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Riots in Tallinn: Latvia’s Watching

Apr 27

AleksUncategorized 2 Comments

The events of the last two days in Estonia are being watched by nationalist organizations in Latvia. On both sides.

We can’t pass up the opportunity to blame Russians (or Estonians/Latvians, depending on which side of the fence you might find yourself.

The site of “national conservative” uberpatriotic party Visu Latvijai posted several reports in English and Latvia, including this one:

Russians have started to destroy our monuments- they covered the statue of A.H.Tammsaare with paint and wrote a thing about our prime minister Ansip there.

And things arent getting out of control only in Tallinn. Also in Jõhvi-russians also burned a statue there. And I hear that some windows have been broken in Pärnu already.

But when most of the police is in Tallinn..how can we control the other cities?

Shtab to Protect Russian Schools, which recently transformed itself into an organization with a much wider “pro-Russian” angle, announced the protest outside the Estonian embassy and forum posters aren’t exactly understanding of the actions of “fascist” Estonia.

While it impacts Latvia, I don’t see any monuments in Riga, for example, that would need to be moved. Any notion that the Victory Monument across the Daugava river ought to be demolished is a bunch of nonsense. Besides, that monument, built in 1985, doesn’t have any remains of any soldiers.