Original sentence: The Republic of Estonia was occupied by the Soviet Union in June 1940,, ,   while Soviet and Russian sources claimed that it voluntarily joined the USSR
Edited sentence: According to modern Estonian and Western accounts the Republic of Estonia was occupied by the Soviet Union in June 1940,, ,   while Soviet and Russian sources claimed that it voluntarily joined the USSR.Soviet power in Estonia, which was a province of the Russian Empire, was established in the end of October 1917.State Symbols - Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic</ref> Estonian Soviet republic was proclaimed in Narva on November 29 1918, but fell to counter-revolutionaries and White movement in 1919