Estonia is the small Baltic country where 275,000 Soviet
soldiers and partisans gave their own lives in order to liberate it from
the Nazi yoke. Nonetheless, instead of honoring them, the Estonian authorities
glorify the collaborators of the Nazis who fought against the Soviet Red
Army in the Second World War.
Recently, in the city of Jõhvi, the local authorities unveiled a new memorial dedicated to an Estonian Nazi. His name was Georg Sooden and he was a captain of the 20th Estonian Waffen-SS Division which fought alongside the Nazis against the Soviet Union. Sooden was killed during a battle with the Red Army in the Blue Hills of Tannenberg line in July 1944.
The memorial for Sooden is added in the chain of numerous monuments dedicated to Nazi collaborators that have been erected in Estonia, an EU and NATO member.
Of course, the Baltic country isn't the only EU member which has proceeded to the rehabilitation of Nazi criminals... The same practice has been followed in its neighboring countries, including Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. In these countries, under the auspices of the EU and NATO, those who collaborated with the Nazi monsters are recognized as “freedom fighters”...
At the same time, in a number of EU member-states, Soviet-era memorials are being demolished and the activity of Communist Parties has been banned, in an effort to re-write history according to the interests of monopoly capital. After all, anti-communism has been an official ideology of the Union.
At the same time, in a number of EU member-states, Soviet-era memorials are being demolished and the activity of Communist Parties has been banned, in an effort to re-write history according to the interests of monopoly capital. After all, anti-communism has been an official ideology of the Union.
PS: The former Prime Minister of Estonia, Kaja Kallas, was recently appointed as the EU's new High Commissioner of Foreign Affairs.