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Tisleri A.
(Alice Tisler, 1893-1918)
Who once lived in this street. Daughter of a farm laborer, tulihingeline kommunist (ardent, lit. ‘fire-bespirited’, communist), member of the Tallinn Red Guard, killed in the Battle of Keila, 1918-02-23. Soviet occupation renaming (1949-1990) of Magasini.
Tombi J.
(Jaan Tomp, 1894-1924)
Communist who earned the unhappy distinction of being the only person sentenced to death in the 1924 149 protsess (Trial of the 149, an attempt to smother burgeoning communism). Reincarnated nomino-nautically as an Ecuadorian tanker. Soviet occupation renaming (1940-1991) of Vilmsi J..
Vakmanni R.
(Rudolf Vakmann, 1894-1937)
Estonian revolutionary. Took part in the failed 1924 Estonian coup d’état (1. detsembri riigipöördekatse) for which he was definitively thanked in 1937 during the Great Purge. The coup, designed to set up an ESSR with help from the Russian Soviet Comintern, aka Third International, was partially hindered by the November 1924 Trial of the 149 removing a significant proportion of its numbers (see Tombi J.). Two of Vakmann’s brothers were caught and executed during the coup. Soviet occupation renaming (1959-1991) of Kauka.
Veimeri A.
(Arnold Veimer, 1903-1977)
Communist – oxymoronically – economist. Head of the Stalinist puppet state (1944-1951). Enabled the 1949 ‘March Deportation’ of some 20,000 mainly women, children, infants and babies critical of the regime to Siberia. Awarded “Hero of Socialist Labor” in 1973, Order of Lenin three times, etc. Soviet occupation renaming (1981-1995) of Kivila.
