Fire, flood or disaster · 25.03.1949
March deportation
On 25 March 1949, in Operation Priboi, Soviet authorities deported more than 20,000 people from Estonia, about 2.5% of the population, in a few days; over 92,000 were taken from the three Baltic states. Most were women, children and elderly people from farm families labelled 'kulaks' or relatives of Forest Brothers. They were exiled to Siberia, where thousands died. The deportation broke resistance to forced collectivisation. Victims of communism are remembered at the memorial at Maarjamäe in Tallinn, where the pin is placed.
Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today
Eesti keeles
25. märtsil 1949 küüditasid Nõukogude võimud operatsiooni Priboi käigus mõne päevaga Eestist üle 20 000 inimese, umbes 2,5% rahvastikust; kolmest Balti riigist viidi kokku üle 92 000 inimese. Enamik olid kulakuteks tembeldatud talude või metsavendade pereliikmed – naised, lapsed ja vanurid. Nad saadeti asumisele Siberisse, kus tuhanded surid. Küüditamine murdis vastupanu sundkollektiviseerimisele. Kommunismiohvreid mälestatakse Tallinnas Maarjamäe memoriaalis, kuhu märk on paigutatud.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Estonian_history ↗