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Diverse in Unity
What people aren't usually getting is that the Estonians and other Baltics aren't celebrating the ideology, but the people. During WW2, they had just two bad choices - fight for the Soviets (who invaded and annexed them a year earlier) or the Germans (who were invading now and had promised to liberate the Baltic states*). One way to fight with the Germans against the Soviets was to join special Waffen-SS groups. This doesn't mean that everybody who joined them was a Nazi; most were not.
Of course the Soviets had won, eventually, and Waffen-SS have become a symbol of all the nasty things the Nazi regime did. Russia is especially sensitive about it, even though some of its own units behaved in the same way. Just read up on how they punished the Balts - thousands executed, tens of thousands deported, all the usual Nazi... uhm, I mean Bolshevik, forgive me for confusing these two ideologies up sometimes, crap.
Estonians just want to honour their war veterans, that's all.
* - They lied.
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EDIT: I wonder if the Russians would allow a group of provocateurs to travel to Russia in order to disrupt a gathering of Russian war veterans. You know, they'd shout "you filthy communists, you fought for Stalin, you criminals!" at the old guys with a self-righteous expression in their faces that only idiots who don't know squat can have.
Of course the Soviets had won, eventually, and Waffen-SS have become a symbol of all the nasty things the Nazi regime did. Russia is especially sensitive about it, even though some of its own units behaved in the same way. Just read up on how they punished the Balts - thousands executed, tens of thousands deported, all the usual Nazi... uhm, I mean Bolshevik, forgive me for confusing these two ideologies up sometimes, crap.
Estonians just want to honour their war veterans, that's all.
* - They lied.
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EDIT: I wonder if the Russians would allow a group of provocateurs to travel to Russia in order to disrupt a gathering of Russian war veterans. You know, they'd shout "you filthy communists, you fought for Stalin, you criminals!" at the old guys with a self-righteous expression in their faces that only idiots who don't know squat can have.