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The statement that Estonia never had a credible fascist movement is not true. The Vabadussõjalaste Liit was one of the most popular policical movements in Estonia in the 1930s. Their candidate, Larka, would have been elected president in a free election but Päts with the help of Laidoner declared a dictatorship to stop the VL from taking power. Larka and other VL leaders were imprisoned or exiled to Kihnu after they tried to take power in their own counter-coup. Larka's important role in the War of Independence was then totally erased from the history books.
Some older Estonians I have spoken to believe that with Larka as president, Germany would not have allowed the USSR to ocupy Estonia as the country would have been seen as an ally.
Some older Estonians I have spoken to believe that with Larka as president, Germany would not have allowed the USSR to ocupy Estonia as the country would have been seen as an ally.
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0I am inclined to go along with Peter's argument, since a lot of facts have emerged concerning President Päts. It must not be forgotten that as a young lawyer in the mid 1920's with a fluent grasp of Russian, he was asked to (and accepted) to lead a Russian Import firm in Estonia, receiving a handsome salary in return (some 4,000 kroons). It is presumed that Päts' friendship and trust of the Russians began at this time, and his Orthodox faith simply softened the final blow both to Päts personally and Estonia as a nation. In due course he also started the Harju Pank of Estonia which assisted General Franco's Government during the 1930's. Larka was simply short-shrifted because he could have strongly undermined Päts personal interests, as history records a continuing trust of the Russians (on the part of Päts) up to and including Estonia's capitulation to Soviet forces. The only recompense that Päts supporters can come up with is the fact that at least loss of life was kept at a minimum. But I also believe that Larka could and should have won those fateful elections of 1934, and maybe we wouldn't have had to put up with Soviet occupation in the first place.
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0I was surprised that some of the Estonian republic generation were hostile to my comments on Artur Sirk, the demagogue, who was assassinated as a national enemy.
Shortly I will publish an eyewitness account of the inept fascists, who lead the Vapsid movement.
Larka was a simpleton in the political context to align himself, with one of the "kaikamehed'.
if you see some street thugs beating up a Jew, would you join them, if you are born after 1980 (collapse of Communism).
If the answer is in the affirmative, then you are classifying yourself alongside the neo-fascists and that gives the neo-stalinists a perfect excuse to agitate for your removal. By whom? Mother Russia, of course!
In response to whether Hitler would have saved Estonia, you need to read the policy documents for the population movements that Himmler was to initiate for the resettlement of the Germans, the Estonians were to be moved north, they were to be replaced by the Dutch and Germany was to expand to incorporate Holland populated by 100 % Germans.
So that gives you an idea of the value Hitler placed in fellow fascists. What am I going to do about the people who were angered by the ridiculing of Sirk?
Shortly I will publish an eyewitness account of the inept fascists, who lead the Vapsid movement.
Larka was a simpleton in the political context to align himself, with one of the "kaikamehed'.
if you see some street thugs beating up a Jew, would you join them, if you are born after 1980 (collapse of Communism).
If the answer is in the affirmative, then you are classifying yourself alongside the neo-fascists and that gives the neo-stalinists a perfect excuse to agitate for your removal. By whom? Mother Russia, of course!
In response to whether Hitler would have saved Estonia, you need to read the policy documents for the population movements that Himmler was to initiate for the resettlement of the Germans, the Estonians were to be moved north, they were to be replaced by the Dutch and Germany was to expand to incorporate Holland populated by 100 % Germans.
So that gives you an idea of the value Hitler placed in fellow fascists. What am I going to do about the people who were angered by the ridiculing of Sirk?
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