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- 1 2 Olev Liivik "Formation of the Supreme Soviet of the ESSR: Elections and the principles of assembling Archived 2013-10-04 at the Wayback Machine " Estonian Institute of Historical Memory, p4
- ↑ Liivik, p2
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