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2007-04-27 Europe

For the first time since 1944, Russians sack Tallinn, Estonia

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Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2007-04-27 12:21|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Mizzou Mafia, did I read that right? You are in Estonia right now?

Posted by Laurence of the Rats">Laurence of the Rats 2007-04-27 15:36|| 2007-04-27 15:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Liberators? Pfft I think not.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2007-04-27 15:48|| 2007-04-27 15:48|| Front Page Top

#3 You read that right. I'm your Tallinn corespondent.

Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2007-04-27 15:56|| 2007-04-27 15:56|| Front Page Top

#4 Six days without alcohol sales! The Finns must be fleeing town as fast as the ferry boats can move them.

Posted by dogsbody">dogsbody 2007-04-27 16:18|| 2007-04-27 16:18|| Front Page Top

#5 Sorry to hear that Mizzou. Although, I've noticed with the russians that most things they do don't end well.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-04-27 16:36|| 2007-04-27 16:36|| Front Page Top

#6 The Finns are going to have a rough go. A lot of them come down traditionally for May 1. They are going to find a dry country.

I'm watching E-TV now. Massive beatdowns in the last couple hours outside the Old Town.

Stores destroyed, but not as bad as last night. The police are bringing out the heavy weaponry.

Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2007-04-27 16:47|| 2007-04-27 16:47|| Front Page Top

#7 Russia, which has had troubled ties with Estonia since it won independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, has protested against the plan to move the World War Two monument as an insult to those who fought fascism.

Memo to Russia: Fighting fascism only to install Soviet totalitarianism doesn't count for much in the way of liberation.

Mizzou Mafia, thank you so much for the local angle! A Rantburg exclusive, woot!

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-04-27 18:09|| 2007-04-27 18:09|| Front Page Top

#8 like i said in an earlier comment i thought the war in chechnya was over. and yes i know this insn't chechnya but sure sounds like the russians are trying too run shit gain in the region

Posted by sinse 2007-04-27 18:38|| 2007-04-27 18:38|| Front Page Top

#9 We're moving some bases out of England, should put them there.

Posted by anonymous2u 2007-04-27 20:07|| 2007-04-27 20:07|| Front Page Top

#10 Mizzou Mafia - Be careful, and keep the first-hand reports coming if you can. There's zip on the news in the US about this stuff.

Posted by Laurence of the Rats">Laurence of the Rats 2007-04-27 21:51|| 2007-04-27 21:51|| Front Page Top

#11 Estonia is a member of the EU, and more interestingly of course, NATO - doesn't seem mother russia can do much other than huff and puff.

Should present some interesting opportunities for the Estonian court system, though.

Here's an interesting question - does the EU have common or shared jails/prisons/coolers? If they're so set on unity, it would be cute if they could bundle off the arrested to holding cells in, say, Portugal, just for a few days.

Wonder how the russians would react to that, and how the EU would consider it?

Posted by Unomomble Guelph4369 2007-04-27 23:36|| 2007-04-27 23:36|| Front Page Top

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