parents about this, who were raised in one of these countries and they enver heard about either. Same with other events like the massacre in Katyn. It's only now after the invasion of many people became aware of this.

This wouldn't be called "deportation" Deportation is the act of removing a foreigner from a country. The Estonians would have been native to their lands. This is "ethnic cleansing" or "forced displacement"

It's crazy how much suffering the russian has causes their neighbours the last 100+ years. (Edit: +)

One of the many reasons why estonians hate the russians.

This is the future, if that bald clown is not handled with care

On Christmas Day 1939, my great grandmothers entire family was put on one of the cattle trains from South-eastern Poland. No means of heating themselves, no toilet. Their heads fucking froze to the walls while they slept. Plenty died. The Russians laughed at them when they got off near Novosibersk and collapsed. They wrote plenty of letters just asking what they had done to deserve deportation and enslavement, never got a response. Ironically, the German invasion was what forced the Soviets to cooperate with Britain for aid and release them. Hitler probably fumed that he wouldn’t get the chance to kill and enslave them himself.

And people wonder why the Baltic states are so uptight about Russian expansionism.

I see the tanky/ruSSia apologists are already in full swing here.

I remember when Russia was our enemy (a couple of months ago)

This is why the west should never drop the ball when it comes to Russian aggression

It's not much talked about because modern day russia still denies these things happened and have never even apologized for it so just small countries who were victims of this remain to tell the story. One story about all this that always stuck with me was about a woman who was put on the train while pregnant, she gave birth on the train and the child died before they were let off the train.

My grandfather, along with his older brother and mother, was among those deported. He was only six years old when they came and took them. My great-grandfather, a postal worker, was executed. My great-grandmother sadly passed away shortly afterward. My grandfather remained in a Siberian orphanage until his early teenage years when his aunt bribed a Red Army soldier with homegrown potatoes to bring him back from Siberia. Everyone had family members who went through this. I had several teachers who were also deported as children along with their families. Later in life, my grandfather became a total badass—he worked on the first Soviet computers, traveled the world, taught at universities in three different countries, and was highly respected in his field. To us grandkids, he always seemed larger than life—and the grandfather who took us sailing.

Siberia in the best of conditions has a lot of large predatory animals. That must have been fucking horrific for them. Can you imagine doing that to people? Especially children... insane what humans are capable of

People are being systematically starved to death this minute. Nothing has changed.

Shocking how much people dont know this, and yet we are always called russiaphobes, well i sure do wonder why, sending prayers that this doesnt happen again from 🇱🇻

They were as bad as the Germans were. And are still

This happened to Polish people as well, my grandpa was one od them. Being a Polish soldier he was deported to Siberia to die in the cold. He survived the -40c winters and eventually came back. He was a special man and a true hero and source of inspiration, and an artist as well, something that he passed on in genes on to me, carrying his legacy.

wonder why we dislike russia so much

Russia is still a terrorist state. Nothing changes

My grandfather told about how one day in march one third of the class didnt show up to school. Teachers wept quietly and kept on teaching knowing they could be next.

My grandma is Estonian. Her family suffered the soviet's deeds first-hand. It's astonishing to hear her talk about what the russians did to her brothers, and then have people argue that the soviets weren't as bad as the Nazis.

One of my grandparents got sent to Siberia from the Finnish border. He escaped and lived in Estonia until the end of his days, working on the northern border maintaining a lighthouse. So what? What outsiders don't know is that under Soviet occupation the whole shoreline was barbed wired and patrolled around the clock. Finland was the closest path to freedom, just over the sea, a trip that could be made on a makeshift raft. Ports were military outposts, garrisons with 24/7 patrols. Most soldiers were brought in as recruits from all over the union as part of Russification. None of the military personnel spoke Estonian of Finnish. So my grandpa, a runaway, lived and worked right under their noses and nobody gave him out. They did not understand that he had a strong Finnish accent as he only started learning Estonian after he ended up in Estonia. The accent is very prominent if you know either language.