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 The launching of the passenger boat Vanemuine in 1965 reopened the traffic between Estonia and Finland that had been disrupted by WW II |
The period following Stalin's death — which marked the end of the brutal terror and the start of Nikita Khruchev's reform plans — gave many a hope of building 'humane socialism'.
Along with the return of the rehabilitated deportees, some communication with abroad resumed. A special role here belonged to relations at grass root level with the Finns, who are related to Estonians by a similar language: smuggled jeans and Western pop music, the ability to watch Finnish TV, and the ideas that permeated across the border turned Estonia into a 'Soviet West'. |
The launching of the passenger boat Vanemuine in 1965 reopened the traffic between Estonia and Finland that had been disrupted by WW II