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The Baltic states regained de facto independence in 1991 during the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Russia started to withdraw its troops from the Baltics starting with Lithuania in August 1993. However, it was a violent process and Soviet forces killed several Latvians and Lithuanians. [20]
20 sie 2024 · On August 20, 1991, an attempted coup by Communist hardliners in Moscow precipitated a succession of events in Estonia that, on the same day, led to a resolution of the Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR to declare the country's independence from the collapsing Soviet Union.
3 mar 1991 · The negotiations about the departure of the Soviet troops started with the independence of Estonia on September 20, 1991, but difficulties arose with the fall of Soviet Union in December and the creation of the Russian Federation.
On 6 September 1991, the State Council of the Soviet Union recognised the independence of Estonia. Estonia began moving away from Russian influence, rejecting Russia's economic model in favour of an open market and joining the European Union and NATO in 2004.
20 sie 2017 · Despite — or perhaps movitaved by — the presence of Soviet forces in the capital, that night, on August 20, 1991, at 11:02 p.m., the Supreme Council of the Republic of Estonia voted in favor of the Resolution on the National Independence of Estonia.
Soviets sent tanks into Estonia to stop the Estonian call for independence. Protesters from Interfront (a group of Russians living in Estonia who opposed Estonian independence) also threatened and harassed the Estonians who demanded independence.
The Estonian SSR was nominally established to replace the until then independent Republic of Estonia on 21 July 1940, a month after the 16–17 June 1940 Soviet military invasion and occupation of the country during World War II.
