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soldiers. Special punitive troops, aided and abetted by the Baltic German landlords, shot over
300 hundred people in 1906; without trial or inquest. The court martial additionally
condemned about 300 persons to death. About 600 received corporal punishment; hundreds
were imprisoned and sent to Siberia. More than a half of all those executed in the Russian
Empire, were inhabitants of Estonia and Latvia. Fearing the repressions, a great part of
Estonian political leaders fled abroad. Besides other reactionary punitive measures, the central
government vetoed the left-wing parties and organisations, and closed down the trade unions
and progressive newspapers. The revolution in the Baltic countries and its brutal suppression
attracted attention throughout Europe and brought the situation and problems of the Estonians
and Latvians into the limelight.
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