In a recent segment on ETV's "Ringvaade," mother and son Ulvi and Aksel Haagensen, two generations of artists born in the Australian Estonian diaspora, told the story of their parents' and grandparents' escape from occupied Estonia in 1944, including the hatred they encountered for being foreign refugees. Aksel Haagensen says locals should treat refugees who have come to Estonia well, since Estonians were refugees too.
