I'm a RUSSOphile, dammit, not a Slavophile! :)
I couldn't tell you, just reporting what I was told. He says it's obvious if you read or watch the Estonian media.
--- Willy Greenfields <filthydirtyunwashed at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> If I can mix metaphors, I'd say he's smoking too
> much
> of the Rodina Kool Aid.
>
> Woj's answer here is very good. The histories are
> complicated, and I haven't seen any popular
> scholarship that tries to disaggregate German Nazis
> operating in the Baltics from locals who
> enthusistically supported the Nazi cause from those
> who opportunistically threw weight behind the
> Germans
> to repel the Soviets from nationalist partisans from
> post-Soviet ethnic Balts giving a petty and truly
> inappropriate middle finger to resented Russians
> both
> in the Baltics and in Russia itself.
>
> Cynical political entrepreneurs - be they mundane
> Baltic Russophobes, anti-Semitic Baltic fascists,
> the
> ADL, Soviet apologists, or expat Slavophiles (insert
> smiley emoticon; sorry for putting you in such
> company, by the way) - fixate on one element to the
> exclusion of all others. Ultimately, I'd say it's
> all
> probably too tangled up to tease apart meaningfully.
>
>
>
>
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