This Article Soviet deportations from Estonia is composed of Creative Common Content.\n The Original Article can be location at WikiPedia.org.\nCheck us out at WikiPlays.org As the Soviet Union had occupied Estonia in 1940 and retaken it from Nazi Germany again in 1944 tens of thousands of Estonias citizens underwent deportation in the 1940s. Deportations were predominantly to Siberia and Kazakhstan by means of railroad cattle cars without prior announcement while deported were given few night hours at best to pack their belongings and separated from their families usually also sent to the east. The procedure was established by the Serov Instructions. Estonians residing in Leningrad Oblast had already been subjected to deportation since 1935.ref The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies Oxford University Press Inc. 2010. Retrieved 20130509ref \n\nThe first repressions in Estonia affected Estonias national elite. On July 17 1940 Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces Johan Laidoner died in 1953 in Vladimir prison and his family and on July 30 1940 President Konstantin Pts died in 1956 in a psikhushka in Kalinin Oblast and his family were deport