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🔒March deportation of 1949🔒

In the early morning of 25 March 1949, the second major wave of deportation from the Baltic Republics, operation "Priboi", carried out by MGB began, which was planned to affect 30,000 in Estonia, including peasants.

Over 8,000 managed to escape, but 20,722 (7,500 families, over 2.5 percent of the Estonian population, half of them women, over 6,000 children under the age of 16, and 4,300 men) were sent to Siberia during three days 🚂

Deported included disabled people, pregnant women, newborns and children separated from their parents

Many perished, most have never returned home 💔

Foto: Vabamu

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