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Otto Tief’s government: Independence, 47 years in the making

Sep 25, 2008
By Mart Laar

On Sept. 18, 1944, the last legal prime minister of the Republic of Estonia, Juri Uluots, acting president, summoned Otto Tief and said, “It is time! The Germans are withdrawing from Estonia. Summon the members of the government and get to work.” It was time, indeed. The German forces were leaving Estonia, the front at Emajogi River had been broken, and the Red Army could have reached Tallinn at any moment. Just like in 1918, the moment in which those who are small in number proclaim their will ...


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