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Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic

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The Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic (widely used abbreviation Estonian SSR; Estonian: Eesti Nõukogude Sotsialistlik Vabariik, Eesti NSV; Russian: Эстонская Советская Социалистическая Республика, Эстонская ССР) was an ethnically based administrative subdivision of the former Soviet Union (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR) covering the territory of Estonia from 1940 until 1991. The Estonian SSR was nominally established to replace the until then independent Republic of Estonia on 21 July 1940, a month after the 16–17 June 1940 Soviet military invasion and occupation of the country during World War II. After the installation of a Stalinist government which, backed by the occupying Soviet Red Army, declared Estonia a Soviet constituency, the Estonian SSR was subsequently incorporated into the Soviet Union as a "union republic" on 6 August 1940. Estonia was occupied by Nazi Germany in 1941 and administered as a part of Reichskommissariat Ostland until it was reconquered by the USSR in 1944. Most countries did not recognize the incorporation of Estonia into the Soviet Union de jure and only recognized its Soviet administration de facto or not at all. A number of countries continued to recognize Estonian diplomats and consuls who still functioned in the name of their former government. This policy of non-recognition gave rise to the principle of legal continuity, which held that de jure, Estonia remained an independent state under occupation throughout the period 1940–91.On 16 November 1988, Estonia became the first of the then Soviet-controlled countries to declare state sovereignty from Moscow. On 30 March 1990, the newly elected parliament declared that the Republic of Estonia had been illegally occupied since 1940, and formally announced a transitional period for the restoration of the country's full independence. Subsequently, the use of all Soviet symbols and the name "Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic" was officially abolished on 8 May 1990. Estonia declared the re-establishment of full independence on 20 August 1991, and the Soviet Union recognized the independence of Estonia on 6 September 1991.

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Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic
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