Edasi

The paper was the successor of Postimees of which the name was changed to Edasi on 1 May 1948 to make the paper more Soviet.^[1][2] It worked, and the paper became a true Soviet publication.^[3] Its headquarters was in Tartu.^[4][5] The paper was controlled by the Tartu Communist Party.^[6] However, it was one of the Estonian media outlets not used by the Soviet officials to control Estonians.^[4]

Edasi was first a local paper, but later it became a national publication.^[2] During the period between 1955 and 1979 when Estonia was subject to the mental Sovietization it was one of the publications which contained political humor.^[2] At the same time the paper also published travel stories and literary reviews.^[3]

On 1 January 1991, Edasi regained its original name, Postimees.^[1][7]