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The life story of the Estonian statesman Ants Piip (1884-1942) is similar to the story of Estonian independence and state building. At that time, an independent Estonia was initially considered completely impossible in Europe. When the Estonian foreign delegation – Ants Piip and others – arrived in Western Europe in 1918 to demand recognition of Estonia, they were called unknown people from an unknown country. Ants Piip remained in the shadow of Konstantin Päts, Jaan Poska, Johan Laidoner and Jaan Tõnisson. But in his time his contribution was enormous: he was one of the founders of Estonian foreign policy, represented Estonia in London and at the Paris Peace Conference, then served as Minister of Foreign Affairs, was a member of the delegation at the Tartu Peace Talks, our first head of state in 1920/21, four times Minister of Foreign Affairs, including in the fateful year 1939/40, the first and only Estonian ambassador to the United States in the interwar period, a long-standing professor of international law at the University of Tartu… Ants Piip, who stood at the origins of Estonian independence and was forced to admit its temporary loss, was imprisoned by the NKVD in June 1941. His life ended a year later in the Nyrob prisoner of war camp in Russia.
