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To eradicate the guerrillas' main supply base as well as the staunchest pillar of Estonian national identity still intact — peasant smallholders — another mass deportation was carried out in 1949. In the period 1940-49 as a whole, Estonia lost almost one fifth of its population through killing, deportation and flight to exile. |
| Again, people who had often been given only one hour to pack found themselves in Siberia with virtually none of the items essential for everyday life. Many did not make it through the first winter |
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Commemoration of the deportation at Ülemiste railway station |
