Complex of the past

My grandfather ended the war in the Baltic states, and then served there, and when I was little, my grandmother very often told me how they lived in Tallinn after the war. How they were afraid to speak Russian even in a whisper, how they didn’t leave the house unless it was necessary, how they tried to learn at least some Estonian words in order to communicate at the market, and how at the same market they almost knocked out her eyes and threw them in the back when potatoes , when beets. So from childhood I knew for sure whether the Estonians were happy with their “liberation” or not.

I myself was in Tallinn not too long ago. Nice, calm city. During the entire time, no one said a bad word to us; they did not refuse to speak to us in Russian; on the contrary, they smiled. Even young guys, for example, in a cafe, tried to answer something in Russian, although they no longer learned it at school. From which I drew a simple conclusion: if you come to a country with good intentions and spend money there, you will be treated normally.

I also saw the monument to the Soviet Soldier-Liberator. I also remember being surprised: how it hasn’t been removed yet. Although the place where he stands seemed strange. There really is a stop nearby, the place is not very formal. It was a shame that I thought that the Warrior had been moved there on purpose - at that time the scandal had not yet begun, and I knew nothing about this monument. But now it seems as if Estonia has nothing more important to do than the bronze Soldier.

Well, everyone has their own complexes. Russia has big complexes, so it is already in

openly at war with America. Estonia's complexes are small according to their scale, and it is at war with a specific monument. Estonians behave stupidly, although before the elections everyone and everywhere behaves stupidly to one degree or another. Lithuanian President Adamkus said it well: “We have many monuments, we drive past them every day and simply don’t notice them.” You need to know the past, but there is no point in fighting it, because it is impossible to win.

Although somewhere I can understand them. Estonians and I generally have different points of view on the war. In the literal sense of the word - the points from which we and they look at those events. The Soviet Union occupied Estonia even before Hitler, and if Hitler was in this territory for only four years, then the USSR was for half a century. And repressions, and collectivization, and exile camps - all this happened. And no matter how strange it may seem, the damage from the Soviet occupation was greater than from the German one (we always believed that there was nothing worse than Hitlerism). And I can very well imagine that a soldier in a Soviet uniform is associated primarily with the regime that Estonians consider occupational, with an era that they consider the darkest in their history.

And we consider the Great Patriotic War the most heroic, most worthy page

its history. Moreover, the soldiers who fought on Estonian soil least of all thought that someone would be occupied. My grandfather certainly didn’t think so. He fought against fascism, and he defeated it!

This is such a completely different associative series. And it cannot be changed. And there is no way to defeat this past, there is no way to remake it. It would be simpler and more correct for the Estonians to do as the Lithuanians do - simply not notice. It's worth it. Time will pass, perhaps quite a lot of time, and there will be no survivors, no “forest brothers”, no one whose place of birth is the USSR, and the issue will be resolved by itself. Perhaps the monument will be removed, or perhaps it will be left, as it will no longer annoy anyone. After all, it was once unthinkable to imagine that memorial signs would be erected on the Borodino field in honor of the soldiers of the Napoleonic army and they would begin to sell souvenirs with the symbols of the “French occupiers.”

No, Estonia is “on fire”! She doesn't want to wait, she can't just walk by without noticing.

It's a pity. I can understand why the day of the liberation of Tallinn by the Red Army is not a holiday for them, but I cannot understand why it is mourning? After all, the Red Army expelled the fascists from the city, and here another associative series is built: the day of the expulsion of the fascist army from the city is declared a mourning date. How is that? This, in my opinion, is not normal. This is not just a complex, this is no longer just stupidity.

And let's not forget about one more thing. In Russia, the idea of ​​a “hostile environment” is more popular than ever, along with jingoism for every reason. Estonia simply provides a trump excuse for various hysterics. Why is this necessary?

And if the matter becomes final and irrevocable, then I propose that Russia take over the maintenance of the cemetery of Soviet soldiers, and buy the monument and transport it here. Since they can't see him at all, why force people to look at him?