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A fact from Soviet deportations from Estonia appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on June 21, 2007.

Contents 1 Structure and references 2 Spelling Errors? 3 Interwiki 4 Deportations were like a family picnic 5 Estonians declared as class enemies

[edit] Structure and references

I have restructured the article, and created articles for June deportation and March deportation. Unfortunately, the exact structure of these articles' interrelations is not clear for me at the moment; the {{see}} links should probably become into some more asymmetric pairs.

One approach that I can think of would be a regional distinction: the subarticles would concentrate on general aspects of the time-delimited deportations while this particular article would discuss general aspects of the geography-delimited deportations. Digwuren 17:02, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Is it worth expanding to cover Latvia and Lithuania as well? After all, these Soviet operations affected them at the same time, it would be unreasonable to have three different articles for this. Colchicum 10:45, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

BTW, I know nothing about Estonia's copyright law, but if this is free, it would be good here.Colchicum 10:58, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Spelling Errors?

I replaced the word entenced with sentenced in the legal status section. I just wanted to bring this to your attention in case entenced was correct.

Thank you. Indeed, 'sentenced' is the correct word. Digwuren 08:54, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Interwiki

No other article on this subject, even in Estonian Wikipedia?Xx236 08:45, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

et: is unfortunately half-dead. There is et:Küüditamine#Küüditamised Nõukogude okupatsiooni ajal, though. DLX 08:53, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Link for future: Economist: Name them and remember. -- Sander Säde 19:48, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Deportations were like a family picnic

English, Estonian. So lovely that friendly Soviets gave Estonians a chance to have a picnic in Siberia. -- Sander Säde 11:46, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Estonians declared as class enemies

Aadu Must has claimed to have found a Politburo directive from between 1937-1939 declaring Estonians along with some other nationalities as class enemies. If this is correct it would give additional and even more sinister meaning to the deportations. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.196.196.42 (talk) 19:58, 28 April 2008 (UTC)