In an ironic piece of warning written after the Estonian youth rebellion of 1980, he put it thus: Estonia as nation developed only one hundred years ago and will disappear "in the coming centuries" - Г. Наан "Многообразие единого" - "Коммунист Эстонии", 1983, номер 1, с. 228. Cited in Sowjetsystem und Ostrecht By Georg Brunner, p. 274