One fact to consider:hodjaJune 9 2008, 14:33:18 UTC
The actual persons in power in Estonia (and many other places in the former Communist Block and USSR) haven't changed much. Most of the people in positions of power, first and foremost prime minister Andrus Ansip, are former commies. Just year before this "singing revolution", Ansip gave fiery speeches about the dangers of nationalism at Estonian communist party meetings. Fortunately, the transcripts are available (I can't find an English translation, unfortunately). The reason why the other communists did not perform mas killings (or put up any resistance whatsoever beyond what was necessary for the nice revolutionary imagery) because it was the communist party's policy at that time to divide up the riches of the USSR among themselves and consolidate their power as wealthy business-people and acceptable (in the West, that is) politicians. In Estonia and Latvia (and, to some extent, in some other former Soviet republics) in order to avoid lustration or, in fact, any responsibility for the crimes of the communist regime, these commies-turned-nationalists made a scapegoat of "Russians" (which, in practice, means anyone of non-Estonian or non-Lativan ethnicity) and bribed the majority of the population at the expense of the "occupiers" in the most disgusting ways, turning them into accomplices in crime in the best Nazi traditions.
The reason why the other communists did not perform mas killings (or put up any resistance whatsoever beyond what was necessary for the nice revolutionary imagery) because it was the communist party's policy at that time to divide up the riches of the USSR among themselves and consolidate their power as wealthy business-people and acceptable (in the West, that is) politicians.
In Estonia and Latvia (and, to some extent, in some other former Soviet republics) in order to avoid lustration or, in fact, any responsibility for the crimes of the communist regime, these commies-turned-nationalists made a scapegoat of "Russians" (which, in practice, means anyone of non-Estonian or non-Lativan ethnicity) and bribed the majority of the population at the expense of the "occupiers" in the most disgusting ways, turning them into accomplices in crime in the best Nazi traditions.
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