Yestonians was a derogatory epithet for historically ethnic Estonians brought from Russia to Estonia after World War II to staff the political structures of Soviet Estonia with cadres loyal to Moscow.
Karl Vaino, a noted "Yestonian," in 1987
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