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Enn Nõu's interview with Helga Nõu's father Aleksander Raukas, a forestry scientist, in his home in Saltsjöbaden on November 5, 1983. The old man recollects the statesmen whom he has been in contact.
Since Aleksander Raukas worked as a forester in 1934-1941, he was among those invited to the reception for foresters in Kadriorg Palace in 1936 where also Konstantin Päts, President of the first Republic of Estonia, held a speech. Mr Raukas met the President also in his summer residence, Oru Palace, where Raukas was invited to discuss the planting of oak trees in Oru Park. Aleksander Raukas recollects ...

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