From: viznyuk@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet,talk.politics.soviet
Subject: Re: DEMOCRATIC Estonia
Date: 4 Sep 92 20:14:16 EDT

In article <1992Sep4.223612.1@cc.helsinki.fi>, thietaniemi@cc.helsinki.fi writes:
> 
> The Estonian law on citizenship gave direct access to citizenship to
> the descendants of the citizens of Estonian republic (1918-1940) that was 
> unjustly (I suppose no one nowadays accepts this Stalinist Anschluss?)
> occupied by the Soviet Union. Some percentage of them are of Russian/
> Ukrainian etc. origin - there is no "ethnic" legislation of citizenship
> in Estonia! To naturalize automatically all settlers brought to country 
> by the stalinist rule would have equalled accepting the Stalin-Brezhnev
> policy of liquidating the Estonian nation.

  If Stalin did really had a policy of liquidating the Estonian
nation, he would have done it, and NOBODY could have prevented
it. As he didn't, it proves FOR SURE that his treatment of
Estonians didn't differ from his treatment of all other nations
in former USSR. So your tears-causing words above is just
a usual junk, which is being spreaded by Estonian nationalists
to justify their Stalinist-like internal policies NOW.

> 
> But everyone that has been dwelling two (I must check that?) years in 
> Estonia can apply to citizenship. Some knowledge of Estonian is also
> required.

  The same way, as Somalians CAN apply for US citizenship.
Did you really considered that this your "argument" above has
any weight ?

> 
> To 15.6. 1992 there were about only five thousand Russian-speakers'
> applications for citizenship, which I find very unfortunate.
> But the Russian-speaking population (600.0000) must make the decision 
> whether to apply for Russian/Ukrainian/etc./ or Estonian citizenship!
> So far, the most seem not to have decided! If they choose Russian
> citizenship, they are still able to live and work in Estonian republic
> in the same manner as 300.000 Finns do in Sweden!

  Do you really believe that people would be happy
to become a citizens of a fascist state ?

> 
> During this summer, Estonia has proved itself to be the most progressive
> part of the former IMPERIUM: Estonia has established a (almost ultra-)
> democratic constitution ...

..which permit them to deprive the legally elected
people's deputies of non-Estonian nationality their
mandates, and even put them in jail. Their
"ultra-democratic" constitution also permits Estonia
to engage into an agression against neihboring state,
to say nothing about the fact, that it's oblidged
the Estonian "elected" goverment to consider the third
of population of Estonia as subhuman. Furthermore,
the "ultra-democratic" Estonian constitution de-facto
deprived all non-Estonians the electorial rights -
something unprecedental in Europe since WWII, and
having analogs only among such "ultra-democratic"
states as South Africa, and....well I see no other
examples of such a "ultra-democracy"..

> ...and introduced the new hard Estonian currency,
> the kroon (1 DM equals 8 kroons, the first hard currency in the rouble
> empire).

  Are you kidding ?  This "hard currency" would have
collapsed overnight has it not been artificially
supported by Finnish and Swedish banks, which agreed
to accept it as a legal tender from the very beging
as a "good will" jesture. Do you know how much this
"hard currency" costs in Manhattan ?

> If the gallant political and economic reform in Estonia will 
> be succesful, I would not wonder that even the majority
> of Russian-speaking population might be tempted to choose the
> Estonian citizenship, after all!

  Yeah.., the Russians are already seeing the results
of this "gallant" political and economic "reform"
in Estonia, once they are fleeing in thousands from
there to Russia.

> Thumbs up! :-)
Yawn...

S.V.
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