President of the Republic of Estonia Konstantin Päts (arrested) with statesmen and their wives. The photograph was taken in Tallinn before 1940
A reception held by Foreign Minister Friedrich Akel in Tallinn
Anniversary of the Kalev battalion in 1938. The officers' wives in the photograph became widowed; some of them were deported, some fled from the red terror to the West. First row, second from the left: Maj. Robert Kald's (arrested and executed) wife Alide. Leo Õispuu's private collection
Hired workers of a large farm in Pihtla parish in the island of Saaremaa with their employers on July 8, 1937. The farmer was arrested on charges under Article 58-13 of the penal code and died in the Sevurallag prison camp in the Sverdlovsk region in 1943. His wife and five children aged between three and eleven were deported to the Kirov region in 1941. Saare farm private collection
Participants in the first training camp of the Estonian Women's Defence League Auxiliary Corps in Viljandi County, June 8-10, 1939. Participation in such training camps was regarded as active counterrevolutionary activity punishable under article 58 of the penal code
Maritime Days in Tallinn on June 5-6, 1937. From KGB's point of view, Marine Scouts was a fascist youth organisation
Members of Kaitseliit before 1940. Did they die a natural death?
A Kaitseliit review in Tallinn on June 23, 1938 inspected by Gen. Johan Laidoner, the commander in chief of the defence forces. All those uniformed men could have been punished under a suitable subclause of Article 58 for counterrevolutionary activity carrying a penalty from 10 years' imprisonment to execution
A police parade in Tallinn on Nov. 12, 1938 to mark the 20th anniversary of the Estonian police force and its Tallinn-Harju prefecture reviewed by Gen. Johan Laidoner. The Communist Party and KGB regarded former policemen as persons especially dangerous to Soviet power. Only very few policemen managed to escape repression
Participants in the first meeting of the council of the Tallinn Technical University on July 7, 1936. Seated from the left: Prof. V. Paavel (fled to the West), K. Koljo from the Ministry of Education (fled to the West), Minister of Education Col. A. Jaakson (apparently arrested), Rector Prof. P. Kogermann (arrested), Prorector Prof. E.Maltenek (died before the occupation), Prof. O. Maddison (dismissed); standing from the left: Prof. J. Nuut, Prof. A. Parts (fled to the West), Docent R. Livländer (fled on a ship torpedoed by Russian troops), Prof. E. Jaakson (fled to the West), Docent A. Borkvell, Prof. O. Martin (fled to the West), Prof. L. Jürgenson and Docent K. Grimm (moved to Riga). Unloyal wise men also posed a danger to Soviet power
Photograph from the Museum of the Tallinn Technical University