When President Arnold Rüütel, who left us at an advanced age, was still a boy, the then president of the republic, Konstantin Päts, visited Saaremaa. Of course, no one could have guessed at the time that the spirited young man would become a man who would stand for our people, especially rural people, with a straight back for many decades.
And indeed he did it even when it would not have been possible, because we were ruled by a foreign ideology and a foreign power had trampled almost everything valuable under its feet. But we were kept in such a way that such men as the islander Rüütel and also the giant Väl
Source: online.le.ee
