Mr Laar is a true hero.

You're right in pointing out that he's not an economist. He started out as a young historian in the late 1980s, investigating the suppressed history of the 'Forest Brothers', the thousands of Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians who hid out in the Baltic woods, resisting the brutal Soviet occupation of the Baltic states after the Second World War. This struggle for freedom had been completely suppressed by the Soviet authorities, ignored by the leftist academics in the west and are still all too little known today.

Despite pressure from the Soviet authorities, he travelled from village to village with his researchers, interviewing
the old men and women who'd escaped to the forest, fighting the Soviets and waiting for the help from the west which never came.

"Nobody believed that Estonia would, for decades and decades, be left in the hands of the Soviets," said Laar. "That wasn't even a possibility. It's only a question of time, everybody thought. But after decades went by, the idea about the West coming to their aid disappeared. The fight in the forest became a personal thing. These people fought because they simply wanted to die as free men."

Tens of thousands were killed, deported or imprisoned, with the revolt finally crushed by the Red Army in the mid 1950s. August Sabe was among the last of the Estonian Forest Brothers to survive. After years of living off the land he was found, at the age of 56, in 1978 by two KGB agents posing as fishermen. Refusing to the last to submit to capture he jumped into the lake, hooked himself to a submerged log and ended his own life a free man. Oskar Lillenurm, the last known Forest Brother, was found dead in Läänemaa county in the spring of 1980.

A film by Jonas Vaitkusÿs, 'Vienui Vieni', came out in 2004. The title - 'Utterly Alone' - sums up their struggle. What a great Hollywood film these stories would make, individual heroism pitted against cruel and crushing power, but I guess they're too busy bravely condemning Mcarthyism.

The liberation from Soviet communism, in which Mr Larr and the people of the Baltic nations played a heroic part, is one of the great wonders of our times, although I can think of one person who won't be celebrating Mr Laar's award.

"Whatever the merits, or demerits, of the many years thereafter during which Communism was in power in Moscow, it is a plain and indisputable fact that the very existence of the USSR encouraged working people everywhere to throw of the shackles of colonial rule." - Tony Benn writing in 1992.

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