Monday (March 25) marks the 75th anniversary of the 1949 deportations which saw over 20,000 Estonians forcibly deported to Siberia by the Soviet Union – almost 3 percent of the population. The majority of deportees were women and children under the age of 16.
From 6 p.m. candles were lit on Tallinn's Freedom Square and Tartu's city council organized a similar event.
In total, over 90,000 people were banished from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania in March 1949 and sent to Siberia in cattle cars. A map of deportation sites can be seen in the image below.
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