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"Employment Contract Terminated on September 28, 1994" - Unpublished Files of the Crew of the Estonia that Perished Speak of Hope and Difficult Choices

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Erkki Talver dreamed of a career as a professional tennis player, but he became a waiter on the Estonia, a passenger ship that sailed between Tallinn and Stockholm. Lea Aaliste worked as a teacher, but went to sea as a waitress. Previously unknown materials about the Estonia disaster, reviewed by Eesti Ekspress in the National Archives, reveal a picture of Estonia in the early 1990s – the intoxication of freedom, but also poverty and difficult …
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Erkki Talver dreamed of a career as a professional tennis player, but he became a waiter on the Estonia, a passenger ship that sailed between Tallinn and Stockholm. Lea Aaliste worked as a teacher, but went to sea as a waitress. Previously unknown materials about the Estonia disaster, reviewed by Eesti Ekspress in the National Archives, reveal a picture of Estonia in the early 1990s – the intoxication of freedom, but also poverty and difficult …

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Delfi broke the news in on Wednesday, June 18, 2025.
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