''Vaba Maa'' ('Free Country') was a daily newspaper in
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 ...
, published from
Tallinn
Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju ' ...
. It was the organ of the
Estonian Labour Party
The Estonian Labour Party ( et, Eesti Tööerakond, ETE) was a political party in Estonia. It was formed in 1919 by a merger of the Radical Socialist Party and the Social Travaillist Party, and ceased to exist in 1932, when it merged with other ce ...
.
[Wende, Frank. ]
Lexikon zur Geschichte der Parteien in Europa
'. Stuttgart: Kröner, 1981. p. 141 ''Vaba Maa'' had a circulation of about 50,000 in the early 1920s.
Ants Piip
Ants Piip VR III/1 (also Anton or Hans Piip; in Tuhalaane, Kreis Fellin – 1 October 1942 in Nyrobsky camp, Perm Oblast, Russian SFSR) was an Estonian lawyer, diplomat and politician. Piip was the 1st Head of State of Estonia and the 5th ...
became the editor of ''Vaba Maa'' in 1923.
''Vaba Maa'' was owned by
Aleksander Weiler.
[Kasekamp, Andres. ]
The Radical Right in Interwar Estonia
'. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press in association with School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, 2000. p. 62
References
Newspapers published in Estonia
Estonian-language newspapers
1920s in Estonia
Mass media in Tallinn
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