Estonia has been repeatedly attacked by German aggressors. As early as the beginning of the 13th century, German feudal lords, together with Swedish and Danish feudal lords, invaded and captured Estonia. For many centuries, the Estonian people fell under the feudal, national and ecclesiastical oppression of the German conquerors, were deprived of political independence and the possibility of self-determination. But the persistent struggle of Estonians against the invaders did not stop. More than once, peasant uprisings broke out on Estonian soil. Everything that our people had to experience under the yoke of the German feudal lords was imprinted in the memory of generations, in memories and legends, in folklore. New times have brought new experiences, new observations. The era of national awakening has arrived. Thanks to the growth of the Estonian press and the activity of the most progressive forces of the national movement, all this experience has become more clearly understood. The German aggression against our native land was again committed during the fierce struggle between imperialist Germany and the forces of the October Revolution. In 1918. The Baltic States were again occupied by German troops, who stayed there for about a year. The centuries-old irreconcilable contradictions between the German invaders and the indigenous population were no secret to the top of bourgeois Estonia. However However, on the eve of World War II, the Estonian bourgeoisie did everything possible to conceal these contradictions, to divert the study and knowledge of the history of its people on the wrong path. This was due to the fact that the authorities of bourgeois Estonia were increasingly following in the wake of the policies of Hitler's Germany. None other than the commander-in-Chief of the army of bourgeois Estonia, General I. Laidoner, in one of his speeches delivered in the Estonian city of Tartu at the end of January 1938, proclaimed a kind of "basic concept" of Estonian ... Read more