Posted on 08/12/2005 9:06:00 AM PDT by jb6
TALLINN. Aug 12 (Interfax) - A monument in Tartu in Estonia commemorating about 2,000 Soviet troops killed in 1944 was vandalized early on Friday, said an activist in Estonia's Russian-speaking community.
Obscene graffiti was placed on the monument with red paint, Gennady Sukhov, a leader of the Estonian Council of Russian Communities and a member of the Tartu City Assembly, told Interfax.
"This is not the first instance of vandalism - there were instances earlier where granite slabs were chopped off the monument, but we put everything back in order with our own resources," he said.
The incident had been reported to the police and to the Russian Embassy, he said.
I wouldn't expect the Poles to want big monuments to dead Germans, either.
I suppose the monument didn't mention the glorious liberation of Estonia in 1939 by the Red Army?
It was only vandalized and not destroyed? The monument got off lucky.
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I sometimes hear an opinion that Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were states fighting on Axis's side during WWII. Such events make me think that this opinion isn't that wierd.
They were, each had former SS divisions.
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