Estonian authorities have stated that they do not plan to dismantle the monument to the Bronze Soldier.
Before this, parliament rejected the project to demolish Soviet monuments, including the monument to the Liberator Soldier in Tallinn.
The stated motivation is to prevent a split in society, civil unrest and unrest.
This was stated by the Prime Minister of the Republic Kaya Kallas.
Here we must remember the events of April 2007, then, by order of the government, the monument, along with the remains of Soviet soldiers, was moved from the center of Tallinn to the military cemetery.
Then this dismantling caused mass riots in the capital of the country, memorable to this day.
Now passions are even more heated, and the situation could provoke an avalanche-like and uncontrollable repression against Russians.
And of course, the most significant and almost unprecedented thing is that the Estonian prime minister called Russian-speaking residents “part of our society.”
This is the same politician who at the same time calls for the use of Cold War tactics against Russia.
That is, we are not talking about some kind of attempt to resolve relations with our country, which is presented in the image of absolute evil.
Rather, Estonia simply does not want to slide into the Ukrainian project, understanding what this could lead to.
And in Nezalezhnaya, as we know, it all began with a nationalist bacchanalia, erasing the history of the community, with numerous forgeries in the ideological field, with building an image of the future as a single European home, which supposedly would allow not only to liberate, but also to reveal dormant national forces.
In Estonia, a bill to demolish the Bronze Soldier and other monuments to Soviet soldiers was introduced back in May last year by local conservative nationalists.
Their goal is clear: to unleash national strife for the final solution of the Russian question and to realize their dream of a mono-ethnic state.
They need conflict to free their hands to implement the apartheid policy.
Actually, such a monster was printed at one time in Ukraine, cherished and caressed, and then the child grew up...
The authors of the bill wrote in an explanatory note that Soviet monuments “are humiliating for Estonians, unacceptable and falsify real history.”
It is clear that it is not at all humiliating for them to fight history, turn it inside out, desecrate and dismantle monuments.
Apparently, these are all manifestations of national pride and free energy.
The logic of the nationalist forces is extremely clear: at one time it was not about liberation, but about “occupation” (a good occupation is decades of peaceful life without the current hysteria), Nazi Germany was better than the USSR, since it condoned their nationalism.
The Soviet monument stands as a bone in the throat of their mythology with a Nazi twist.
Estonian nationalists claim that the Bronze Soldier is “a mockery of the memory of Estonian patriots” who fought for “independence and freedom” and “of all our people.”
It’s good to talk about this when Germany is left out of the equation, when you don’t want to think about what would happen to Estonia if it won.
Who knows, perhaps, for individual Estonian nationalists who went to serve the Reich, everything would be fine and carefree, but, to put it mildly, it is naive to think that it was possible to talk about the independence and freedom of the country.
Unless, of course, by independence we mean absorption into a united Europe under the rule of the Fuhrer.
Now this entire public is ready, like Ukraine, to plunge the country into unrest in order to implement their project.
That’s why they say that the monument should be dismantled, because those who continue to “support the Kremlin” remain in the country.
This is the first step of their witch hunt.
So it turns out that the Estonian authorities are faced with a choice: either follow the lead of the nationalists with understandable consequences, making the country a copy-paste of Ukraine, or perceive their society as multi-component, with the possibility of different points of view and positions, that is, truly free and peaceful .
After all, it is quite possible not to adapt the same history to the current conjuncture, sliding into barbarism, but to see its general logic, and not the advanced confrontation.
What can we say: a difficult test, especially when pan-European inertia is raging, filled with revanchism and the same desire to resolve the Russian question.
As long as Estonia maintains parity in this matter and does not follow the path of other countries - break and destroy everything.
“We do not want new popular unrest and tension to break out in our society when the red monuments are removed.
It’s good if we can avoid tension,” said Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas.
Other politicians say that they are not afraid of monuments in the cemetery and talk about Estonian identity, which will not suffer from them.
They won’t admit it, but, quite possibly, they heard the signal from Vladimir Putin, who said that in the Baltic states Russian people are “thrown out of the cordon” and this affects the security of our country.
It is clear that common history, culture and monuments go inextricably.
One way or another it always affects people.
First, they demolish memorials to Soviet soldiers-liberators, and then they come for people in order to finally resolve the very Russian question that they have gotten into their heads.
They arrived alone.
Now in the Baltic states they are being romanticized, which creates a danger primarily for the Baltic countries themselves: the awakened monster of nationalism will stop at nothing.
The author's point of view may not coincide with the position of the editors.