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Sunday, June 25, 2023
255-256
Numbers 255 and 256 look considerably older than the other recruits and paunchier as well.
This leaves me wondering if a couple of NCOs got in on the photo sessions.
The Great Depression caused havoc in Estonia and by the early '30s, a very liberal constitution was effectively nullified when the country became a one-party state under a nationalist government. After the War of Independence (from the Soviet Union), the USSR threatened the country on a number of occasions, attempting a full invasion at one point, which was successfully repulsed. It could have been one of these scares that caused regular call-up into the army, which perhaps explains their older age.
The Great Depression caused havoc in Estonia and by the early '30s, a very liberal constitution was effectively nullified when the country became a one-party state under a nationalist government. After the War of Independence (from the Soviet Union), the USSR threatened the country on a number of occasions, attempting a full invasion at one point, which was successfully repulsed. It could have been one of these scares that caused regular call-up into the army, which perhaps explains their older age.
ReplyDeleteThanks for that history lesson, Julian. It provides a very plausible context for the inclusion of these men.
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