no disrespect Bill, but I suggest you read a bit of estonian history, perhaps even come to Estonia, or the Baltics, Poland or even Russia for that matter to understand what the deportations were about. i would say that your comment left on an article that is to gather to remember tens of thousands of people, in which a large portion included women and children who created no crimes and many who did not survive their conditions, is slightly uneducated and disrespectful.

peace to you Bill. whoever you are.

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While Germany was severely punished and fully denazified, Estonia was considered a Nazi victim, rather than a willing collaborator with the Nazis. The Jerusalem Post noted “the active participation of numerous Estonians in WWII era crimes and the support of much of the local population for the Nazi occupation. There was no anti-Nazi underground or resistance movement of any kind in Estonia.” “Stalin’s repressions” were a form of de-Nazification less severe than that carried out by the Americans in occupied Germany. While Anglo-Americans caused the death of millions of Germans, while the French killed probably some 50,000 of their collaborators, Stalin’s denazification was not thorough enough. After 1991, the Nazi elements in Estonia made their come-back.
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On 4 April 1919 the Jewish Chronicle: "There is much in the fact of Bolshevism itself, in the fact that so many Jews are Bolshevists, in the fact that the ideals of Bolshevism at many points are consonant with the finest ideals of Judaism."