1944 ... The German army and the Soviet Leningrad Front fought a series of battles for the Narva Isthmus. In July, the Soviet army captured Narva, an ancient city that has been the dividing line between Russia and the Western world for 900 years. The Tannenberg Line of Defense behind Narva is the last line of defense of the Estonian capital Tallinn. A group of Estonian youths in their early 20s volunteered to join the 20th Division of the Waffen SS Pro-Guard and began to hit the Soviet armored forces head-on on the Eastern Front to fight against the Soviet occupation. This is not the first time that Estonia has become a battlefield for the East and the West, the Germans and the Slavs. Starting from the ice battle on Lake Chud, this battle has lasted for more than 700 years. The Estonians caught in the middle were inevitably caught up in it by both sides and became victims of history. ... In September, because Finland announced the cessation of military cooperation with Germany and signed the Moscow Armistice Agreement, the German army, which was attacked from both sides, decided to withdraw from Estonia. The Soviet army followed the German army all the way to Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. The Yeshanian (Russified Estonian) soldiers in the Red Army also witnessed with their own eyes that the blue, black and white tricolor flag, which symbolized the independence of the Estonian nation, was hung on the Hermann Tower, the symbol of Tallinn, on September 18, when the German army withdrew, for four days, and was finally replaced by the red flag of the Soviet Union on September 22. ... The occupation of Tallinn was not the last battle between the Soviet Union and Germany in Estonia. ... In November, in the muddy and dense forests of Saaremaa Island, Yeshanian soldiers drove out the last batch of German troops in Estonia under the fire of German warships. The large-scale war finally ended, but peace and freedom had not yet come to this small land, and the pain brought to people by the war was still difficult to heal... This was the year of 1944 for the Estonians.