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2007-04-29 Europe

Riots in Estonian capital injure 66, causes much damage

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Posted by Fred 2007-04-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Shouldn't that header read "Russian organized thugs riot in Estonia"?

Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins 2007-04-29 08:22|| http://northshorejournal.org]">[http://northshorejournal.org] 2007-04-29 08:22|| Front Page Top

#2 And this is any different than the minority Sunnis in Iraq still trying to exert their power?

The Estonians remember when the Red Army invaded in June 1940 not as liberators but as part of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact between the Soviet Union and National Socialist Germany.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-04-29 08:51|| 2007-04-29 08:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Oddly enough, I think that the Russians will find it much easier to get along with the Estonians if the Estonians brutally crack down on their Russian minority and even expel many of them.

This is because Russians are more comfortable with authoritarian regimes than they are liberal societies. They see the end of Saddam as a tragedy, because the "clarity" of his dictatorship was replaced with the "uncertainty" of democracy.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-04-29 10:19|| 2007-04-29 10:19|| Front Page Top

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