Arnold Meri (born 1919) is an Estonian veteran of World War II, a Hero of the Soviet Union and has been charged with crimes against humanity. He is the cousin of former President of Estonia, Lennart Meri. Currently he is the chairman of the Estonian Anti-Fascist Committee.

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  • Arnold Meri (born 1919) is an Estonian veteran of World War II, a Hero of the Soviet Union and has been charged with crimes against humanity. He is the cousin of former President of Estonia, Lennart Meri. Currently he is the chairman of the Estonian Anti-Fascist Committee. Meri voluntarily joined the Red Army in 1940 while the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact‎ was still in force. After Nazi Germany attacked in June 1941, he was wounded in battle while serving as a platoon commander in north-west Russia in 1941. In August 1941 he was awarded a Gold Star of the Hero of the Soviet Union for organizing the defense of the headquarters of the Estonian Territorial Corps when the German army broke through the lines near Dno in July 1941. In reality the defense was commanded by captain Georg Loog,Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; refs with no name must have content but he was not deemed to be suitable for the decoration, as he was not a member of the Communist Party and had been an officer of the Estonian Army. Meri was specifically commended for remaining on the battlefield despite being wounded four times. Meri retired from the Red Army as a colonel. The building that housed the headquarters of the 22nd Estonian Rifle Corps in July of 1941 is currently occupied by a secondary school. In 2008 the school was renamed in honour of Arnold Meri. From 1945 to 1949 he served as the secretary of the central committee of Komsomol in Estonia. In 1948 he was awarded the highest Soviet order, the Order of Lenin. Meri's opinion on the Estonian part in World War II: (en)
  • Арнольд Константинович Ме́ри (эст. Arnold Meri) — эстонский государственный и общественно-политический деятель, действующий председатель Общественного союза против неофашизма и межнациональной розни Эстонии, первый эстонец, удостоенный звания Героя Советского Союза, с 1945 по 1949 год — 1-й секретарь ЦК ЛКСМ Эстонской ССР. (ru)
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  • Arnold Meri (born 1919) is an Estonian veteran of World War II, a Hero of the Soviet Union and has been charged with crimes against humanity. He is the cousin of former President of Estonia, Lennart Meri. Currently he is the chairman of the Estonian Anti-Fascist Committee. (en)
  • Арнольд Константинович Ме́ри (эст. Arnold Meri) (род. 1 июля 1919, г. (ru)
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  • Arnold Meri (en)
  • Мери, Арнольд Константинович (ru)
  • Arnold Meri (fi)
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