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![]() ![]() Similarly, the executive was organized in the form of executive committees ("workers councils") of administrative units. Nominal "people's power" was subordinated to Soviet policymaking bodies or Party committees. Upon seizing power, the USSR imposed a strict, centrally planned one-party rule. Soviet regime as the enforcer of law and order in the Baltic state. Concurrently, an Estonian territorial NKVD (Soviet secret police) was established by the Unlike the majority of other countries subjected to communism and totalitarianism, the forces that enveloped Estonia following World War II were not national in origin but, rather, occupying regimes forced upon Estonia under agreements signed by the Great Powers.Īfter Estonia's annexation by the USSR in 1940, the Soviet Union immediately demolished all of Estonia's legal systems and security structures. The path toward glasnost and perestroika introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985, following years of stagnation under the successive administrations of Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, and Konstantin Chernenko, spawned the beginning of Soviet collapse and spelled the end of the occupation of Estonia. ![]()
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