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One thing is to deal with current concerns, which indeed must be separated from history. And a monument is another: it deals ONLY with history.

You do not find it abominable to erect a monument honoring SS? You find any considerations that excuse that action?

I don't like the idea of that monument. Especially I don't like the fact, that Estonian government officials are going to attend this ceremony.

However - I don't know what my stance would be like if I were an Estonian patriot. But I'm a Pole and I see it very difficult to accept celebration of soldiers wearing SS uniforms and fighting together with the German Nazis.

But - this is Estonian internal problem, and I don't think that Russian goverment is entitled to issue a public comment like that.

Especially, that at the same time they say something like this: "historical debates should be left to experts and practical questions, should be resolved in a constructive way without offending each other".

And this is exactly a historical debate (as we can see it on this thread) - were those people brave soldiers, fighters for freedom of Estonia, or they were Nazi war criminals?

Another problem is, that many pro-Russian FReepers maintain, that Russia has nothing to do with the Soviet Union.
If such an opinion is correct - Russia is even less entitled to comment such a monument, that commemorates people fighnig against Soviet Union and bolshevism, not against Russia.

The statement issued by Russian government says also: "Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia should separate politics from history in their relations with Russia".

And I really have problems with getting to know how those countries can't separate one form the other, whereas Russia allegedly can do so.

How it's manifested today? I don't know.