Can you please explain that? First of all there was no “Estonia during WWII”. First it was occupied by Russians then Germans. When Germans left, the swastika was tored off and Estoninian flag put up. But after 3 days came liberatord and they replaced it with the red flag.

Now can you please explain me how badly estonia behaved? And what Estonia?

Russia can’t be blamed for the Estonian government’s politically touching move.

Estonia itself was far from well behaved during World War II.

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2007/05/02/005.html

Russia simply has to accept that because of what happened in the past, many of Russia’s immediate neighbors will feel great distrust and dislike toward her for years to come. But given time things may change. It may take two or more generations, but it’s possible. Look at France and Germany.

To Michael Averko–there are several accounts in the media about what the Estonian diplomats endured in Moscow. For example, this is an excerpt from the International Herald Tribune:

“The persistent protest has disrupted
the embassy’s operation and prompted
Estonia to send spouses and children
of diplomats home. A flag was ripped
off the embassy grounds and Kaljurand
[the Ambassador] said stones were
thrown at the building. On Wednesday,
Kaljurand was mobbed by dozens of
activists from Nashi and other groups
who stormed into a building where she
was to give a news conference.”

The nazi Germany was occupier like soviet Russia. And I repeat there is neither better killer nor occupier. Only soviets managed to murder in 1 year of occupation (1940-41) many times more people than Germans in 3 years.

The main dissonance in the understanding of history between Russian and Eastern Europe is that eastern Europe still remembers Russia as aggressor with nazi Germany. But Russia desperately tries to hide the fact that he too was aggressor and occupier.

If you read the Jewish page closely then you can see that it was Russia who first started to deport and kill poor Estonian Jews.

Quote: “The cultural autonomy of minority peoples is an exceptional phenomenon in European cultural history. Jewish cultural autonomy was of great interest to global Jewish community. The Jewish National Endowment presented the Estonian government with a certificate of gratitude for this achievement.”

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Estonia.html

But again this does not justify Russian atrocities in Estonia. Nor interfering in internal affairs.

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International Jewish groups say at least 17 unpunished Nazi war criminals may be living in Estonia, but investigators have not brought charges against a single one.

Experts say the reluctance to prosecute accused Nazi war criminals such as Gorshkow reflects Estonia’s lingering ambivalence about the 1941-44 Nazi occupation.
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“Estonia is one of the countries that are in deep denial,” said Efraim Zuroff of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, which hunts down Nazi war criminals. “They think they have nothing to do with this, that the Holocaust didn’t happen there, that they have nothing to regret and nothing to apologize for.”

Experts say Estonia’s lack of political will to prosecute war criminals undermines its attempt to portray itself as a nation that shares Western values. Estonia is scheduled to join the European Union on May 1 and to become a NATO member in the summer.

But Anatol Lieven, an expert on the Baltic states at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C., said Estonia’s reluctance to address its role in the Holocaust “raises the question of how far the whole adoption of the Western persona (is) genuine and deep-rooted” or whether it could “evaporate again after they join the EU and NATO.”

Having experienced the terror of the Soviet occupation, when thousands were deported to Siberia, many Estonians welcomed the arrival of German troops in 1941.

They voluntarily joined Nazi police and army units and helped exterminate not only Estonia’s tiny Jewish community but tens of thousands of Jews brought here from other Eastern European countries to be slaughtered or interned in camps such as Vaivara, Klooga and Lagedi.

Like Gorshkow, many Estonian collaborators were also sent abroad, mostly to Belarus and Poland, and reportedly participated in the murder of Jews there.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/02/15/MNGKV51C571.DTL

You have hit the nail on the head! That’s the whole point of this maneuver. Read Vilhelm Konnander’s analysis (scroll down to “Estonia: Battle by Bronze Proxy”):

http://vilhelmkonnander.blogspot.com/2007_02_01_archive.html

For example My grandfather fight against Nazi Germany in WW II as red army soldier and my grand – grandparents was killed by red army soldiers as civilians.

It is history and all we have to accept it without anger.

One of the main reason why that statue was replaced connected with the fact that during last 2 years (not before) time to time tere was some conflicts between small group of people. Between so called russian extreme group and estonian extreame group. (Sorry my languiage skill). That mean territory of that statue in center of Tallinn was secure any more and peace of grave was desecrated.

By the way: Russia send 30 % of oil via Estonia to west so i believe quite soon trains start mooving again

Greeting!

The riots in Estonia aren’t the fault of Russia. Offhand, I’m not aware of Estonian diplomats being abused in Russia. I’ve been away from the news a bit. If this happened, then it’s a blemish on Russia.

Governments of nations have certain rights. However, when they initiate provocatively stupid policies, they shouldn’t be left off the hook.