The Estonian National Council in Sweden was established in 1947 and was one of the oldest and largest

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...

n central organisations in

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...

. The Estonian National Council was a broad coalition of Estonian

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in exile, which maintained close contacts with Swedish democratic political parties. The main task of the ENC had been preservation and development of Estonian national and cultural heritage in exile. The ENC consisted of prominent Estonian personalities and supporters of various nationalities, 9000 people in total. The representatives of the ENC had participated in 1000 international conferences, working for breaking the westward advance of

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totalitarism and preserving Estonian national identity in anticipation of the time when Estonia would be again free nation which occurred after the collapse of

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