Arnold Meri (b. 1919) is an Estonian veteran of the Great Patriotic War and a Hero of the Soviet Union. He is the cousin of former President of Estonia, Lennart Meri. Meri voluntarily joined the Red Army in 1940. He was wounded in battle while serving as a platoon commander in north-west Russia in 1941. Wikipedia
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Arnold Meri , 84, is suspected of helping to deport more than 260 purported opponents of the Soviet regime from Estonia's Hiiumaa Island in 1949, several years after the Baltic state of 1.4 million people was occupied by the Soviet Union, police spokesman www.latvians.com/en/Mailer/envelope.php?2003_10_25.htm
