Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Kotun ta lura, da farko, cewa Estonia ta rasa 'yancin kai sakamakon Yarjejeniyar Rashin Kai hari tsakanin Jamus da Tarayyar Jamhuriyar Soviet (wanda aka fi sani da "Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact"), wanda aka kulla a ranar 23 ga Agusta 1939, da kuma bayanan sirri na sirri. Bayan ƙaddamarwa don kafa sansanonin soja na Soviet a Estonia a 1939, an shiga cikin rundunar sojojin Soviet a cikin Estonia a watan Yunin 1940. An hambarar da gwamnatin ƙasar da ke bin doka kuma aka kafa mulkin Soviet da ƙarfi. Gwamnatin kwaminisanci na Tarayyar Soviet ta gudanar da manyan ayyuka da kuma tsari a kan mutanen Estonia, ciki har da, alal misali, gudun hijira na kimanin mutane 10,000 a ranar 14 ga Yuni, 1941
da fiye da 20,000 a ranar 25 ga Maris, 1949. Bayan Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu, dubun dubatan mutane sun ɓoye a cikin gandun daji don guje wa zalunci daga hukumomin Soviet; wani ɓangare na waɗanda ke ɓoye sun yi tsayayya da mulkin mallaka. Dangane da bayanan hukumomin tsaro, kimanin mutane 1,500 aka kashe kuma kusan 10,000 aka kama a yayin motsi na juriya na 1944-1953. An katse shi da mamayar Jamus a 1941-1944, Estonia ta ci gaba da mamaye Tarayyar Soviet har zuwa lokacin da ta sake samun 'yancin kai a 1991. A sakamakon haka, Estonia a matsayin jihar an hana ta cika alkawurranta na kasa da kasa na ɗan lokaci.