The Vaps Movement was an anti-communist organisation led by former military officers,[4] and most of its base were veterans of the 1918–1920 Estonian War of Independence.

[5] Early support for the movement came from campaigns to financially uplift Estonian veterans, and redistribute land previously held by the Baltic German nobility.

[7] The league rejected racial ideology and openly criticized the Nazi persecution of Jews[4] and lacked the willingness to use violence or adopt the goal of territorial expansion.

In October 1933 the government was forced to allow the Vaps movement to put forward its own referendum on constitutional reform, after watered down centre-right proposals failed to win support.

In 2009, Jüri Liim reportedly submitted a formal application to restore the original Vaps Movement.