* This was where the Russian
fighter jets passed which Estonia hyped about. Nato member states only
include undisputed borders. Stenskär (Swedish meaning 'stony islet' aka
Vaindloo) is a tiny disputed island in the Finnish bay. Peter Klevius
thinks 'Vaindloo' is a form of the Swedish 'vindlä' meaning protected
from the wind because it's only 300m wide but 800m long in North-South
direction against storms in the Baltic Sea.
Did Zelensky let repair and refuel Russian decoy drones and send them to Poland*? And why is Estonia complaining about NATO "air space incursion" over disputed** territory under internationally agreed*** Russian air control?
* The range of
drones used in the 9 September 2025 attack on Ukrainian military targets
did not exceed 700 km which made it impossible for them to have reached
Polish territory, and Russia was willing to engage in professional
discussions with the Polish MOD to understand what had taken place. But
the Polish representative stated that Polish territorial integrity has
been purposely violated by Russian drones on an unprecedented scale, and
Poland knew that it was not a mistake. Peter Klevius comment: Indeed,
this fits perfectly as a desperate Ukrainian false flag operation!
**
The border treaty was signed in 2005, but Estonia added a mention of
the Tartu Peace Treaty to the legal text of the already ratified treaty.
Now, as expected, Russia withdrew its own signature.
*** The St.
Petersburg FIR (Flight Information Region) is located around disputed
(Estonia changed already signed and ratified border agreement hence
making Russia withdrawing its own signature) Vaindloo Island, and air
traffic services there are provided by Russia, not Estonia, under
agreements ratified by the ICAO (International Civil Aviation
Organization).
The
territory of Estonia called Svenska Estlan (Swedish East land) belonged
to Sweden for 150 years before it 1710 became Russian territory until
the 1920s after German military heleped a fascist-aristocratic led
minority to take over during the revolutionary chaos in Russia.
The
first self-governance elections in Estonia took place March 16, 1917.
Of the 198 delegates elected, 58 were Bolsheviks, 87 were Social
Revolutionaries, 29 were Mensheviks, and 22 were non-partisan.
On
24 September 1939, with the fall of Poland to Nazi Germany and the USSR
imminent and in light of the Orzeł incident, Moscow declared Estonia as
hostile to the Soviet Union.
Moscow therefore demanded that
Estonia allows the USSR to establish military bases and station 25,000
troops on Estonian soil for the duration of the European war. The
government of Estonia accepted and signed the corresponding agreement on
28 September 1939.
The pact:
Estonia granted the USSR
the right to maintain naval bases and airfields protected by Red Army
troops on the strategic islands dominating Tallinn, the Gulf of Finland
and the Gulf of Riga;
The Soviet Union agreed to increase her
annual trade turnover with Estonia and to give Estonia facilities in
case the Baltic is closed to her goods for trading with the outside
world via Soviet ports on the Black Sea and White Sea;
The USSR and Estonia undertook to defend each other from "aggression arising on the part of any great European power";
It was declared: the pact "should not affect" the "economic systems and state organizations" of the USSR and Estonia.
There is no consensus in Estonian society about the decisions that the leadership of the Republic of Estonia made at that time.
When
Soviet troops marched into Estonia the guns of both nations gave mutual
salutes, and bands played both the Estonian anthem and the
Internationale, the anthem of the USSR, at the time.
Similar demands were forwarded to Finland, Latvia and Lithuania. Finland resisted, which initiated the Winter War.
The
war ended with the signing of the Moscow Peace Treaty in March 1940, in
which Finland ceded 9% of its territory to the Soviet Union. This could
have been avoided by a less hawkish Russophobic attitude, because the
end deal was essentially the same as the one Russia asked for in the
first place and very lucrative for Finland which not only got most of
its war debt waived but also got the perfect trading partner because
Finland was already a world leader in wood processing (e.g.
Enso-Gutzeit) and other technologies which benefited from a stable
supply of raw material etc. from Russia, and longterm trade stability.
The first population loss for Estonia was the repatriation of about 12,000–18,000 Baltic Germans to Germany.
In
1941 the Soviet Union was pressured to sign the Ribbentrop Pact due to
its failed attempts to secure a collective security agreement* with
Britain and France against Nazi Germany, leaving it vulnerable to German
aggression. The pact provided a temporary measure of security by
ensuring non-aggression between the two powers and allowed the Soviets
to expand their influence in Eastern Europe.
* The main reason
was that UK wanted Germany to attack and weaken Russia, so that it and
Germany could be defeated when Germany also had lost its military edge.
