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Actually, in early 1920s communist-infiltrated surrogate organisations
won some 5% Riigikogu seats regularly. By 1940, the number of
'believing' commies in Estonia had probably diminished so greatly that
the *number* of such individuals was hardly more than a couple of
times more than the ECP membership figure - which was around 150. But
after the ''June revolution'', there was no shortage of cutthroats
either ...

M.

On 15/06/2009, Digwuren <digwuren@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 20:42, Christian Suciu
> <christiansuciu@yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>> It's also true that a handful of young Communists committed acts of
>> sabotage and were executed. But: the Communist Party itself was tiny (a
>> few hundred members, most of whom were in jail or in Moscow)
>>
>
> It's a common thread.  In the early years of Soviet Union, Communist parties
> outside USSR were relatively small and mainly viewed as potential terror
> cells to be supported so they could topple the "bourgeois regimes".  Only
> after WWII managed USSR to prep foreign Communist parties up to be
> significant players.
>
> In 1924, one of those cells attempted to overtake Estonian government.  It
> was over in eight hours.  After WWII, Soviets erected a monument (by now,
> dismantled) to the participants depicting six or seven figures, and people
> used to joke that it's the only monument in the world to depict all
> participants of a revolution.  Strictly speaking, it was incorrect, I think
> there were around a hundred participants plus some fellow travellers, but
> Communist support base *was* that low.  Even out of those hundred, most were
> specifically carted in from Russia, and when the revolution was over, most
> of the ones that escaped capture fled to Russia.  Jaan Anvelt, a principal
> Communist activist in Estonia, left Estonia then, and was eventually purged
> by Stalin.  Every revolution will eat its children, as they say.
>
> In 1940, when Stalin needed to recruit local people to sow terror among the
> population, he didn't attract them by ideology but offer of raw power.
>  *That* did the trick: he got a best selection of thugs and cutthroats.
>
> --
> Andres Soolo
>

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