The “ Aisargs ” in Latvia and the “ Veterans ” in Estonia.
The same anti-Soviet policy and preparation for an attack on the Soviet Union which the Lapuans had been preparing in Finland over many years was also being pursued in Latvia and Estonia by various organisations of a military Fascist type. In Latvia the most important organisation of its kind was the so-called “ Aisargs ” ; this organisation had over 50,009 active members and was led by the most reactionary political party in Latvia, “ The Peasant Union,” with Karl Ulmanis at its head.
In Estonia a similar role was played by a Fascist group with an orientation towards Germany—the so-called “ Union of Veterans,” with Sirk at its head. Its anti-Soviet activities were manifested in constant provocative speeches against the U.S.S.R. and in systematic preparation for a Fascist coup in Estonia. On December 8, 1935, the Estonian Government discovered a plot of the “ Veteran’s Union,” all the threads of which, as was shown by the investigation, led to Finland and Germany. The head of the “ Veteran’s Union,” Sirk, after his arrest in 1934, had succeeded, as a result of the quite evident negligence of the authorities, in fleeing to Finland wherefrom he directed the preparation for the rising.
The connections of the Fascist Organisation of Estonia were not confined to Finland and Germany alone. In the summer of 1931 one of the leaders of Estonian Fascism, General Lille, spent his “ vacation ” in Rumania precisely at the time when a Conference was taking place there of representatives of the General Staffs of the States on the borders of the U.S.S.R. Thus Estonia, just as Finland and Latvia, was an active link in the anti-Soviet chain which was being forged from Finland to Rumania.
- ABOUT
- Booklet Cover
- INTRODUCTION
- SOVIET FOREIGN POLICY IN RELATION TO THE BALTIC STATES, 1917-1920.
- THE FOREIGN POLICY OF THE U.S.S.R. and POLITICAL RELATIONS WITH THE BALTIC STATES, 1920-1927
- Finland
- Estonia
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- THE FOREIGN POLICY OF THE U.S.S.R. AND HER RELATIONS WITH THE BALTIC COUNTRIES IN THE PERIOD, 1927-1933, The Moscow Protocol.
- The Lapuan Movement in Finland.
- The “Aisargs” in Latvia and the “Veterans” in Estonia.
- The Treaties of Non-Aggression and Neutrality Between the U.S.S.R. and the Baltic States.
- The Foreign Policy of the U.S.S.R. and Her Relations With the Baltic States in the Period 1933-1939.
- The Eastern Pact.
- The Peace Initiative of the U.S.S.R. in 1934.
- The Anglo-French-Soviet Negotiations of 1939 and the Position of the Baltic States.
- The U.S.S.R. and the Baltic Countries in 1939-1940.
- Conclusion