 This order was made operational on June 14, 1941, when the mass June deportation took place simultaneously in all three Baltic countries; almost 10,000 Estonians were deported in just a couple of days.Forcible conscription into the Red Army began after the German invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, but Estonian conscripts were soon deemed unreliable, assigned to hard "labour battalions".Of the 33,000 Estonian conscripts, more than 10,000 died in the most inhuman conditions due to disease, hunger and cold.