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==Emigration== | ==Emigration== | ||
*When Estonia was invaded by the Soviet Army in 1944, large numbers of Estonians fled their homeland on ships or smaller boats over the Baltic Sea. Many refugees who survived the risky sea voyage to '''Sweden and/or Germany''' later moved from there to''' Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States and/or Australia.''' | |||
*Also, with the June deportation of 1941 and March deportation of 1949, the Soviet Union forcibly transferred tens of thousands of Estonians to '''Siberia'''. Some of these refugees and their descendants returned to Estonia after the nation regained its independence in 1991. The Russian Empire displaced a fairly high number of Estonians into exile, maybe the number of descendants (the 3.5 million doesn't include E'''stonian sub-groups: the Chudes, Livonians, Setos and Voros''' in neighboring lands of '''Russia, Latvia and Lithuania'''. There is no way to know the corrected number of Estonians, unless to count 100,000 dual nationals in the former USSR or the number of expatriates in the EU countries (esp. Finland). | |||
==Records of Estonian Emigrants in Their Destination Nations== | ==Records of Estonian Emigrants in Their Destination Nations== | ||