1940 Constitution of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic (original) (raw)

The 1940 Constitution of Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic (Estonian: Eesti Nõukogude Sotsialistliku Vabariigi Konstitutsioon (Põhiseadus); Russian: Конституция (Основной Закон) Эстонской Советской Социалистической Республики) was unanimously adopted by the "2nd People's State Assembly", a puppet legislature in the then Soviet-occupied Estonia, on 25 August 1940. The 1940 Constitution of the Estonian SSR was effectively a translated and only marginally adjusted copy of the Stalinist 1936 Constitution of the Soviet Union.