Era il giugno del 1940 quando i Sovietici occuparono l'Estonia, una piccola nazione sul litorale orientale del Mar Baltico. Il paese allora aveva una popolazione di 1.134.000, il novanta per cento dei quali era di etnia estone. Il partito comunista locale contava appena 150 membri. In un anno i Sovietici fecero sentire la propria presenza uccidendo e deportando 21.000 "nemici della popolo": erano essenzialmente uomini, militari, ufficiali di polizia, imprenditori, sacerdoti, attivisti politici, cittadini prominenti e le loro famiglie. Le chiese e le comunità religiose perseguitate, private property confiscated, even groups of boys near the church, were dissolved. Thirty-three young Estonians forced the Red Army, only to be posted on the front. Finally, the last act, with a single list elections, under intimidation, the Communists turned Estonia into a Soviet republic. Threatened with arrest and deportation, many Estonians were forced to seek refuge nalla forest. It was the beginning of a movement called the "forest brothers" (in Estonian "metsavendlus). When they reached the new occupant of 1941, the Nazis, people flooded the streets 
with scenes of jubilation. The German troops were greeted as liberators against the brutal tyranny of communists. The country was immediately set up a provisional government allied with Germany and the Axis nations participating. When the Nazis retreated in the fall of 1944, spurred on by the advance of the Red Army, the Estonians found themselves again in the dramatic decision to follow the ally or stay in Italy to fight the invader. The division Estland, framed in the German army, began his journey towards the ultimate defense of Berlin, whereas in Estonia the Estonian independence movement had established their command relevant authorities. The new interim government, called the National Committee of the Republic of Estonia, was short-lived: Three days, ousted dal ritorno dell´Armata Rossa. In uno scritto, il partigiano anticomunista Thoomas Läär, descrive "come l´Unione Sovietica ha trasformato l'Estonia in una base militare enorme, in cui parecchi clienti locali (i comunisti) possono disporre di 100/150.000 soldati sovietici per compiere saccheggi, sopraffazioni, soprusi ed appropriazioni indebite in nome del popolo. Inutile ogni resistenza concreta, ogni tentativo di scontro diretto, con un rapporto di un soldato estone per ogni quaranta sovietici". Come nel 1940, i Sovietici, cominciarono immediamente la loro opera di "democratizzazione coatta" con arresti e deportazioni di massa in Siberia. Tra i molti sfortunati anche il ministro della pubblica istruzione del tempo Arnold Susi ritrovatosi nello stesso accampamento di gulag dello scrittore Alexandr Solzhenitsyn. Come costume staliniano si tennero elezioni fasulle per instaurare sotto il volere del popolo un nuovo stato comunista. "Fighting from the Forest for Freedom" scritto da Marek Chodakiewicz spiega come l´obiettivo dei comunisti, dei sovietici in generale, "fosse in primo luogo quello di spazzare via tutte le tracce del mondo precedente, dell´antica tradizione secolare anseativa, cominciando con il distruggere i monumenti e le opere d'arte, cancellando ogni forma del passato perfino cambiando i nomi delle vie e delle città". Ciò era l'inizio della seconda occupazione sovietica. Ancora una volta l´oscurita delle foreste hanno celato "parecchie decine dei migliaia di persone." Erano infatti circa 15.000 i fratelli della foresta nel sud del paese; forse altrettanti hanno combattuto nel nord del paese, attorno alla capitale Tallinn 
. Laar sostiene che una stragrande maggioranza dei partigiani anti-Comunisti erano ragazzini, per lo piu´provenienti dalle famiglie piu´povere e contadine. Fra questi in Estonia viene sovente ricordato, un leggendario comandante delle "formiche di Kaljurand", conosciuto come "la terribile formica". Anche le donne inoltre hanno combattuto accanto alla guerriglia, in particolar modo durante la seconda fase di lotta di resistenza. Nelle città dell'Estonia, erano i cosiddetti "fratelli urbani," o piccoli gruppi politici e paramilitari, ad operare azioni di attacco, sabataggio or raids against Soviet military targets. The groups were composed largely of young, mainly motivated by the side of the Germans: young scouts, high school students and university students. Initially, the Estonian partisans were active in large unit cohesion attacks Soviet transport, supplies of the Red Army, freeing the prisoners, leading shares of expropriation, executing agents, collaborators and spies of the Communists. Most of the units of the rioters had entered spontaneously in resistance. About five militiamen were subordinate to the Estonia's largest guerrilla organization, the League for the armed resistance (Relvastatud Voitluse Liit-RVL). La centralizzazione dello sforzo militare in campo aperto, seppur senza termini di reale confronto con l´Armata Rossa, ha avuto i suoi relativi lati di efficacia soprattutto grazie alla coordinazione degli attacchi dei partigiani. Una resistenza scardinata tuttavia dal rischio sempre più intensificato di infiltrazione degli agenti comunisti. L´esercito di resistenza estone RVL ed altre organizzazioni favorevoli all´indipendenza hanno sempre operato anche al termine della guerra nella speranza dell´imminenza dello scoppio della terza guerra mondiale. Sbagliavano ed entro 1949, la polizia segreta sovietica, il NKVD, si era infiltrata smantellando l'ordine centrale del movimento di ribellione. Contro i guerriglieri anti-Comunisti i Sovietici non lesinarono forze schierando intere unità dell'esercito rosso, della milizia ed della polizia segreta NKVD, oltre alla collaborazione attiva della popolazione russa e dagli estoni filo-comunisti. I piu´feroci nelle proprie azioni di repressione (e prevenzione) erano i gruppi della Difesa della Popolo (Rakhvakaitse). Queste unita´ erano composte esclusivamente da estoni, tuttavia sotto la totale obbiedienza della polizia di sicurezza sovietica. Miliziani che godevano dell´aiuto di un gran numero di informatori locali, di collaboratori, di agenti e "di intellettuali di sinistra particolarmente ambiziosi." Al tempo, il numero di collaboratori con i comunisti ha addirittura superato il numero effettivo dei ribelli. Il terrore staliniano aveva avuto its effect. An entire nation was frightened by the communists who systematically applied the principle of collective responsibility. As punishment for aid to the partisans, or suspicious, the farms were burned at the stake and the villagers were deported to Siberia. The Communists had also dismantled the largest rural villages and given plots of land to small farmers, thus temporarily reducing the hostility of the village towards the Soviet oppression. Even when in 1949 the same land was again confiscated the peasants themselves during the brutal collectivization campaign, people reacted passively with an attitude of resigned helplessness. Immediately after, at the request of Stalin, the local communists drew up the list of "enemies of the people" kicking off a new wave of deportations to Siberia. During this time another 20,000 Estonians were interned in the Gulag, judged solely on suspicion of helping the Brothers of the Forest. This was a fatal blow to the fortunes of the uprising of the masses. The West, the victorious powers, were not considered for Estonia in spite of repeated letters of protest sent by the exiled Estonians. Western governments were interested in the case of Estonia, for the convenience of time and, in the early fifties, during the Cold War. But it was too late. Only Estonian Finnish helped the rebels, working the joints of the border. Even before the Soviets destroy the RVL, and other partisan organizations, the brothers of the forest had changed the tactics of their struggle. They began to publish newspapers and brochures, to paint slogans on the walls of the city: "The war in Estonia will be long!" and "Death to the Bolsheviks." The anti-Communist partisans began to dig their bunkers bases in the forests near the villages and friends. Decreased with wit the number of shares in the open field, referring to the guerrilla activities and actions aimed at addressing the small firefights are open in case of self-defense. The actions of the guerrillas said Estonia is still with the technique of terror operated by the Communist secret police and local collaborators. Läärä believes that the "insurgents" have been killed by the Communists, not for ideological reasons, but for the official role was in employment. For example, on his arrival in a new presidium of the Soviet security in a village of woodcutters, a young local policeman asked what he could expect from the brothers of the forest. The farmers said: "It depends on what kind of human being you are." As the policeman turned out to be calm, refusing any persecution of the local community and largely ignoring the rebels, the fu'permesso to live. After the 1950 shooting
with scenes of jubilation. The German troops were greeted as liberators against the brutal tyranny of communists. The country was immediately set up a provisional government allied with Germany and the Axis nations participating. When the Nazis retreated in the fall of 1944, spurred on by the advance of the Red Army, the Estonians found themselves again in the dramatic decision to follow the ally or stay in Italy to fight the invader. The division Estland, framed in the German army, began his journey towards the ultimate defense of Berlin, whereas in Estonia the Estonian independence movement had established their command relevant authorities. The new interim government, called the National Committee of the Republic of Estonia, was short-lived: Three days, ousted dal ritorno dell´Armata Rossa. In uno scritto, il partigiano anticomunista Thoomas Läär, descrive "come l´Unione Sovietica ha trasformato l'Estonia in una base militare enorme, in cui parecchi clienti locali (i comunisti) possono disporre di 100/150.000 soldati sovietici per compiere saccheggi, sopraffazioni, soprusi ed appropriazioni indebite in nome del popolo. Inutile ogni resistenza concreta, ogni tentativo di scontro diretto, con un rapporto di un soldato estone per ogni quaranta sovietici". Come nel 1940, i Sovietici, cominciarono immediamente la loro opera di "democratizzazione coatta" con arresti e deportazioni di massa in Siberia. Tra i molti sfortunati anche il ministro della pubblica istruzione del tempo Arnold Susi ritrovatosi nello stesso accampamento di gulag dello scrittore Alexandr Solzhenitsyn. Come costume staliniano si tennero elezioni fasulle per instaurare sotto il volere del popolo un nuovo stato comunista. "Fighting from the Forest for Freedom" scritto da Marek Chodakiewicz spiega come l´obiettivo dei comunisti, dei sovietici in generale, "fosse in primo luogo quello di spazzare via tutte le tracce del mondo precedente, dell´antica tradizione secolare anseativa, cominciando con il distruggere i monumenti e le opere d'arte, cancellando ogni forma del passato perfino cambiando i nomi delle vie e delle città". Ciò era l'inizio della seconda occupazione sovietica. Ancora una volta l´oscurita delle foreste hanno celato "parecchie decine dei migliaia di persone." Erano infatti circa 15.000 i fratelli della foresta nel sud del paese; forse altrettanti hanno combattuto nel nord del paese, attorno alla capitale Tallinn 
. Laar sostiene che una stragrande maggioranza dei partigiani anti-Comunisti erano ragazzini, per lo piu´provenienti dalle famiglie piu´povere e contadine. Fra questi in Estonia viene sovente ricordato, un leggendario comandante delle "formiche di Kaljurand", conosciuto come "la terribile formica". Anche le donne inoltre hanno combattuto accanto alla guerriglia, in particolar modo durante la seconda fase di lotta di resistenza. Nelle città dell'Estonia, erano i cosiddetti "fratelli urbani," o piccoli gruppi politici e paramilitari, ad operare azioni di attacco, sabataggio or raids against Soviet military targets. The groups were composed largely of young, mainly motivated by the side of the Germans: young scouts, high school students and university students. Initially, the Estonian partisans were active in large unit cohesion attacks Soviet transport, supplies of the Red Army, freeing the prisoners, leading shares of expropriation, executing agents, collaborators and spies of the Communists. Most of the units of the rioters had entered spontaneously in resistance. About five militiamen were subordinate to the Estonia's largest guerrilla organization, the League for the armed resistance (Relvastatud Voitluse Liit-RVL). La centralizzazione dello sforzo militare in campo aperto, seppur senza termini di reale confronto con l´Armata Rossa, ha avuto i suoi relativi lati di efficacia soprattutto grazie alla coordinazione degli attacchi dei partigiani. Una resistenza scardinata tuttavia dal rischio sempre più intensificato di infiltrazione degli agenti comunisti. L´esercito di resistenza estone RVL ed altre organizzazioni favorevoli all´indipendenza hanno sempre operato anche al termine della guerra nella speranza dell´imminenza dello scoppio della terza guerra mondiale. Sbagliavano ed entro 1949, la polizia segreta sovietica, il NKVD, si era infiltrata smantellando l'ordine centrale del movimento di ribellione. Contro i guerriglieri anti-Comunisti i Sovietici non lesinarono forze schierando intere unità dell'esercito rosso, della milizia ed della polizia segreta NKVD, oltre alla collaborazione attiva della popolazione russa e dagli estoni filo-comunisti. I piu´feroci nelle proprie azioni di repressione (e prevenzione) erano i gruppi della Difesa della Popolo (Rakhvakaitse). Queste unita´ erano composte esclusivamente da estoni, tuttavia sotto la totale obbiedienza della polizia di sicurezza sovietica. Miliziani che godevano dell´aiuto di un gran numero di informatori locali, di collaboratori, di agenti e "di intellettuali di sinistra particolarmente ambiziosi." Al tempo, il numero di collaboratori con i comunisti ha addirittura superato il numero effettivo dei ribelli. Il terrore staliniano aveva avuto its effect. An entire nation was frightened by the communists who systematically applied the principle of collective responsibility. As punishment for aid to the partisans, or suspicious, the farms were burned at the stake and the villagers were deported to Siberia. The Communists had also dismantled the largest rural villages and given plots of land to small farmers, thus temporarily reducing the hostility of the village towards the Soviet oppression. Even when in 1949 the same land was again confiscated the peasants themselves during the brutal collectivization campaign, people reacted passively with an attitude of resigned helplessness. Immediately after, at the request of Stalin, the local communists drew up the list of "enemies of the people" kicking off a new wave of deportations to Siberia. During this time another 20,000 Estonians were interned in the Gulag, judged solely on suspicion of helping the Brothers of the Forest. This was a fatal blow to the fortunes of the uprising of the masses. The West, the victorious powers, were not considered for Estonia in spite of repeated letters of protest sent by the exiled Estonians. Western governments were interested in the case of Estonia, for the convenience of time and, in the early fifties, during the Cold War. But it was too late. Only Estonian Finnish helped the rebels, working the joints of the border. Even before the Soviets destroy the RVL, and other partisan organizations, the brothers of the forest had changed the tactics of their struggle. They began to publish newspapers and brochures, to paint slogans on the walls of the city: "The war in Estonia will be long!" and "Death to the Bolsheviks." The anti-Communist partisans began to dig their bunkers bases in the forests near the villages and friends. Decreased with wit the number of shares in the open field, referring to the guerrilla activities and actions aimed at addressing the small firefights are open in case of self-defense. The actions of the guerrillas said Estonia is still with the technique of terror operated by the Communist secret police and local collaborators. Läärä believes that the "insurgents" have been killed by the Communists, not for ideological reasons, but for the official role was in employment. For example, on his arrival in a new presidium of the Soviet security in a village of woodcutters, a young local policeman asked what he could expect from the brothers of the forest. The farmers said: "It depends on what kind of human being you are." As the policeman turned out to be calm, refusing any persecution of the local community and largely ignoring the rebels, the fu'permesso to live. After the 1950 shooting repression. The Soviet security troops continued to pursue small units of the brothers of the forest and the various partisans. They were hunted like wild animals and bunkers on fire. According to Soviet sources, before 1947, 15,000 forest brothers were killed, arrested, or hiding in the forest under the false pretext of an amnesty. Since 1950 almost 10,000 new anti-communist rebels "are are neutralized." Many other supporters have fallen victim to traps, to kill treacherously. Many of the forest brothers were treated with vodka poisoned by farmers corrupted by the Security Police. The last major battles were fought by rebels in 1956. The revolt broke out in a big way, thousands of brothers emerged from hiding in the forest. Who would be handed over to Soviet authorities would be granted amnesty. Many followed the offer. Still others decided the way to fight illegal migration, remaining in the forest, refusing to accept the Soviet yoke. Choice led a simple life among the animals, mushrooms and wild fruits. The secret police, the KGB, had not forgotten them. For example, in 1965, his brother Raymond Molder was arrested in a police raid after two KGB men wounded during a clash. The last of the legendary rebel Saab County Voruuma was attacked by the KGB in 1978. Saab committed suicide to escape arrest. This last act of anti-communist Estonia occurred thirty-three years after the end of World War II. But it was not conclusion of the fight. The author of the book shortly before he himself is said the best evidence of this. Laar was one of the leading dissidents in Estonia, in the '80s, he founded the Estonian tradition. Pupils clandestine organization and erudite young people about the true history of modern Estonia. They roamed the countryside, to collect oral testomonianze about the brothers of the forest. The young activists of the society, with their old friends who were veterans of the anti-Communist guerrilla warfare, have formed the core of contemporary Estonian independence movement. Together, they participated in demonstrations general started in 1988. They were the first to wave the flag banned by the Russians in Estonia free. They formed the party of Estonia's national independence. In 1991, Estonia has taken advantage of internal and international situation favorable to regain its independence. It was a long struggle: there are now less than Estonians in Estonia in 1939. According to Laar, Estonians have found the strength to fight for so many decades of persecution by the force "with which they have established links between the past and the present, the preservation of collective memory." The tradition against communism.
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