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Hey Jammer,

I have no memory of my birthplace of Tallinn, Estonia. I was two years old when the Red Army busted through the Leningrad Blockade and marched in.

The Russians were hardly liberators. They were almost worse than the Nazis. They’d culled the population of Estonia to a million people, and who knows what fate my family would have met had we not fled on one of the last boats out.

We ended up in a series of displaced-persons camps. Food was scarce. Some weekends we walked deep into the German countryside to barter with farmers. Once my mother exchanged her precious fur coat for a bag of eggs and vegetables.

I spent the next five years in and out of those refugee camps – till age seven. And then another five years in refugee camps in Australia.

I basically spent my entire childhood in a bubble.

We’d been kicked out of our own country by the Communists, leaving everything behind. So anything that smelled of collectivism was anathema to my father.

“Those commie bastards . . .” he would mutter.

I pretended to sleep but listened intently to the drunken late-night banter of Estonian expats . . . “I’d like to line those fucking commies up against a wall and mow them down one by one . . .”

— Kalle Lasn (from our forthcoming book, The Third Force: Field Guide To a New World Order)

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