Estonia´s silenced hero Endel Lippmaa - scientist who changed the history

Endel Lippmaa (15 September 1930 - 30 July 2015), one of the very few Estonia´s worldowned scientists and incredible hero has perished. Endel Lippmaa is the man who forced Kremlin in 1989 to admit that before Baltic States were occupied by Stalin´s Red army Hitler and Stalin had made a secret deal who gets what in Europe. We recalled those events - the long battle to force Kremlin to admit that secret deal existed (blowing up the Kremlin free-will 1940 revolutions claims that came as shock to many in USSR) in our joint book, launched on 21 August 2009, just few weeks before my son fall a victim of enourmous brutality, secret involuntary drugging, torture and perished at Tallinn biggest hospital PERH/NEMC.

The full book compiled by H. Lindpere "Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact: Challenging Soviet history", including my own article about our battle in Moscow in 1989 and Lippmaa´s crucial role is here: http://www.evi.ee/old/lib/MRP_ENG.pdf. I also recalled our battle in Moscow and Lippmaa´s crucial role in our fight for indepedence in my 2010 book "Christmas in Kremlin"/"Eesti Jõulud Kremlis"  (in Estonian only). Remarkable man. I was 26 and a journalist at national daily when he proposed me to start joint fight against Soviet military factory in Sillamäe and its nuclear waste storage in 1989 winter, that was then followed by fight for Baltic freedom in summer and autumn 1989 in Moscow to force Kemlin to admit and nullify the Hitler-Stalin secret pact from 1939. These joint efforts developed quickly into friendship, one of the most special friendship I have had this lifetime.

He had gone through hell in his childhood when he had lost his family - mom, dad and 8 year old sister during Red army bombing of the Tartu Botanic Garden where he lived with his scientist dad, mom and sister. Man with a big and warm heart. But cold for those he didnt like - liars, traitors. Super smart mind. Great sense of humour. Man with a mission. He became the person his mom and dad and sister could be always proud.

20 years later: Recalling our 1989 battle. 21 August 2009, Tallinn City Archives

We both knew that year 1989 we were put into the most hated person´s list by anti-Baltic officials from Soviet Defence Ministry and later Putin and his kind of people in Russia and not only for that 1989 battle. We had nailed that position with incident before the decisive debate and voting at the USSR Congress session in Kremlin in Christmas1989 - when we managed to block the attempt of Soviet Defence Ministry to put up a massive exibition they had prepared with false facts about Baltic States history that was aimed to convince the minds of nearly 2000 Soviet deputies, so they would not support decision to publicly admit that Hitler Stalin secret protocol really existed. Endel Lippmaa described those events in a book, released in August 2009 as follows:

"At that time, the interests of two powerful administrations clashed – the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Foreign Aff airs.The Ministry of Defence had played its trump card earlier. Shortly before Yakovlev’s speech on December 23rd, the political administration of the Ministry of Defence attempted to erect a large display in the foyer of the Palace of Congresses about the “unanimous” decision of the Baltic States to be embraced by Josef Vissarionovich Stalin and the happy family of Soviet nations.

When some of our people began to question whether the display had been approved, the stands were reversed, to be unveiled during the break. I was attending the session when the journalist Anneli Reigas, who had been covering the MRP affair in a long and comprehensive series of articles in Noorte Hääl, notified me of the incident. Using a public microphone I asked Gorbachev whether this was a new way of working in the Soviet Congress. My microphone was switched off . Since there was no way of interrupting me or the session, Gorbachev eventually gave Lukyanov the order to remove the display."

Read here also my comments regarding the 1 August 2015 unfortunate story written by US State Department former Baltic desk officer Paul Goble about Endel Lippmaa, feud and lies, including from Toomas H. Ilves date back to 1990.

Tributes to great scientist and Baltic freedom fight hero Endel Lippmaa here:
CERN: cds.cern.ch/journal/CERNBulletin/2010/43/News Articles/1299927?ln=en
The Telegraph: www.telegraph.co.uk/…/11801251/Endel-Lippmaa-physicist-obit…
Physics Today: scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/news/10.1063/pt.5.6165

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