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Soviet Estonian leaders at the parade on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Great October Revolution. In the middle Arnold Rüütel, chairman of the Supreme Soviet, Karl Vaino, First Secretary of the Communist Party and Bruno Saul, Chairman of the Council of Ministers. In the 1970s and 1980s the Soviet system not only forced people to attend the parades, but also tried to lure them there with the so-called ‘little parcels from Brezhnev’, containing items that were only rarely seen in shops, from coffee to women’s tights.
October parade
Author(s): Endel Tarkpea
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Source: ETA Archives
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Soviet Estonian leaders at the parade on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Great October Revolution. In the middle Arnold Rüütel, chairman of the Supreme Soviet, Karl Vaino, First Secretary of the Communist Party and Bruno Saul, Chairman of the Council of Ministers. In the 1970s and 1980s the Soviet system not only forced people to attend the parades, but also tried to lure them there with the so-called ‘little parcels from Brezhnev’, containing items that were only rarely seen in shops, from coffee to women’s tights.
