Accession of Estonia to the USSR (1939-1940)

Soviet border guards on patrol on the Soviet-Estonian border.

Passes Border outfit with a dog.

Apples on the branches.

Women collect the harvest of apples.

Women treated apples border guards, border guards trying to apples.

Those women.

The border guard helps to shake the apple tree, apples fall to the ground.

The border guard helps women to put apples in the box.

People on the boat barge welcomes border, border guards respond to greetings.

Border outfit on the river bank.

All at the barrier on the Soviet-Estonian border in October 1939.

Soviet and Estonian border guards at the checkpoint.

Estonian border guards open the gates.

Red Army troops crossed the Soviet-Estonian border.

The soldiers go to the back of the truck, are tanks.

Estonian police officer on duty.

Estonian border guard looks at the passing Soviet tanks.

Estonians greet the Red Army from the windows of houses.

Soviet tanks cross the border.

Soviet warships go to the Estonian coast.

General view of the port of Tallinn.

The building in Tallinn at night.

Boots marching on the streets of Estonian soldiers.

The soldiers are on the streets of the city at night, passing the armored car.

Fading lights.

People in their apartments at the radio listening to TASS. Estonian workers pull out from the recesses of the banners.

Workers Estonian industrial enterprises are a demonstration of solidarity with the Soviet Union.

Waving flags of the USSR and Estonia.

Soviet and Estonian flags on the tower in Tallinn.

Types of Tallinn and the old fortress.

Soldiers of the Estonian Defence League received uniforms and weapons.

Working Guard on the streets of Tallinn and the port.

The sentries on duty at the entrance to the Bank of Estonia.

The activists dropped leaflets from the truck, people on the streets and raise their reading.

Pro-Soviet demonstration in the streets of Tallinn in June 1940.

Activists throw leaflets out of the truck.

A column of demonstrators on the streets of Tallinn.

General view of the rally on Freedom Square in Tallinn, June 21, 1940 (top).

He speaks from the podium.

Estonian Army soldiers at a rally with a banner in his hands.

Activist gives people the newspaper, people applauded, welcomed the speakers.

Soviet sailors marching through the streets of Tallinn, people look at them, applauding, women waving from the windows and balconies of houses, people welcome sailors from the windows of a passing bus.

Flying Soviet planes, the people watching them.

Estonian peasant trays water and flowers Soviet cavalrymen.

Girls talk with soldiers and commanders, dance with them on the street.

Speech by the Red Army propaganda team, people applaud.

The tower "Long Herman" with waving the Soviet flag.

The deputies are on the first meeting of the newly elected parliament of Estonia.

Soviet and Estonian flags at the entrance to the Parliament.

The deputies in the lobby of Parliament.

MPs during the session.

The new head of the Estonian government Lauristin JH during a meeting listening to a speaker.

Lauristin of the floor.

The deputies applauded, begin to sing the national anthem.

Portrait of Stalin and the Soviet coat of arms in the courtroom.

General view of Freedom Square during a demonstration July 17, 1940 (top).

Types Tallinn (top).

Estonian rural landscape.