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These annoying little fascist NATO puppets are not even paper tigers at this point, these are yapping paper chihuahuas.
Oh so that's what it's about. See, I only saw Perskov's comments that it was over "abuse of historical memory and hostility towards Russia". Which immediately brought forth a long list of people who should be prosecuted for the same with much higher priority. Ya know, people like Nikita Mikhalkov and others who keep shitting out anti-soviet movies, people running and profiting from the Yeltsin museum and the supposed place of execution of Nicholas 2 "the bloodied". People writing history textbooks. Alla Pugacheva, who owns a literal castle and has decried Russia as "country of peasants", and was later warmly welcomed back by Peskov himself. Really, a very long list.
Still. Too little, too late.
Seems like a bit of an overreaction on russias part. I can understand seeing it as extremely disrespectful but these monuments were on estonian soil, so where's the legal issue?
Not that I care much for international bourgeois law, and I wouldn't expect this to get far, but I could see an argument being made that the destroyed monuments were/are Russian property and akin to grave sites, and Estonian officials could be in trouble over destruction/erasure of past atrocities, rewriting history, disturbing monuments that honor the heroics of dead soldiers, yada yada yada. I'm not expecting it to get far though.
There isn't. It's just the usual posturing. Baltics (which Estonia is, you're not "nordics", estis, cope) do something like this near damn every year since joining nato (and probably before tbf). Russian government always acts outraged and issues some proclamations. But nothing actually happens. Estonian government members keep profiting of off business with Russia, Russian authorities keep approving movies and memorials that shit on USSR and Russia.
this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2024
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