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If the signing actually took place on Feb 23, then why have we always celebrated Estonian Independance on Feb 24?
K. P'ats's birthday is Feb 23rd... but that's trivial.
K. P'ats's birthday is Feb 23rd... but that's trivial.
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0One is not speaking of the signing of the Proclamation of Independence, but rather of its being made public. The Manifesto was publicly announced in Tallinn - the political seat of the country - on the 24th of February, 1918, but by then, Tallinn had been beaten to the punch by Parnu, where, on the previous evening at 8 p.m., barrister Hugo Kuusner read the text to the public. February 24 as Estonian Independence Day was something that was subsequently agreed upon by politicians, and has now become a deep-seated tradition. No need to alter the date, but it is useful to know that Estonians had actually already learned of their return to independence (after many centuries in foreign thrall) on the previous evening, not Feb. 24 per se.
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0Many people may not know that the short-lived Kerensky government was run by the head of the St Petersburg Masonic lodge. There may have already been connections with Estonia at the time, since freemasonry played an important albeit secretive role in establishing Estonian independence. Without Kerensky at the helm of Russia, it is plausible to argue whether Estonia was ever in with a chance at biting the apple of freedom. With the shoe on the other foot, it was the freemasons who undergirded the bolshevik attacks on Estonia in 1944 and secured the much needed bases from which to dislodge 22 years of glorious freedom in the tiny Baltic state. Masonic history is hardly even reckoned with as a public vice and national traitor of Baltic interests.
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0Päts was an active Freemason, clearly having links to both the brotherhood in Finland as well as Russia. It is surprising that the Masonic "tilt" to the left went as far as it did, providing ideal circumstances for a communist takeover.
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0something of interest
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