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Construction of the former Tallinn Primary School No. 20 (now Tallinn Co-Education Gymnasium) in 1939. Women carry grout, bricklayers are building the stone wall, helpers are carrying bricks on their backs. In summer 1940 the furnishings are taken out from the schoolhouse in order to free the rooms for the Red Army. Traffic on Pärnu Road: trucks, cars, armoured car with the machine gun, bus, bikes. Airplane in the sky, carrying the school furniture on the street. Close-up of the headmaster August Mölder, soldiers and pupils.

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