🔥"Putler is a war criminal." This is how Putin was congratulated on May 9 by his neighbors from Estonia.
The banner appeared on the wall of a museum in Narva, facing the Russian Ivangorod, where a stage for a patriotic concert was built. Narva is separated from Russia only by a river, which can be crossed via the Friendship Bridge.
YES!
And they are only replying in kind: Russia organized this concert to deliberately troll Estonia. Worse actually - there’s lots of ethnic Russians in the east of Estonia, most of which speak Russian not Estonian. So, to deliberately strengthen dissent.
“Russia demands removal of banner”
Boohoo! Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Also, Victory Day tastes hollow when you are being the genocidal nazis today.
There also was the narva tank saga.
Where Estonia wanted to move away the narva tank vatniks were using to commemorate the genocide and occupation. The tank was moved to a military museom. A lot of russians that for some reason do not want to live in russia threatened every which way with violence and other acts and it was still moved.
A few days after it was moved, russia somehow managed to spare a t34 from the front line and placed it on the other side of the border, pointing its gun towards the Narva town.
Trolls.
Some 10 years ago I wondered if Estonia’s policies wrt Russians in their own country isn’t a bit strict. Boy have the tables turned in my head. The Baltics had it right since the the beginning.
Russia threatened to somehow (with military force if “necessary”) protect Russians in neighbouring countries in the early 90s already. Back then I’m sure it was waved off by Western countries almost unanimously. Again: boy, have the tables turned.
10 years ago we had official schools teaching people in russian, russian signs everywhere, nobody was required to speak estonian when working in a service job, doctors spoke russian. There was no effort made to integrate them or give russian speakers a reason to lear the language of the country they’re in. All that lead to was making the more occupant minded ones expect a foreign country to break out the red carpet for them.
There are a lot of russian speaking estonians in general, not just in the east. Tallinn has quite a big population for example (Tallinn has basically 30% of the population of the whole country).
Funny how in 1934 people from foreign backgrounds composed 12% of the population and they were pretty evenly split between neighbouring countryies, and yet somehow when soviet union fell the population was composed of 40% russians… Also funny how the soviet union managed the immigration along its member states minutely and what languages and cultures were allowed…
I think you have a point here, but you are assuming way too much from your readers. I personally would appreciate a fuller explanation of what you’re trying to say.
If they could read that they’d be very upset.
Well considering it’s written in English I doubt Russians are their target audience.
I think all of Europe, if not the world, is the target audience here. Including Russia.
My thoughts exactly
It’s [not really] funny, because it’s true.
