Comments by "Põhja Ohakas" (@EEX97623) on "Jake Broe"
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"Russia wants the Baltics back" such a weird way of thinking. Estonia was populated after last ice age, with documented artifacts from 9000yrs ago. We are not Slavic, or Russian, we are linguistically and culturally linked with Finland in Finno-Ugric group. We were here long before the tsars, Stalin, and this Putin goblin. Because we were invaded and occupied in a blip of time in the grand scale of things means absolutely nothing, and all our good neighbours agree.
No stories of "denazification", they already tried the "protecting russian speakers" nonsense, no historical fairytales, no lies about "the rus" so it's just simply because under Molotov-Ribbentrop we were occupied, and since regaining independence we've been incredibly successful.
Greetings from Estonia.
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Estonia wanted to be a founding member of NATO in 1949 but we were occupied by the Soviets under Molotov-Ribbentrop. We never accepted occupation, and it was a deception under threat of invasion by force. We had resistance fighters, Forest Brothers, til the 70s. We lost 20% of our population to deportation to gulag,executions, "disappearances". We were russified and had to change our names to be more russian, we weren't allowed our language and culture. Our land was destroyed and polluted. We aren't Slavic people, we're Finno-Ugric with Baltic tribe roots, speaking in a language group twith Finland that has no resemblance to russian. We held our national song festival throughout Soviet occupation and from the 1980s wee started The Singing Revolution, which sparked The Baltic Way with 2 million Baltic people joining hands over 675km from Tallinn through Riga to Vilnius in 1989. The world press took attention, this began the process for our independence.
I'll be clear in saying we have no true history with the colonial neighbour other than invasion and occupation, and want nothing to do with the miserable wasteland.
Greetings from Estonia.
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