Tallinn Trip – Estonian History Museum (Soviet Troops Out Now)

ОККУПАЦИОННЫЕ ВОЙСКА ВЫВЕСТИ К СРОКУ!

Which means ‘occupation troops out by the deadline’. Estonia declared independence in August 1991 and there was a campaign called PAKA, meaning ‘be gone’, which started soon after. It actually took three years for the Russian troops to finally leave, the date of 31 August 1994 is still commemorated today. In August 1991, there had been 40,000 members of the Russian military in Estonia across 570 different military facilities. It took them longer than it should have done to go, but Boris Yeltsin finally sped the process up. They had initially claimed that they needed to be there until 2002, then they compromised with 1997, but the Estonian people held protests and created handwritten posters such as this.