Estonian Bronze Soldier Desecrated Again by Nazi Fucks

I just found out about this. Ruined my day.

Bronze Soldier monument defiled in Estonia

11.08.2009, 05.31


TALLINN, August 11 (Itar-Tass) -- The Bronze Soldier monument, erected in the Estonian capital Tallinn decades ago to honor the Soviet Army for liberating Estonia from Nazi occupation during World War II, was defiled on Monday evening. Unknown vandals painted pro-Nazi and anti-Communist and anti-Semiotic graffiti on the wall behind the monument, says the Internet portal of Estonia’s Russian community.
As is seen on the pictures placed on the website, the vandals wrote the Nazi greeting ‘Heil Hitler’ and painted the emblem and swastika signs and also five-point and six-point stars – both crisscrossed.
The act of vandalism occurred at Tallinn’s military cemetery, where the monument was moved back in April 2007 from the city’s center at the decision of the Estonian authorities. The police then cracked down on protest demonstrations by the Russian-speaking population against the monument’s removal.
Another monument to the Soviet soldiers, the one in Kehra, was defiled in May 2009. The vandals dug out the gravestone and overturned the stone vases for flowers.

http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2....2290&PageNum=0

Russia expresses outrage as USSR-era war monument "again" vandalized in Estonia.


COPYRIGHT 2009 BBC Monitoring Text of report by Russian Zvezda TV, Defence Ministry controlled, promotes patriotic values, on 11 August
[Presenter] The Bronze Soldier has again been vandalized in Estonia. At a cemetery near Tallinn, vandals drew Nazi symbols on the famous monument to the liberator soldier. This happened shortly before the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Tallinn from the Hitlerite army. The police are now looking for the criminals.
The Russian embassy has expressed outrage at the act of vandalism.
[Mariya Shustitskaya, captioned as press attache of the Russian embassy in Estonia] The embassy of the Russian Federation has been informed about an act of vandalism perpetrated today against the monument to the liberator soldier at the military cemetery. The embassy is concerned and outraged by this incident. We are confident that the Estonian authorities will take all possible steps to find the perpetrators of this act of vandalism and ensure that they receive appropriate punishment.
[Video shows swastikas drawn on the monument]
Source: Zvezda TV, Moscow, in Russian 1200 gmt 11 Aug 09

I love how the BBC puts the word "again" in quotes as if the Estonian government did no wrong- the same government that encourages the erection of Nazi memorials. A lot of this desecration has been happening in recent years throughout the former USSR and this is why Russian President Medvedev has been making phony promises of protecting Great Patriotic War heritage:

August 11, 2009
10:00

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Dmitry Medvedev sent a message to participants of Great Patriotic War veterans' round table “No one is forgotten. Nothing is forgotten.”

The President responded to suggestions from the veterans regarding the upcoming 65th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
The round table took place in Kiev on June 22, 2009 and was arranged by the International Ukrainian Union of War Veterans to discuss the 65th anniversary of Ukraine’s liberation marked in 2009, as well as the upcoming 65th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The round table was attended by representatives of six Ukrainian public organisations of veterans with aggregate membership of over ten million, as well as military attaches from the embassies of the Russian Federation, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, and Turkmenistan. The suggestions put forward at the round table were addressed to the CIS leaders.
In their message, the Ukrainian veterans call on the leaders to set aside political bias, take an attentive look at the contemporary realities, and re-instil society with respect for people who devoted their lives to defending their nation from aggressors and who restored it after the war.
In particular, the veterans suggest declaring 2010 the Year of Great Patriotic War Veterans throughout the CIS member-states; attributing to activities dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the Victory the highest official status; arranging for the exchange of war veterans delegations; renovating war memorials, monuments, common graves and other places where defenders of the motherland are buried, memorial plaques, and museums; promoting military and patriotic education for young people based on the heroic traditions of the victors; and preventing the falsification and revision of Great Patriotic War history.

http://www.kremlin.ru/eng/text/news/...8/220753.shtml

August 11, 2009


The message from President Medvedev to participants of Great Patriotic War veterans’ round table “No one is forgotten. Nothing is forgotten.”


I am truly grateful for your letter and your suggestions regarding the upcoming 65th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
Next year, Russia will be presiding over the Commonwealth of Independent States. We will put in the maximum possible effort to take into account all of your suggestions. Every single veteran of that war should receive attention and care. A great deal also needs to be done to promote patriotic education of young people and to counteract attempts to rewrite history.
Issues related to the anniversary of the Victory will be reviewed at a session of the Council of CIS Heads of State in Chisinau on October 9, 2009. However, I should note that most of the matters you brought up are already being actively addressed. This includes declaring 2010 the Year of Great Patriotic War Veterans throughout the CIS. Russia suggests holding it under the slogan of “We won together!”
Your generation liberated our homeland, restored towns and villages out of ruins, and allowed millions of people to retain their lives and freedom. This heroic feat will forever be gratefully remembered by your descendants. It is of prime importance to make the truth about the heroic efforts that led to Victory in the most bloody and cruel war in human history known to today’s youth.
Your readiness to participate actively in celebrating the 65th anniversary of the Victory is worthy of great respect. I am certain that the upcoming festivities and tributes to veteran soldiers and workers will take place at the highest level.
I wish you and your loved ones health, happiness, and prosperity.

http://www.kremlin.ru/eng/text/docs/...8/220752.shtml

Of course the Baltic States are not part of the CIS. Or Georgia for that matter since the 2008 South Ossetian fiasco. Ukraine never signed the CIS treaty. Neither did Turkmenistan, and that dipshit Niyazov had the country become an associate member as a token of "neutrality" to the UN- in reality, placating the Canadian natural gas firms which have a stake in that country. Ukraine has the potential, though not definite but possible, of pulling out completely depending on the current political situation in that country. The CIS is a fragile, sham confederacy that will never honor the Soviet past but succumb to Russian, Chinese, or Western exploitation. "We won together," but we stab each other in the backs now.

Edit: Plus, the rest of Eastern Europe is not part of the CIS, and a lot of Soviet war memorials in the former socialist countries have been desecrated or allowed to decay in the past two decades. There's nothing Medvedev can do about that, either. He's just full of hot-air.