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On 10 October 1919, the Land Reform Act was passed which abolished the land ownership of
the Baltic German overlords.
The Soviet Russian troops who suffered heavy losses attacking the well-fortified defence
positions on Estonian borders, agreed to a truce on 31 December, and on 2 February 1920, a
peace treaty between the Republic of Estonia and the Russian SFSR was signed in Tartu.
Russia was thus the first country to recognise Estonia de jure, relinquishing `forever its rights
of sovereignty that Russia had over the Estonian people and country'. The 14-month War of
Independence had claimed 3588 lives and 13 775 were wounded on the Estonian side.
The peace treaty granted favourable borders to Estonia and the amount of 15 million gold
roubles from Russia's gold fund. Soviet Russia, however, failed to meet several points of the
treaty from the very start. For example the returning of the assets and industrial equipment
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