Caption: ''Just a reminder.''
Article: ''Historian Liisi Veski: Konstantin Päts overthrew the democratic rule.''

...It is, after all, a question of leadership and the mass as we know it. Let it be noted that the great figures of history who have had an extraordinary influence on the masses and who were very skillful speakers to the masses, such as Lenin or certainly Adolf Hitler, among the known masses of popular literature was Gustav Le Bon's book ''The Crowd'', and not only they but all others who have dealt with the masses, especially in the political world, know that, with the masses, facts, logic, reason do not apply, but their imagination and emotions must be grasped, and that is how it really is

"Since the Christian Church deepens and develops the religious feelings and experiences of the citizens of the State, thus laying the foundations for the moral growth and honest conduct of the citizens of the State, the State (must) recognize the Church as an important factor in State and national life and guarantees it a dignified opportunity to act."

Socialism and liberalism combined in our pre-war Europe threatened to reduce the whole of humanity to an amorphous mass of randomly grouped single cells, roughly the biological equivalent of a fetal morula. But Europe, too, in its essence, is not an amorphous collection of human beings, but has evolved over time as autonomous entities, individual states and nations with an inherent urge to mould themselves. Just as it is enough for a cooling molten mass or a super-charged solution to need only a few jolts or a few crystals thrown into it to crystallise the whole mass in spite of the external forms which hinder it, so Europe needed only the jolt of the Great War to give form to the impulses latent in the individual nations. And yet the relatively homogeneous structure of European statehood was suddenly shaken by the principle of national self-determination, and individual crystallizations began to emerge - national self-assertions.

"God sent (us) the Vaps Movement to purify and renew the human heart and spirit through struggle...no longer do the political parties and so-called leaders speak, but...it is the people themselves who speak through their own sovereignty - and that call is: a sword to those who hate and blaspheme God, but peace to those who build their lives on faith and hope in the Lord God."

However, there is one major national movement, which is usually not taken as such, but is classified as a national political phenomenon, but which is the only one that has tried with conscious certainty to adopt a certain Estonian historical tradition based on a certain kind of nationalism basis.

This is our Vaps Movement.

The Veterans movement has embraced this brighter era in our national history, which authors and publishers are more or less unanimous about in the sense that it demonstrates the positive potential of the Estonian people and thus serves as a tradition and an instructive example for raising national self-esteem and self-confidence. Ideologically speaking, the Veterans movement is not so much a national vision as a national vision. General Põdder, one of the most important early leaders of the movement and one of its co-workers to the end, emphasised in his last writing, even on his deathbed, that 'the Veterans are not bound by their profession but by their idea'.

The resolutions adopted by the congresses of the Vaps Movement state that the Vaps Movement fights for the integrality of the Estonian nation, whereby the idea of the nation is consciously considered to be superior to the concept of statehood, which is only a means of self-realization of the nation, although higher forms.

"The worth of a person lies not in the intellect alone, but in the religious experience that binds him to the eternal. Without this, he wanders lost in a world of his own making."