Moscow signals concern for Russians in Estonia

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117. Excuse me, but Stalin forcibly deported many Baltic citizens to Siberia

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Many died along the way, or in labor camps. Few returned. My own mother and grandmother barely escaped capture by Stalin's brutal troops in Estonia. Had they been caught, I would not exist. What the Soviets did to the people of the Baltics is horrible.

Wikipedia: "More than 200,000 people are estimated to have been deported from the Baltic in 1940–1953.[citation needed] In addition, at least 75,000 were sent to Gulag.[citation needed] More than 10% of the entire adult Baltic population was deported or sent to Soviet labour camps.[78] In response to the continuing insurgency against Soviet rule,[79] more than 20,000 Estonians were forcibly deported either to labour camps or Siberia (see Gulag).[80]"

Estonians want to remain a free, democratic society, not ruled by the Russians or any other nation.

AND they have a lot of PAST EXPERIENCE of suffering under the boots of the Russians