High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yestonians (Estonian: jeestlased, jeestlane) was the derogatory epithet for Estonians brought from Russia to Estonia after World War II to staff the political structures of the Soviet Estonia with loyal cadre. The term is related to the heavy Russian accent of these people, for many of whom their mother language was second language Specifically, the correct Estonian words for "Estonians" are eestlased, eestlane, and the term derides the Russian accent for the first vowel of the word Eesti (Estonia) as in the word "yes", rather than similar to the one in "end."