The Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic, also known as Soviet Estonia, was a de facto administrative subunit of the Soviet Union, covering the occupied and annexed territory of Estonia in 1940–1941 and
According to the 23 August 1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania were divided into German and Soviet "spheres of influence" (German copy)
People massacred by the Soviet NKVD on 8 July 1941 in Tartu, Estonia
Soviet-organised rally in Tallinn, July 1940
Johannes Vares, Karl Säre, and other leaders of Estonian SSR, August 1940
The Soviet Union re annexed most of the territory of the Baltic states in its 1944 Baltic Offensive during World War II. The Red Army regained control over the three Baltic capitals and encircled retr
A Soviet propaganda poster celebrating "liberation" of the Baltic states in 1944
Soldiers of the Red Army entering the territory of the Lithuanian SSR
The National Committee of the Republic of Estonia, headed by Jüri Uluots, attempted to re-establish Estonian independence in 1944.
The Yalta Conference in 1945. Seated from left Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin.