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Documentary recollects Johannes Lauristin, the chairman of the first ministers' council of Estonian SSR, his personality and revolutionary activities. The essential part of the film is formed by the recollections by Olga Lauristin, Arnold Veimer and Hendrik Allik - the co-fighters of Johannes Lauristin. Photographs and documentary footage from the events that took part in 1940 have been used in the film.

Director: Valeria Anderson

Keywords: different interpretation of history | history | incorporating Estonia into USSR | Communists | Communist movement | Communist Party | recollections | emphasizing the role of Communist Party | people involved in the goverment and the Communist Party | revolutionaries | View all »