Hmmm, there was a better way this could have been done. And the timing of the removal of the monument I believe is entirely deliberate in order to provoke the Russian population who however they got there make up 25% of the population. They could have waited until after the 9th of May.
Also talk about pot calling kettle black. Do they tell you that there is active discrimination going on in Estonia towards ethnically Russians who live there. They can't get citizenship, they are excluded from various benefits. Many have also been removed from their homes in favour of ethnic Estonians. They don't mention that, and yet the Estonian government was accepted into the EU even though this discrimination is evident and documented and the government has the temerity to announce that effectively Russia is attacking the EU.
It is made to sound so simple on the BBC website, poor Estonians, bad naught nasty Russians.
Also do they ever mention the 22 concentration camps on Estonian soil during the war run by Estonians none the less or that fewer 12 Estonian Jews are thought to have survived the war in Estonia. This isn't mentioned.
Oh there has been an apology and a monument but still WWII, Russians bad, bad.
I would also like to refer you to this article
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...054299,00.html
I am also looking for an article which is about the son of an Estonian MP who dressed up as an SS officer and went to a party replete with Hitler salutes etc, and this guy was also an MEP.
Seriously guys, dig deeper and read the other side why the Russians are upset, both those in Estonia and out.
Then again I get the feeling that few will have sympathy for the Russians in Estonia and dismiss the discrimination claims as propoganda.