History
In the aftermath of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Estonia was left into the Soviet sphere of interest and incorporated into the Soviet Union as a Soviet Socialist Republic. The history of the Soviet Estonia formally begins with the establishment of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1941.
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