"Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much." (Oscar Wilde)
Dear Readers:
Russian Diplomat Maria Zakharova is known around the world for her pithy put-downs of Russia's enemies. She is like a Russian, female, version of Oscar Wilde.
In this story, Maria takes on the Estonians. Granted, it's like shooting fish in a barrel, but it's still fun to watch.
The topic is the 80th anniversary
(celebrated last Saturday, March 9) of a Soviet air attack (March 9, 1944) on Nazi-occupied Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. Tallinn was actually bombed many times in the course of WWII. First by the Germans, in the first few days of the war, and later by the Soviets, several times over the next few years, in the course of driving the Germans out.
© Awful AvalancheTallinn residents light candles to commemorate the Soviet bombs.
Apparently the Estonians didn't mind being bombed by the Germans, whom they considered to be their friends, but deeply resented the Soviet bombings. Which is why the Estonian Foreign Ministry decided make a big deal out of the 1944 anniversary. In their communique they termed the enemy bombers as "Russian" rather than "Soviet", and bemoaned the loss of life and property.
While it's true that bombs were not as "smart" in those days, and didn't always hit their target, the target was certainly fascist military formations.
And yet the Estonian government, in its communique, insisted that the "Russians" were deliberately targeting "residential areas and cultural objects, just as they are doing now in the Ukraine."Zakharova commented on her Telegram channel:
"It is no secret to anyone that the current Estonian government associates itself with the Hitlerites... In fact, their rabid Russophobia would be envied by Goebbels himself."
Comment: As noted, this kind of belief and practice isn't uncommon, but could it be, going off the reports, that the concerns of people are increasing?