According to Estonian philosopher/poet Jaan Kaplinski, anti-Russian sentiment developed in Estonia in 1940, during the first Soviet invasion and occupation of the country. Kaplinski sees this beginning as resulting from Nazi propaganda, which the Estonians endured during the German war-time occupation of 1941 – 1944.
Others attribute most of the negative feeling towards Russian as a direct derivative of Soviet/Russia repression during the first occupation, including mass deportations to Siberia, the liquidation and removal of the government, wide purges of most other officials, the destruction of the military, the sequestering of private property and the overall repression of the indigenous Estonian population.
These resentments obviously did not subside during Soviet authoritarianism and….
(Pikemalt saab lugeda 21. 08.2020 Eesti Elu paber- ja PDF-/digilehest.)