Posted on 08/13/2022 5:11:40 PM PDT by MercyFlush
good, I know good Lithuanian’s, but they have Russian heritage
I’ve read about that. Only one of Hitler would be more repulsive. Here’s an interesting thing. Now and again someone will come along and paint Lenin’s outstretched hand blood red. So at least one person in Seattle has a true understanding of history.
“It’s like having a statue of King George III at the National Mall in Washington, D.C.”
During the Revolution there was a lead statue of King George III in New York City.
It was torn down, melted down, and made into bullets which were used to kill the British.
Perhaps the Estonians can harvest metals from the Russian monuments and make weapons for the Ukrainians. That would be a fitting end to these monuments.
How many of those were killed by whom, and were the Estonians killed by Soviet Occupation killed because they supported Germany?
dey all whiteys, dey much be punished!
damned Caucasians...
OK. After WWI Russia (now the newly minted USSR) was treated as a losing side in the war and new nations were carved from their territory, including Finland, Poland, and the Baltic Nations.
The new USSR wasn’t happy about this and tried to take its part of Poland back, but Poland repelled them. They then signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in which they agreed to take back ‘their’ part of Poland and let Germany take the rest as well as retaking the Baltic nations. USSR then had a go at Finland, but that didn’t go as planned. Then Germany attacked the USSR taking all of Poland and the Baltics. After years the Red Army won nearly all of the lost territory back.
Somewhat ironically, the USSR was allowed to keep ‘its’ part of Poland as well as the Baltic nations after WWII. They also got to keep the bits of Finland they took in the second Finnish war.
After the war, the Soviets moved many citizens of the Baltic nations out and moved Russians in. The citizens of the Baltic nations do not have fond memories of the Russian, Soviet or German occupations of their nations.
A good movie.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3213684/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
“1944”
“In 1944 Estonia, a fratricide war ensues when Estonians of the retreating German forces fight against Estonians conscripted into the advancing Soviet Red Army.”
Does anybody ever wonder why the Soviets didn't sign with Britain and France, before Hitler did? The reason was simple. Russia wanted to occupy Poland as a condition of signing an alliance with Britain and France, Britain and France refused, so there was the opening for Hitler.
Estonia was a heavy nazi collaborator country. They even had an SS division. They even have reunions there. Pretty sick.
More ugly, corny Soviet garbage monuments. Those are in your face ugly. Did they remove the Bulgarian thing?
anyone here ever drink Ukrainian bombers? I have,
vodka on cracked ice, chased with pomegranate juice
The Estonians should offer the statues to Seattle.
Estonia should forcibly eject the Ethnic Russians out, just like Ukraine should have done in the 1990s, and will have to do if they manage to get Dombass and Crimea back. Also forcibly remove anyone who is part of any Communist or Socialist party, back to Russia.
“Estonia was a heavy nazi collaborator country. They even had an SS division. They even have reunions there. Pretty sick.”
That tells you just how much the Soviets were hated. The Estonians believed the Germans would help them regain their independence from Soviet tyranny.
We allied ourselves with an autocratic monarchy (France) to liberate ourselves from another monarchy so that we could establish a republic. If the Soviet Union had somehow occupied the U.S.A. in 1940, we would have welcomed an alliance with the Nazis too. And if you don’t believe that, then you’re way out of touch with reality.
Memento Park, Budapest, Hungary
Museum of Socialist Art, Sofia, Bulgaria
What about all of the Confederate monuments/memorials taken down in the U.S. over the last 3 years?
“It’s time to remove these monuments to rape and conquest.”
That’s right!! Just like we did to the monuments of Robert E Lee, Columbus, Jefferson, confederate soldiers, confederate monuments - even the slave holding founding father’s statues should come down.
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