Juhan Smuul

Johannes Schmuul, who signed as Juhan Smuul from 1954, was born on 18 February 1922 in the village of Koguva, on the island of Muhu, into a peasant family freed from serfdom as early as 1532. His schooling ended with primary school and an agricultural school that tuberculosis prevented him from completing. Mobilised in 1941 into a Red Army labour battalion, he had a rapid career after the war: in March 1949 he took part in the deportations by recording the confiscated property of a family, chaired the writers' union from 1953 until his death and sat in the Supreme Soviets. He died in Tallinn on 13 April 1971.

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• PoetryPoeem StalinileJuhan Smuul · 1949not translated into EnglishLiterature