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Enn Nõu interviews Mihkel Martsoo in his home in Uppsala in November 1985. The old man recalls his studies in Pärnu Upper Secondary School for Boys, teachers, schoolmates and his activities during the publication of the Estonian Declaration of Independence (also known as the Manifesto to the Peoples of Estonia). The beginning of the War of Independence takes the 16-year-old young man with his schoolmates to the war. When back in Pärnu, he joins the defence battalion and then to the military school that was founded on April 22, 1919. Martsoo recalls the officers of the military school and the ...

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