ESTONIAN SYMPHONIC MUSIC. THE FIRST CENTURY 1896-1996.
the destiny of Estonians in the deportation camps: Maria Siberimaal (Maria in Siberia,
1988) by Heino Kiik.
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In drama the opposition to the foreign suppression power was obvious. History
became the main topic for treatment bringing forth crucial questions about being
Estonian in the past and in the present.
Three dramas must be mentioned which were met by the strongest feedback
from the theatregoers: Pilvede värvid (The Colours of Clouds) and Vaikuse vallamaja
(The Vaikuse Community Centre) by Jaan Kruusvall (b. 1940), and Minek (Departure)
by Rein Saluri (b. 1939). All portraying the lugubrious Fifties – escape of the coast
dwellers to the West, collisions and conflicts between national-minded rural residents
and communists, ruthless deportation by the new rulers.
In May 1983 an exhibition of Estonian books was opened in Helsinki (with
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