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2006-12-03 Europe

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Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2006-12-03 12:28|| || Front Page|| [9 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 expect various Estonian officials to fall ill after eating sushi

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-12-03 14:00|| 2006-12-03 14:00|| Front Page Top

#2 "blasphemous">/I>

From a Marxist? Blew the Boggle Meter again.

Posted by .com 2006-12-03 14:04|| 2006-12-03 14:04|| Front Page Top

#3 Why, it wuz so bad it blew the HTML tags, too!

Posted by .com 2006-12-03 14:08|| 2006-12-03 14:08|| Front Page Top

#4 The Soviets re-annexed Estonia and Latvia and Lithuania in June 1940 (Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact) with all the attendant executions and deportations to Siberia. The Germans didn't invade until June 1941. So I can see where the Latvians might dispute the liberation claims.

Posted by ed 2006-12-03 14:33|| 2006-12-03 14:33|| Front Page Top

#5 ~~Latvians~~ Estonians

Posted by ed 2006-12-03 14:34|| 2006-12-03 14:34|| Front Page Top

#6 Ed, pretty much.

BTW, I broke my own tags in the story -- Estonians didn't become independent in 1991, they regained it. Somehow I reversed the strikethrough tag.

I'm a radical libertarian when it comes to free speech. I think the best thing the U.S. let, for example, the Klan do was talk, or the Nazis -- "I hate Illinois Nazis". They, over time, have become objects of scorn.

Estonia (and Europe) is different. You want to have a protest, you better have a permit.
What the story didn't say is that the Nazi flag is already banned in Estonia. This is just extending it to another symbol of totalitarianism (in the Estonians' minds).
I would like to see them enforce it, however. I see young Russians in Estonia running around with sweatshirts with the hammer and sickle and the CCCP. On Victory Day, the Soviet flags will be out. The only thing that will cure it, IMO, is the passage of time, and the veterans of WW2 dying.

Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2006-12-03 16:48|| 2006-12-03 16:48|| Front Page Top

#7 Apparently the Clintons haven't told Russia that FASCISM/NAZISM = NEW COMMUNISM, at least temporily until Years 2015-2020 when Hated Fascist/Nazi America = Well-Meaning but Error-ful Limited Commie Amerika, the mighty USSA = weak anti-sovereign Amer SSR/USR, etc is defeated iff not DESTROYED. Presum that Hillary fails in 2008 but wins in 2012 > after Year 2016 POTUS Hillary will have to deal wid Russian-Chicom Aircraft Carriers + possible anti-American Global Nuke War.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-12-03 23:59|| 2006-12-03 23:59|| Front Page Top

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