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Titolo: Estonia Fetes Nazi Past, Infurating Officials, Foreign Jews

 Estonia Fetes Nazi Past, Infurating Officials, Foreign Jews
August 09, 2007 
Igor Serebryany 
Jewish Telegraphic Agency 
MOSCOW 
Estonia's commemoration of its pro-German World War II past, including the
re-enactment of a Nazi victory, has outraged European officials and the
Russian Jewish community. 
A week ago, veterans of the Waffen SS 20th Estonian Division celebrated
the anniversary of the first clashes between Estonian pro-German troops
and the Soviet Army in 1941.  
The "Bronze Soldier" 
Young Estonian ultra-rightists also began a week of commemoration by
re-enacting the 1941 Erna Campaign, when a diversionary platoon of 42
Estonian paramilitary volunteers trounced the Soviet Red Army. According
to the semi-official Russian Federal News Agency, the re-enactment
attracted participation from 10 countries, including the United States,
Finland and Germany. 
Recalling its pro-German World War II past has been an annual tradition
for Estonia since the republic seceded from the Soviet Union in 1991. 
Rene van der Linden, chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council
of Europe, said that Estonian efforts to whitewash its Nazi past would be
high on the assembly's agenda when it convenes Oct. 1 in Strasbourg. 
During last week's commemoration, in the small Estonian town of Sinimiae,
elderly veterans from Estonia, Norway and Austria traveled three hours by
charter bus from Tallinn, the Estonian capital. They were accompanied by
dozens of young followers dressed in T-shirts with Nazi symbols, along
with Estonian officials, including Parliament member Trivimi Velliste and
Minister of Defense Jak Aaviksoo. 
Speaking before the gathering, Aaviksoo reportedly called the former SS
commandos "fighters for independence," and Velliste described the Soviet
soldiers as "terrorists." 
Moscow described the Sinimiae event as a "popularization of Nazism." 
Estonia has clashed previously with Moscow over what Russia has called
Estonia's "glorification" of its Nazi past. In January, 150 people were
wounded and more than 1,000 detained in violent street protests in Tallinn
after a bronze statue commemorating a World War II Soviet soldier was
moved from a downtown square to a less prestigious location outside the
city's center. 
Estonia's prewar Jewish population was virtually destroyed during the
country's four years of Nazi occupation. Estonia's small Jewish population
of 3,500 has stayed out of the fray, offering no formal comment on either
the statue removal or this week's commemorative events. 
'Dancing on the Bones' 
Foreign Jews, however, were quite outspoken. 
Boruch Gorin, the Moscow-based spokesman for the Chabad-affiliated
Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia, blasted the commemoration in
Sinimiae, saying the Estonian government and church leaders who supported
it made heroes of "blood-thirsty killers" and were "dancing on the bones"
of Jews killed in the Holocaust. 
The Russian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly repeatedly has drawn
attention to the situation in Estonia, but this will mark the first time
that it will be discussed formally. 
The assembly has 47 member states. Israeli representatives have attended
as observers since 1957, but without voting rights. 
Van der Linden, the assembly chairman, plans to visit Estonia prior to
October. 
"Russian Jewry hopes the assembly will put the lid on this glorification
of Hitler's death squads," said Gorin. "If we let them forget the lessons
of history, we may face such crimes again."
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Ti sembra una cosa così strana che gli estoni stiano dall' altra parte? Non
è forse una cosa logica?

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per un nazi, è logicissimo...

per un nazi, è logicissimo...
La logica è logica. Le opinioni sono opinioni. Io personalmente preferisco
la logica. Ma questa è un opinione. O no?

 la logica.
tu preferisci la logica nazi, e adesso torna a sguazzare nella fogna...

tu preferisci la logica nazi, e adesso torna a sguazzare nella fogna...
La logica è logica e basta.