Jüri
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The great exodus to the west in 1944 was a mass escape of Estonians from the invading Red Army from Estonia in the late summer and autumn of 1944. The Great Escape has also been called as T... Read allThe great exodus to the west in 1944 was a mass escape of Estonians from the invading Red Army from Estonia in the late summer and autumn of 1944. The Great Escape has also been called as The Boat Escape, because they went mostly by sea, by boat. About 80,000 people fled Estoni... Read allThe great exodus to the west in 1944 was a mass escape of Estonians from the invading Red Army from Estonia in the late summer and autumn of 1944. The Great Escape has also been called as The Boat Escape, because they went mostly by sea, by boat. About 80,000 people fled Estonia, of whom 6-9% died on the way. The reason for the escape was fear. The year of terror b... Read all