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When the Estonian government decided to move a monument to Soviet soldiers, whom they view as occupiers and rapists, from a central square in the capital of Tallinn to another location, a hoard of Russian nationalists including Nashi youth cult members descended to destabilize the country (just as Russia has sought to do in Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova). Their protest immediately turned violent and ended in an obscene display of looting spanning several days, laying bare the true nature of the protesters' committment to the fate of the Soviet soldiers. The Kremlin took the side of the protesters, and some officials even called for Russia to break diplomatic relations. Once again, we see Russia shoot itself in the face; nothing could more conclusively show the horror of the neo-Soviet regime in Moscow than its renewed imperial designs on Estonia, full of neo-Soviet hypocrisy. The Kremlin is free to crush peaceful anti-Putin protests, but believes pro-Russian protests in Estonia can't be suppressed even when they are criminal in nature. It complains when foreigners support Putin's opposition, but has no problem sending Nashi to Estonia. Photos from an Estonian blog after the jump.
He's doing to Estonians what the Soviet Army did.
And Russia is surprised Estonia doesn't want to honor them!
Her argument in favor of showing respect to Russians
is utterly compelling, isn't it?
Another Russian victim of Estonian oppression.
A Russian government official called the Estonian authorities
"inhuman" for trying to deny this patriotic lad his God-given right
to free cognac.
He seems to wish it was the leg of an Estonian.
This fellow has obviously studied the teachings of Gandhi and King.
His patriotic love for the Soviet soldiers is so powerful, one is moved to tears.
The Red Army did this to Estonia in the 1940s. Everything old is new again.
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Comments
Kokoito says:
2 La Russophobe
First of all, stop with the "Soviet" labeling, please. Because the result is quite the opposite: you remind me of an over-zealous communist party member.
Secondly, don't call people "liars" only because their interpretation or the view on things differs from yours, since this behaviour is also so damn "sovok".
And yes, I didn't really criticize the protesters, since you've already done that in extent, so why repeat, what is essentialy true and already said?
Alright, now to the points:
(1) Well, it's kind of obvious, that the protesters were russians or russian-speakers, since it is "their" monument. Sadly, they degraded the protest to riots and violence. As I said before, I do not redeem the violence that happened, and to my mind, what I say, is not utterly bizzare, since by that, I ask myself the questions, nobody seems to ask: "Why did they start to riot? Why now? Why only russian-speakers? What drives them to be like that?" It is easy just label them as "neo-soviet animals", but, to my mind, it is just because of a vast sociollogical problem, that needs to be solved.
(2) Well, most of my ancestors were brutalized, sent to Siberia and killed during the Soviet rule. I loathe Stalin and his minions. However, holding modern day average russians responsible for that is weak. So I don't think that past repressions could justify any actions against modern day people. I think, that Russia should just anknowledge the wrongs done by the USSR and get it over with for all the countries.
The thing with citizenship is, to my opinion, highly formal and debatable, since the situation in Estonia is complicated. Anyhow, this is not the point of this discussion, as I understand.
(3) Eh? I don't know you, woman. I'm no journalist. So, why should my opinion be known to you in advance? If you must know, I think what happened to Khodorkovsky and Politkovskaya (for example) is just plain sick.
(4) Russian nationalists FROM RUSSIA!... Sounds like "Space mutants FROM OUTER SPACE!". I'm sorry, I couldn't help it. :) It is not widely publized here, in Estonia, so I didn't think the problem severe. I thought it was about 5-10 people at best.
As for what is happening in Russia -- I don't really care. It is Estonia, I am concerned with.
(5) Ofcourse, the people tried to break the police line. You must understand, that the problem is, that the russian-speakers there see the monument more as a grave to their fore-fathers, who died in the war. Would you stand idly, when I tried to move your relatives grave, saying that it is a symbol of opression? I exaggerate, but I think you get the point. The reason for the Bronze Soldier Unrest is because of the different interpretation of one object and the unwillingness of people to talk and listen to each other, without attacking or bashing each other.
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