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The Naissaar Island is situated in the Gulf of Finland, 15 kilometres away from Tallinn.
Naissaar used to be a favourite spot for pirates and smugglers during the earlier times.
Naissaar was used as a fortified naval base also by the Republic of Estonia in 1918-1940.
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  Soviet Republic of Naissaar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Soviet Republic of Naissaar (longer name: Soviet Republic of Soldiers and Fortress-Builders of Naissaar) was a revolutionary state that during the First World War controlled the Estonian island of Naissaar (Swedish: Nargö; German: Nargen) in 1917-1918 for a brief period after the October Revolution and prior to the German occupation.
The Republic of Estonia formally declared independence on 24 February 1918, only to be forcibly occupied and annexed by the German Empire.
On 26 February 1918 the government of Naissaar evacuated from the island.
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 Soviet Republic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Soviet republic, a republic ruled by soviets (workers' councils), may refer to one of the following:
Soviet Republic of Naissaar, on an island in the Baltic Sea (1917-1918)
Galician Soviet Socialist Republic (July 9, 1920 - September 21, 1920), created in Soviet occupied territory during the Polish-Soviet War.
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 Communist state at AllExperts
They resulted in the Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic in 1918, the Bavarian Soviet Republic from November 1918 until May 3 1919, the Slovak Soviet Republic in 1919, the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919, and the Persian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1920 to 1921.
The Soviet practice of making it illegal to quit one's job, to hire a dissident, or to hire relatives, is regarded by the critics as tantamount to slavery.
In the Soviet Union scientific research was at a high level, as illustrated by the space program and the fact that one third of the world's scientific literature was written in Russian.
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 VIETNAM encyclopedia : Cultural Information , Maps, VIETNAM politics and officials, VIETNAM History. Travel to VIETNAM
Furthermore, the historical states of the Hungarian Soviet Republic, Slovak Soviet Republic and Bavarian Soviet Republic were short-lived revolutionary entities that are difficult to define as Communist states, because the status of non-Communist political parties and movements within them remained unclear.
They resulted in the Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic in 1918, the Bavarian Soviet Republic from November 1918 until May 3, 1919, the Slovak Soviet Republic in 1919, the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919, and the Persian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1920 to 1921.
In the Soviet Union scientific research was at a high level, as illustrated by the space program and the fact that one third of the world's scientific literature was written in Russian.
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 Communist State Encyclopedia @ 216.92.11.26 ()   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
With Soviet military aid, Mao Zedong's Communist Party of China emerged victorious in the Chinese Civil War and established the People's Republic of China in 1949.
See also Republics of the Soviet Union for various Soviet republics, some of them short-lived, which were eventually included into the USSR.
Conquest, Robert (1987) The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine.
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 Soviet Realism - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Soviet Realism
In Soviet Russia, as in other totalitarian countries (run by one party), the government controlled all artistic organizations.
Composers were to produce ‘vivid realistic music reflecting the life and struggles of the Soviet people’.
After the death of Stalin in 1953, the official line became less harsh, but personal expression still remained difficult and dangerous (in 1974 a show of unofficial art in a field near Moscow was broken up with bulldozers and water-cannon), and socialist realism remained technically in force until the break-up of the USSR in 1991.
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Soviet Military Heritage More than 500 Soviet military units and bases were located in Estonia.
In order to decommission the reactors and take them out of Estonia in a way which would be safe for both public health and the environment, it is necessary to perform comprehensive expert assessment of all stages of the decommissioning project documentation and the actual execution of decommissioning.
Being aware of the difficult economic situation in Russia and the other areas of the Former Soviet Union, we have sought assistance from neighbouring countries and the CEC to provide for a quick and effective solution to the problems connected with the waste depository and reactors at Sillamee and Paldiski.
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 Former countries in Europe after 1815 - Wikipedia Mirror   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Between August 21 and August 25, the territory of the Republic was divided between Hungary and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, as decided by the Treaty of Trianon of 1920.
The Republic of Užice was a short-lived state that existed in Autumn 1941 in the western part of Nazi-occupied Serbia.
The Republic was established by the fighters of the Partisan resistance movement and its capital was in the town of Užice.
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The Republic of Estonia was reconstituted under conditions of occupation: in it an organization, known world wide as the KGB, continues functioning; a Russian occupation army is still in place; Russia denies the legitimate border of Estonia and subjects it to a brutal pressure through scores of different means.
During the Republic of Estonia, in 1939, 93,000 Russians (8,2% of the overall population) lived in Estonia.
Today it is registered again in the Republic of Estonia and as long as the Estonians remain the rulers in their own land we can rest assured that it will not again be forbidden.
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 Tallinn  Estonia  - Naissaar- Island day trip with a bang - In Your Pocket   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Naissaar literally mean’s ‘women’s island,’ a name that an 11th-century legend tells us comes from the beautiful maidens who at one time inhabited the island along with a group of hideous, beastly men.
Nowadays Naissaar is a nature reserve and a popular day-trip destination for all kinds of travellers, beauties, beasts or otherwise.
Naissaar has two lighthouses, one on the northern and one on the eastern shore.
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 Itching for Eestimaa: Ai ai ai   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
For the child of people who moved here in the Soviet years, there is no explaining that he needs to learn the language, respect the culture, and not go around talking about the superiority of all things Russian.
It mattered for all Estonian males when they had to join the Soviet army, but fluency in Russian language is not a forte amongst the younger Estonians I have met, even the teenagers in Tallinn, where about 40-odd percent of people speak it as a native language.
Soviets vandalized ALL of these (maybe there were 1 or 2 exceptions) in 1940s.
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 Estonian Institute www.einst.ee
The ancient areas of Swedish settlement in Estonia are Ruhnu Island, Hiiumaa Island, the west coast and smaller islands (Vormsi, Noarootsi, Sutlepa, Riguldi, Osmussaar), the north-west coast of the Harju District (Nõva, Vihterpalu, Kurkse, the Pakri Peninsula and the Pakri Islands) and Naissaar Island near Tallinn.
Soon the Soviet occupation was replaced by the German one, the men who had avoided the first enlisting were taken now into the German army, and many of them decided to take refuge in Sweden.
During the Soviet occupation the islands were used for bombing training and all the old buildings are in ruins.
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 Estonia Travel Information | Lonely Planet Destination Guide
The Soviet reoccupation of 1944 ushered in a period of Stalinism highlighted by the collectivisation of agriculture and the killing or deporting of thousands of Estonians.
In the late 1980s Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev gave substance to their hopes and a mixture of pent-up bitterness and national feelings fuelled mass demands for self-rule.
Soviet military traces remain (the island was closed until 1995), with an old army village, gun batteries, empty mines and deep-sea mine anchors.
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The traditions and education from the old German forestry (19th century) school and from Soviet forestry still exist at different levels in forestry and in the mentality of foresters.
In the old city of Tallinn, there is quite a bit of background architecture that can be distracting at first glimpse, as the façades of the medieval houses have been redesigned according to later styles of fashion.
After the signing of the 1920 Tartu peace treaty between Estonia and Soviet Russia, the Baltic Germans had to adapt to the role of a national minority in a democratic state.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Former countries in Europe after 1815
In 1920 it was renamed the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic, and in 1922 it joined the Transcaucasian SFSR of the Soviet Union.
The Republic of Gumuljina, was a short-lived republic in Thrace established in 1913 after Bulgarian forces retreated at the end of the second Balkan War.
In 2003 as a result of compromise of the Republics of Montenegro and Serbia, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was trasnformed into the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
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 Axis History Forum :: View topic - Hidden origins of the Winter War
Since the Soviet Union did not have access to any kind of radar at the time, these circumstances were important when selecting the place for a barrier across the Gulf.
Soviets understood the importance of these forts fully: the Koivisto's Saarenpää battery received 325 000 kg:s worth of naval artillery shells and over 2000 aircraft bombs, weighing 500 000 kg, plus over 1000 light bombs.
So to be able to apply the naval theories of sea denial the Soviet navy had to base her self west of the gulf of Finland or at least at the mouth.
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 Hiiumaa
It was annexed by the Soviets in 1940, by the Germans in 1941 and by the Soviets again in 1944.
It was then a part of the Soviet Union until its collapse in 1991.
In 1918 - 1940 Hiiumaa was part of the Republic of Estonia, then until 1991 occupied by the Soviet Union.
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 Tallin - Viimsi and the islands | Footprint Guides
General Johan Laidoner, born in Viimsi in 1884, was commander-in-chief during the War of Independence, when the fledgling republic had to fend off the German Landeswehr and the Red Army; the Estonians were assisted by a British squadron, which succeeded in immobilizing the Bolshevik Navy.
There are three marked trails on Naissaar: the military trail, around the north of the island (red); the southern historical trail (blue); and the central nature trail (green).
Covering 20 ha at the heart of Naissaar, this secret mine factory once supplied sea mines to the whole of the Soviet Union and was the main reason the island was off limits to civilians throughout the occupation.
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Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Soviets of Estland (Eestimaa Nõukogude Täitevkomitee esimees)
November 28 (November 15) 1917 the Maapäev refused to recognize the new Bolshevik rule and proclaimed itself the supreme legal authority of Estland.
The Republic of Estonia formally declared independence on 23 February 1918, only to be forcibly occupied and annexed by German Empire.
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 Communist state information - Search.com
Republic of Cuba (Cuban Revolution in 1959, socialist state declared in 1961); Communist Party of Cuba
annexed to the USSR in 1944 (as Tuvinian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic)
Conquest, Robert (1987) The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine.
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 Alar Schönberg
The minority policy of the Republic of Estonia is founded on Article 2 of the 1918 Declaration of Independence Manifest kõigile Eestimaa rahvastele, or Manifesto to all the peoples of Estonia.
In the 1930s the population of Estonian Swedes was approximately estimated 8.000 and they had mostly settled on the islands of Vormsi, Osmussaar, Naissaar, Ruhnu and Pakri, and in the parish of Noarootsi and in the region of Vihterpalu and Kurkse on the mainland.
One of its aims was to unite all the Swedish in Estonia and function as a pillar of ethnic continuity.
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 Soviet Republic - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Soviet Republic - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Chinese Soviet Republic also known as the "Jiangxi Soviet" (1931–1934) — led by Mao Zedong's faction of the Chinese Communist Party
This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Soviet Republic contains research on
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 Soviet Republic information - Search.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Any of the Republics of the Soviet Union.
Soviet Republic of Naissaar, on an island in the Baltic Sea (1917-1918)
Galician Soviet Socialist Republic (July 9 1920 - September 21 1920), created in Soviet occupied territory during the Polish-Soviet War.
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 Soviet_republic Information - Online Prescription Medication Directory
Limerick Soviet (15 - 27 April 1919) established by Limerick trade union council during a general strike against British military rule.
Soviet Republic of Naissaar, on an island in the Baltic Sea (1917 - 1918)
The Soviet republic (system of government) implemented in the USSR and other soviet republics.
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 Estonia - Europe2u - your resource for Europe travel information, Austria - Belgium - Bulgaria - Croatia - Cyprus - ...
The pact between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany in 1939 determined Estonian history for decades.
A year of Soviet rule was followed by the Nazi invasion in 1941.
When Pirita was to host the yachting events, image-conscience Soviet authorities built the entire coastal Pirita highway, the TV Tower, an extensive beach house and the Olympic Yachting Centre for the occasion.
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 Stalin tries to conquer Finland 1939-1948
All Soviet prisoners taken at the early stage of the war testified that their commanding officers had told them that the whole war was a formality.
The Soviet Prime Minister simply declared that such an alliance would be nothing else than an attempt to break the Peace Treaty and would be directed against the Soviet Union, which could not avoid drawing certain conclusions….
The gradual sovietization of the Baltic States during the summer of 1940 were called "gratifying facts" by one of the leaders of the SPFSU and it was pointed out that the same might occur in Finland.
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 Help.com - communist state   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Most of the Communist states in the world were established in the aftermath of World War II in Eastern Europe, either in countries which were liberated from the Nazis by the Soviet Red Army, or in countries where Communist-led partisans succeeded in driving out the Nazis and taking power themselves.
Later, the Vietnam War ended with the defeat of South Vietnam by the North Vietnamese Army and the establishment of a unified Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 1975.
Even though Hong Kong since 1 July 1997 and Macao since 20 December 1999 are Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China (communist state), Hong Kong and Macao are not communist areas.
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