Aleksander Hellat
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Aleksander Hellat (, in
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– 28 November 1943, in
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) was an
Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Ru ...
n politician and a Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia. He was a member of the
Estonian Social Democratic Workers' Party The Estonian Social Democratic Workers' Party () was a political party in Estonia between 1917 and 1925. The leaders of the party, founded on platforms of patriotism, Estonian independence, and social justice, made a major contribution to the d ...
. After Estonia had been annexed by the
Soviet Union The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...
, Hellat was arrested in 1940 by the
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and deported to a prison camp in
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, where he died three years later.


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1881 births 1943 deaths People from Kreis Dorpat Estonian Social Democratic Workers' Party politicians Ministers of the interior of Estonia Ministers of foreign affairs of Estonia Mayors of Tallinn Envoys of Estonia People who died in the Gulag Estonian Gulag detainees Estonian people who died in Soviet detention {{Estonia-mayor-stub