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Sorry to interrupt for a second but I wonder why you take RT seriously then? (HINT: Go to Youtube RT channel and read their description)

In short Russia cast the first stone. When Germany invaded we were already occupied by another power so in a sense Estonia was already destroyed and lost. There was no Estonia anymore.

Ummm some beverage companies? Food?

As an Estonian I can say this is pretty much it at least from our side of the pond. Truth be told there is no problem. 8% non-citizens will disappear in a couple of years give or take. Veterans on both sides will die out in like 10-30 years? Our Erna retk military exercise was changed to a...

Estonian government does not endorse such activities besides maybe granting them a place to gather by some level of governing as they should based on their veteran status. What do you mean by endorse anyway? Is driving protestors with ill intentions (like noteable football hooligans are done...

Actually Red_Elk why is Estonia so important to you? Let us be fascists, communists, liberalists, naschists, nazists, atheists, deists, theist, racists. Whatever we like to be. It's our country that will go down the train. All the ethnic Russians are welcome to leave if they feel Estonia is...

Read the words carefully that you asked and what I replied. First question: What do Estonians build their national identity upon? I answered: Recent history anti-Russian and that's what people remember (logical as most people are still alive that were during these events or their parents were)...

We feared what laws might get passed as like you said a third of our country was not really our citizens. SU deported these people into Estonia and it was a shared artificial problem. We had 1/3 of our population that was not really willing or wanting to live by Estonian rules. Remember that...

I probably meant that and by that I was wrong. I seem to recall this was discussed during the Bronze Solider saga that we managed to remove other monuments before and Bronze Solider was left in that place for too long. Still this was in any case not that important in this discussion (to me at...

Absolutely true. To me most of these monuments remind me of Soviet repression firstly and then the victory over Nazi Germany or the battle that actually took place or whatever pinpoint meaning a monument has. Bronze Soldier become the epitome. Kind of the flagship of all the monuments. Again for...

I took a camping trip around Estonia traveling by train and bikes. One thing that surprised me was the number of commemorating monuments. Every town I went to had at least one memorial present and quite a few had the Red Army insignia on them. One that comes to mind immediately is in Pärnu some...

I am fine with this law myself. Contrary to the belief the next generations do not care about ww2 that much, it feels like a cool story. You might think it's a huge crime to think that way but go backward a little. Almost no one talks about horrors of the ww1. A lot of lessons were learned there...

Well I can agree and understand that such actions would be quite idiotic and shameful. I don't understand however why imho (speaking out of my own view now, don't get upset) this is getting blown out of proportion. You are forgetting the fact that Estonia as a population suffered under Nazi...

Hi, sorry for the minibump but after reading most of this thread I feel like I earned the right to chip in a comment. Firstly, we are all globalized by using forums, mass media, Youtube, tv and other channels that define us. We will always view the world differently than a Russian, Estonian...