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ESTONIAN PARLIAMENT CONDEMNS CRIMES OF NAZI, SOVIET OCCUPIERS |
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By a vote of 74 to one, parliament adopted a statement on 18 June
condemning the crimes of the Soviet and German occupation forces in
Estonia from 1940 to 1990. The initial draft of the statement, which
only dealt with the crimes of the Communist parties of the USSR and
Estonia, was submitted more than a year ago. Its adoption was delayed
because of presidential elections in which two former Communist Party
members were among the leading contenders. The draft was later amended
to include Nazi crimes as well. The only dissenting vote came from the
leader of the Estonian Social Democratic Labor Party, Tiit Toomsalu, who
said the text was too soft on Nazi crimes and incorrectly "condemned
20-30 years of positive social development." The statement does not
condemn individual former Communist Party members but rather the
communist regime and its repressive organs, the KGB and NKVD. It
stresses that the Soviet and Nazi occupation forces repressed or
deported more than one-fifth of the total population of Estonia.
19. June 2002
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