In 1939, the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact and Germany.
A week later, the outbreak of the Second World War.
In 1940, Estonia joins the Soviet Union.
55 thousand Estonian mobilized by the Red Army.
In 1941, Germany occupied Estonia.
72 thousand Estonian annals of German armed forces.
In 1944, the Soviet army appears Estonia borders.
The gate was open.
In the yard was a truck.
Mother, father and Kadri boarded the truck,
as if it were the most natural thing in the world.
July 27 Sinimad, Tannenberg Line
- What happened to them? - They were taken to Siberia.
- You could not do anything about it? - The third team! Here Saaresto!
Estonian 20th Waffen-SS Division.
47 Regiment, 3rd Battalion, Headquarters Section 9, the third team ...
They occupied the mountain.
3 teams ...
Damn! The line is dead!
- Tamika back! - Karl!
3. Team!
Roger that! We task!
Come on!
Karl! Are you okay?
- I'm fine. - Come on!
Three years have passed since then.
Three years and 43 days.
I do not feel defective because of what happened.
I'm trying to remember ...
faces, movements, sounds ...
Memories fade and the guilt increases day by day.
It's my cross I have to carry the rest of my life.
Spend!
Infantry 800 meters!
So why are we here?
Fire!
- Replacement! - Bring ammo!
Karl!
Medic! Sjajnas, here!
Pir, come with me! Radik, discover us!
I caught!
Fire!
- Are you a village? - No.
Talu chose me as assistant.
Watch out!
- Who are you? - SS unit, rank and Kjaer.
- Go to bed! - Leave it!
At ease!
- People have ye? - Yes.
Ten were promised and sent two of. And twins.
- What's your name? - Skin. - Anton.
Karl Tamika.
- Relatives are you? - Brothers and sisters.
I immediately noticed that hasonlíttok each other.
Radik. I arrived in the spring.
Sjajnas, corpsman.
Kamenski, a sniper.
Poder, commander of the unit.
Pir, a lone wolf.
Saaresto the commander. Listen to him as Jesus.
These stakes are useless on the front. Put it down!
And the masks may be completed.
Now you can do something useful here.
A letter from the girls, cigarettes, condoms ...
Üljetek it!
Here you go! They are reliable weapons.
The First World War is fought two brothers.
The same bomb killed them.
- There is a horrible smell. - The corpses.
We can not bury them until they became out.
This coming here.
I need an assistant.
- I will be me. - I used to be.
- Radio, show him the place! - Let's go!
Listen carefully here.
Always shoot the géppuskást first.
Take me. I promised my mother to take care of my brother.
- I'm older. - How much?
Half an hour.
You'll be my assistant.
- I wanted to be. - Next time.
This press ...
You stayed for me.
It is not easy to admit,
concealed front, I hid ...
the truth.
I was practically sleepwalking after the deportation of parents.
Just saw a way out:
the fort.
They tried to dissuade ...
Who you're writing?
Girlfriends? Parents?
- What's wrong with you? - I can not sleep.
The boys this first day at the front and you're telling them fairy tales.
Strange feeling.
As if I knew about them.
It's like ... I could see myself.
Discomfort.
Hands up!
I lost secured with.
Saaresto sent to arouse the boys. The Russians are inside the adjacent ditch.
Did you hear?
Lucky man.
Here we are and here the Russians.
They were trapped.
The strike in the 8th Army Corps.
What we strike here. This is a minefield.
Here's a gateway. This lure to trap the Russians.
Are there any questions?
How many can you Russian?
Well, too little.
July 28th
Mine is the first 10 meters. There, next to a tree.
Hold your fire! We Estonians!
Heads down! Here are the Russians!
- Where's the commander? - Died in the fighting.
In Norway we hadtesttõl.
- How many of you? - Four soldiers and two machine-gun.
Colonel Saaresto. Take command.
From here we are going to attack. Be careful!
Roger that!
- There lõszeretek? - Nothing.
- Exactly 4: 00 pm start. - Roger that! 4:00.
- Thank you. What's your name? - Karl.
Me too.
Like Charlemagne.
I XXII. Karl.
Karl Madsen vagyok Roskildebõl.
30 kilometers from Copenhagen.
Karl Tamika. A farm in Tamika. Three kilometers away Vinimajzeatól.
- Germans! - Germans in the trenches!
Let's go, or we're done!
Retreat! Back, fast!
Get down! Grenade!
Are you okay?
Poder, Blow!
15 seconds!
Sjajnas, Pyrrhus was wounded!
They ran to the other exit!
Hold your fire! Hold your fire, we surrender! Hold your fire. ...
August 18th
Squadron, beware!
Hello guys!
I see you have a wash.
We make war.
Estonian soldiers.
The Fuhrer trust our people.
The most difficult task entrusted to us: the Tanenbur ?? ku line.
And we, the local Estonian units, we will not sit idly by.
Years of research have shown,
that we may belong to the Aryan race.
It is an indisputable fact.
Under the auspices of the Greater German Reich bright future awaits us
the big European family.
- Heil Hitler! - I do not think so.
Why?
Heil Hitler!
I thought he gave the Iron Cross, not this crap.
What do I do with this?
- Who can be removed from your ass with it. - Too thick paper.
In this case...
to replace tobacco.
Adolf, lefokoztak?
- Kjaer, drink! - No, I had separated from my brother.
You guys have a drink.
Take that! Signed by Hitler for you.
I have their Fuhrer.
- A woman? - Well ...
- Yes. - Oops ...
- And the mustache? - No.
- You said he was the Führer. - This does not mean that you have a mustache.
- The Fuhrer's mustache same. - He is not!
- Mi a neve? - Erika.
- Bottom is not visible? - No. - From below, from below ...
Here is the bottom part.
- Get out of here! - Get out!
- What on your mind? - Nothing.
Let's have ... fallen comrades!
Dane gave them. It will be good toilet paper or anything.
I got a pack of cigarettes.
Narva remained not only from a Korakas.
The castle ...
A cselédek ...
Each of the past. Every day I forget something.
This was after my father.
The first world war was this cross.
The függetlenségünkért fought against the Reds.
In 1940, they convicted after the June coup.
What are we doing here?
- This is not our war. - Are you sure?
- Not what we started. - Hitler attacked Russia.
And when Finland was attacked? When occupied the Baltic states?
When Poland was invaded? The devil would wipe out!
The Poles were all attacked.
You know what? The red Estonians return home.
Some return home. Not much of a handful.
- Thousands! - The only Soviet propaganda.
What if you meet with Estonian red?
- The compatriots. - The Reds will be no more.
Do not you understand? Millions of them! This is an avalanche. The red plague.
It looks like you do not understand anything!
Higadj it!
- Where are you going? - Replaces brother.
- In the Pacific. - Shut up!
Pöder on!
Kjaer, came to replace.
- What's up? - All is quiet.
He said, "Do not go!"
I could not go there.
My uncle told me that night will be arrests in Tallinn.
I sent my parents.
I did not believe him. Arrests?
Karl, grab your gun! Get ready, we'll go. We are the last, we are waiting for the trucks.
- Where are you? - Germany. That's an order.
I'm staying.
You think yours may return from Siberia, if you stay?
- I do not think. - Then?
Do you know how many I've seen such a thing like you?
Persisting in a week, a month ... and that's it.
What is the purpose of the stay that be?
From that we will be free?
If you want ...
... stay here.
September 19 - "Aster" operation. The Germans are withdrawing from Estonia.
The guys do not want to go to Germany.
Tallinn found a boat and may move to Sweden.
I have connections.
Just do not go Tartu.
- We're done for us. - Shut up!
I could not go home! Back! That's an order!
Good afternoon! There is a Russian ammunition?
- Ours is running out. - Who are you?
Team 2, Virumanskog Battalion, national militia.
Specifically ... what's left of it.
Guys, give them guns!
People ... August, Kaupo, Willem ...
Without the ball they do not reach anything like the shirt without buttons.
Heil Hitler!
Wait!
Where are you going, the Fair?
What are you watching? Help the elderly.
You are calves, not men.
This is a real "Fuhrer".
Mom, look! Flight!
Alert! Alert!
- Take cover! Airplanes! Run in the forest! - Faster! Faster!
Run in the forest!
Get down!
Sjajnas, get down!
Sky in the truck!
Bastards! Help me put out!
Damn!
Start the truck and pick up the wounded. Let's quickly Tallinn.
The Reds will be here anytime.
My sister is there such a baby.
- You can not be the same! - Why not?
- Because it's my Katie. - Oh, yes, of course.
And where is your sister?
- My sister is gone. - And who cares Kati?
Let's go!
Help for people in the truck.
Women, children, girls, onto the truck.
Move!
Wounded to the hospital, refugees Tallinn.
And maybe you'll find a boat.
What?
Damn life! Again, a problem to be solved.
- Do you know where my mom? - I know.
Kati wanted to say something.
Kati will explain once.
Avinurme area
- There are no ditches. - Then we.
Guys, you know what happens here?
Today, September 19, the forest is ours.
Tomorrow, the Russians are coming on September 20 th and sack us.
The next day, September 21 th we disturb the Russkies out of the woods.
And on September 22 th is the forester and kizavar everyone.
"Fritz took my daughter to the city"
"I returned from there like a whore."
"As long as our blood is poured on the Eastern Front,"
"Adolf cheat us."
"Adolf, you bastard cheated us ..."
It's time for the last dinner!
There are potatoes, ham, bread ...
Well better to die un- occupied.
- You know who said that? - No.
- Erich Maria Remarque. - What does a woman know of war?
- Male. ... He wrote a book - "Quiet on the Western."
Shame on a full stomach to die.
Take you, guys! I'll even if it is not enough.
- Why do not you go away? - And where shall we go?
- Who let the cattle? - Not afraid of vörösöktõl?
Not everyone is applied to Siberia.
While we are preparing to fight in the friccek ships fleeing.
Tallinn is released and the brave Estonians
Who's tri-color flag on the tallest building than in 1918.
If you will not run into someone.
Do not talk like that.
I thought then, arrest them ...
and remain in the city.
When the guys said what was happening, I rushed to the train station.
The last train had already left.
I stopped at an intersection and thinking.
Maybe I was right.
Then I went home.
September 20th
Here the forester.
Retreat to the woods! That's an order! Retreat to the woods!
Estonians, not Shoot! That's an order! Hold your fire!
8. Estonian Corps,
249th Division, 917th Regiment, 2nd Battalion, 6th team
Why did you let him out?
- Who ordered a cease-fire? - I am.
The fascists must be destroyed.
We do not have to chase anyone who is firing at us.
These are not children. These fascists.
Vijres captain, looking forward to the report.
The Soviet Estonia's capital Tallinn will be released on 22 September.
This comrade Stalin's orders.
I'm not ready to stand before a military court. Maybe you can.
See who is two of a court martial.
The Kremlin seems to me muffle.
- Blades, call the detachment commanders. - Roger that!
Bury the dead, and hurry up before they get here are the Interior.
I go to the truck. Come after us, you're done.
Let's go!
- Jüri, what do we do with these? - We bury them too.
Guys, what is it? The fascists burying beside ours?
For them the war was over.
Me and byte, Jurek?
Did you know that you killed our men?
His name is Karl Tamika. To környékemrõl.
- Did you know him? - No.
God help him, and rest in peace.
Csináljuk, Jurek.
The soldier of the Soviet Army 31
We heard it was a fierce battle.
These savages they got what deserved.
Guys, come on, have something to eat. Do not hesitate.
- Where did you come from? - I Sirvebõl.
- So far away? - From afar? Prohor came from far away.
- Siberia. The Estonian grandmother. - Marija.
It was a team here yesterday. Where are they?
They were sent elsewhere.
I took part in the War of Independence. How was your unit?
- Estonian Corps. - Estonian Corps? I have not heard about them yet.
- May no memory of anything. - Give the boys smoked ham!
There is enough Husum. Abram!
- It is clear that Germans. - Thank you, granny.
How long will this still hold?
Let's go!
- I feel sorry for them. - Why?
I knew taiga hunters.
And here they are ...
... Raskulacili the camp sights.
This is my mother.
And my father.
- Now comes the big father ... - My grandfather.
- Jakob bácsikám. - Jakob bácsikám.
- And he? - I am here Zara, my sister.
Before the war, Perm.
Now I begin to cry.
September 22, Tallinn
Why szomorkodsz? Come on, we traveled well.
No sin, if a little fun.
Jüri Blades sergeant. Good evening!
- Good evening. - A Tamika citizen living here?
Yes I am. Tamika Aino.
I brought you something.
Come in!
I think about you.
I ran and asked God not to be true.
The truck was standing in the yard.
Kadri mother holding her hand. She did not cry.
Mom whispered something in his ear.
Dad was beside himself.
I've never seen anything like this.
I watched from the bushes as they take them.
Now you know everything.
Can I help you?
You sent this letter?
No, I am one of those who buried her husband.
Karl is my brother. I'm not married.
- How did he die? - During battle.
How does he know?
I have seen.
I watched the fall. He died instantly.
Karl was fun, talkative, cheerful ...
- When our family was taken away ... - Siberia?
... Very different. It wrote down why.
He believed himself to blame for what happened to Mom, Dad and our sister.
And you?
In 1939 he was drafted into the army.
I am seen in June 1940, when the Red Army arrived.
Why do not they fight?
Perhaps we are too disciplined and waited for the command.
Or simply afraid.
Then a few months later, no one knew how, we became the Red Army.
Then the war broke out ...
And his family?
Rudy, Allie, Oskar, Abram, Prohor ... They're my family.
And there will be fewer and fewer.
- It is very similar to it. - Who?
A bátyámra.
The innocent feel guilty, but do not feel the guilt.
You probably hungry ...
This is my uncle's apartment.
Escaped by boat to Sweden just two weeks ago.
The Soviet Army, on March 9 ...
They told us the Germans are there.
In the city there were only women, children and the elderly.
The men at the front.
The children were scared.
I brought home an orphan from the orphanage. I worked there as a teacher.
Did you do some funny drawings. I'll show you. Where can I?
Opening.
For a long time you stay?
To send?
Where?
They said Sarim the island.
We are alone.
- I think I forgave him. - Who?
For those who betrayed the family.
Blades Someone in the family. My brother wrote.
What's wrong?
I remembered how well we lived before the war.
Jüri, I do not know your last name.
Term.
George Tul.
Blades comrade, follow me!
Good day, Comrade Captain.
We were transferred to the war all the way to the big mezõktõl Tallinn.
In our ranks there are still nationalists and enemies of the people.
I know you.
You're young, energetic ... ready for action.
Walking at night in the city.
Ki õ?
- Who? - Oh, Estonia Boulevard.
My sister. My sister visited.
I saw the case file. There is no reference your sister.
Maybe I did not read carefully enough.
I guess I agree.
Report when you become aware of any anti-Soviet campaign,
közkatonától until the officers in.
You can step down!
November 17 Saremaa
Prohor, leave!
Our little barn! I'm back.
The boy got home. Here he was born.
Home found.
My grandmother always said that the country is small, and really the ...
Jüri, go with it!
Well, hosts, bath, food ...
I do not know a soul here. The barn is empty.
Looking for something to eat.
Gain received. Three soldiers. Outside, waiting.
- Let him come in. - Roger that!
Comrade Sergeant, are applying for!
I am your commander, Jüri Blades. At ease!
Confess into the German army fought Which one?
Sinimaea n-fought. Home escaped when the Germans retreated.
- They were the Russians. - Me too.
Dezertáltam.
Forget the past. Just to survive, who can keep his mouth shut.
- Is that clear? - Yes!
Allie!
Red Army!
- Where have you been? - Potatoes in the oven.
- Give them hungry. - Eat as much as you want.
A cellar full of potatoes, do not let the mice.
Allie! You find out something about your family?
Sirvaste in all farms were destroyed. The people were taken to Germany.
The war will soon be over, everyone returns.
My house is done, I'm alive.
Here, the attack on this farm fricceket.
Before the artillery will shoot the place.
The fricceket surrounded by minefields. Here we go then the tanks behind.
- Why do not we go up front? - Wants to be the first platoon.
The Frick prepared the boats on the shore. They have to destroy them.
- Where is our red fleet invincible? - Hunting Kronstadtnál.
Comrade Stalin. Let's drink!
Damn, Jüri, I completely forgot. The Kremlin called.
Again!
Comrade Commander, Jüri Blades sergeant, and then appeared!
Close the door!
Sit down!
A gyõzelemre!
- Arrive at Gain? - Yes.
Three of them.
- You checked them? - Yes.
You come from a good family. Always you make the right choices.
As the father at the time.
- Still not a party member? - Not yet.
Maybe it's better this way. More trust in you.
We can also begin. I'm sending you a course.
You get a star, then company commander also can be.
We get along with each other.
We already have a company commander.
Vijres captain.
It is like a radish. In addition to red, white inside.
It is better to keep an eye on is Vijres.
Do not spoil your life, Jüri.
November 19
The last line of defense German army burst into the peninsula
Minefields on both sides! Go into the tank heels!
Getting up and follow up the tank!
Come on, keep going!
Come back! There is a minefield!
Take cover behind the wall!
Prohor!
Oskar!
Abram, Kjaer, to me!
Prohor, Abram, you're coming with me!
Oskar, te Allie-val!
Allie ...
Get out! Hands up!
Hold your fire! We do not have guns!
Do you think Allie From this arise?
What is that? You can not sleep?
He does not go out of my mind the guy.
... I took the last letter to his sister.
Did you tell him the truth?
You Did not Know?
Why is it so crap?
Do not worry, Jurka. You did not kill, but the war.
God will forgive you.
This will help you to forget.
November 22.
Just a little bit and Estonia ours. Come on come on!
Jüri, the Political Department inquired.
We're neck-deep in the shit. We reach out to old age.
I just wanted to bring the boys back home, and I to them?
- Stop! Hands up! - Hold your fire, we Estonians!
Silence!
Do lõjetek!
Get out! But hands up!
Slowly!
- Your name? - Hard Hirvo.
- Korod? - 16.
- Volunteers are you? - No.
The Germans caught us at the airport.
- They wanted to take us to Germany ... - But we wanted to go home.
Jüri, grab people! Shoot down the enemy.
Comrade Captain ...
They're just kids.
Soviet citizens who have gone over to the enemy,
állítandóak immediately before firing squad.
- Blades sergeant, execute the command! - Surrendered.
Jüri, execute command!
I can not shoot them.
LOJ!
Shoot, and perform all the relatives camp.
They were afraid? Great.
The Soviet authorities also need to be safe.
Vijres captain, execute the command
The second phase, forward!
Guys, go home!
Did you hear that? Take off your uniform and go home.
One thing bothers me.
What if I do not take it to the letter?
I do not ever see you?
After the war, perhaps the church.
- Good afternoon. - Good afternoon.
... A.Tamika live here?
Yes, I am Aino Tamika.
- I was hoping I go to the right place. - Good afternoon!
Come in.
Who knows, maybe we meet again.
- How did you sleep? - Very well.
I could not look you in the eye, not to tell the truth.
It must begin at the beginning.
I confess that I Jüri Blades, the Soviet Army soldier
brother killed during the fighting.
I was not the courage to tell this person.
I had only you.
Forgive me if you can ...
For those dedicated to those who died for independence
Translated by: zoliapu71