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Estonian writer and poet
Uno Laht
, (April 30, 1924, in
Valga
,
Estonia
? September 24, 2008, in
Tallinn
) was an Estonian writer and
poet
who wrote about the characteristics of everyday
Soviet
life in poetry. Laht was also a
NKVD
(later
KGB
) officer who participated in arrests and deportations in 1940s.
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Laht also used the
palindromic
pseudonym Onu Thal.
Laht's humorous
satires
were popular, notably in the collections
Piimahambad
in 1954 ("Milk Teeth") and its second version
Piimahambad (plombeeritud)
in 1956 ("Milk Teeth, Filled"). The subject matter includes "shock troops" (work battalions sent to pioneer new agricultural and industrial collective projects), cultural restriction, time wasting bureaucracy and other phenomena of Soviet life. Laht has published several books, mostly satirical poetry and humor. In 1975, Laht was awarded the
Tuglas Prize
for his short story
We Good Fellows All Over the Earth
. He has declared his political views changed at the restoration of the
Estonian independence
. He left the
USSR Union of Writers
and rejected the status of a Soviet war veteran.
Laht died on September 24, 2008, after a lengthy illness.
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