"Under the Sign of Scorpion" by Juri - Gnostic Liberation Front

Their percentage of the population was only 0.4 per cent. The most
important question is who the leaders of the terror were.
Only 40 per cent of the members of the extermination battalions were
Estonians. Many of these came to Estonia as Soviet citizens from Russia
after the Communist coup in June 1940. Common Estonian criminals also
joined those battalions and of course also those Estonians who were
Soviet agents. The rest were Russians and other nationals, including many
Jews. The ethnic composition of those battalions was a state secret, as was
that of the EKP (Estonian Communist Party).
The extermination battalions often worked together with the Red Army.
The exterminators also wore "uniforms": they had work overalls with a
red armband. Only the leaders wore NKVD or militia uniforms. Most of
them also had a red, five-pointed star on their caps. The low-ranking
Communists in the Spanish civil war often fought in work overalls too.
This indicated their ideological background.
Some of the members of Schalom Aleichem in Tartu also volunteered
to join the extermination battalions. Among these were Selda Pats and her
brother Jaakov Pesah and also Josef Mjasnikov, who founded the Zionist
movement Netzach in Estonia, according to Dov Levin.
Movsa Michelson, chairman of the Jewish cultural organisation in
Tartu, admitted the following in an interview in the newspaper Edasi (26th
of February 1989): "At the beginning of the war many [Jews] joined the
extermination battalions." The militiaman Gerschon Zimbalov was one of
those who joined.
The extermination battalions were known for their almost indescribable
cruelty and brutality, especially towards women and children. The victims
were thrown alive into fires, parts of their bodies were cut off, they were
nailed to walls... All this also happened in Soviet Russia. The Red terror
ruled Estonia for two months until the 28th of August 1941, when those
stormtroops were defeated. They had orders to liquidate everything in
their path, to imprison the opponents of the Communist system and to
eliminate them on the spot if necessary.
The infamous Boris Friedman and Jershik Schigol terrorised the area
near the town of Voru, Jakob Jolanski in Parnu, Shustov and others in
Kuressaare.
What sort of things were these violent criminals doing? Here are a few
typical, well-documented examples, which have not acquired the ano-
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