Estonia's Anti-Soviet Resistance Examined at the Museum of Occupations
The Forest Brothers, so called as they hid in the woods during their fight against the Soviet regime from the mid-1940s until the beginning of the 1950s, are the subject of a new exhibition at the Museum of Occupations, in Tallinn.
As with many chapters in Estonia's history, the little-documented struggle against the Soviet occupation after World War II, has not been fully comprehended by many. The exhibition at the Museum of Occupations, found on the foothills of Toompea, aims to change that.
Anyone unfamiliar with the fact that over 15,000 locals took to the forests in armed resistance and that 2,000 Estonians died in battle after WWII, should consider visiting the museum.
Estonians and foreigners alike should know that although Estonia capitulated at the government level, an armed and organized group of people did fight back, with the last Forest Brother at large dying around 10 years before re-independence.
The exhibition runs until the end of October.
