Era of Silence

Newspaper Kaja's caption announcing the beginning of the state of protection led by General Laidoner on 14 March 1934.

The Era of Silence (Estonian: vaikiv ajastu) was the period between 1934 and 1938[1] (or 1940[2]) in Estonian history. The period began with the preemptive self-coup of 12 March 1934, which Estonian Prime Minister Konstantin Päts carried out to avert a feared takeover of the state apparatus by the popular Vaps Movement (a nationalist political organization of war veterans).

  1. ^ Estonica
  2. ^ Miljan, p. 196.

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