Estonian War of Independence
- Ants Ilus (1901–2006) — Estonia.
- Karl Jaanus (1899–2000) – Last surviving recipient of the Cross of Liberty awarded during the war.
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Famous quotes containing the words war and/or independence:
“This war no longer bears the characteristics of former inter-European conflicts. It is one of those elemental conflicts which usher in a new millennium and which shake the world once in a thousand years.”
—Adolf Hitler (1889–1945)
“The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of Poland or the Manchester Fenians; and they relaxed their tension by voluptuous reading in Swinburne.”
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