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Deporting people from Sapase Farm in Viljandi County: the care the Soviet authorities took to conceal their crimes proves how well they were aware of their criminal deeds. Only rarely, as in this photograph, were the perpetrators caught in the act — and even then the secretly taken picture had to wait for nearly 60 years to be made public.
Mass deportation, 1949
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Source: Museum of Viljandi
Deporting people from Sapase Farm in Viljandi County: the care the Soviet authorities took to conceal their crimes proves how well they were aware of their criminal deeds. Only rarely, as in this photograph, were the perpetrators caught in the act — and even then the secretly taken picture had to wait for nearly 60 years to be made public.

