[Tailgunner Joe]

'No difference' between Nazis and Soviets - Sep 19, 2007 - TALLINN - Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves has one again rattled Russia’s cage by drawing a direct comparison between the country’s experience of Nazi and Soviet regimes. "From the Estonian viewpoint, there is no difference between Nazis and Communists. Both acted brutally and repressed Estonians. Neither the Nazis nor the Communists tolerated democracy, and that's a fact any Estonian knows," Ilves said, Sep. 18.

"The truth is that the Red Army and its NKVD security police liberated Estonia as much as the Wehrmacht and Gestapo before them," Ilves asserted. Ilves also re-asserted his wish to set up a memorial to victims of communism: "I repeat my appeal to establish an honorable memorial to the tens of thousands of victims of communism in Estonia. Not only to the victims of Stalinism, because this would nullify the suffering of those who were imprisoned, repressed, and persecuted between 1953 and 1988." "Unfortunately, we still do not know the names of all the victims. Our job is to find out and chisel them in stone," the president said

[billybudd]

This article is nothing but Russian propaganda. Worthless.

[Estonia]

This is an interesting article. There is a great documentary about Estonia’s history and the revolt against Russia- it is a Documentary about Estonia’s Singing Revolution: http://singingrevolution.com