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Russia Accused of Cyber-War Against Estonia 373
earthlingpink writes about the ongoing DDoSing of Estonia. The Guardian is reporting that Russia stands accused of engaging in a three-week-long series of cyber-attacks. Government, banking, and media websites have been targeted. It is unclear whether the attacks are sanctioned or initiated by the Russian Government, but Estonian authorities believe that to be the case. NATO has sent security experts to Tallinn to help beef up defenses. The Estonian defense minister said, "At present, NATO does not define cyber-attacks as a clear military action. This means that the provisions of... collective self-defense, will not automatically be extended to the attacked country... this matter needs to be resolved in the near future."
I can confirm (Score:5, Funny)
As an American-Estonian (1/3 Estonian on my Mother's side), I can confirm that Russia has been attacking my programming project, making it impossible to debug. And THAT boss is why the project isn't done yet! What can I do when all of Russia is against me?
Where did I hear about this attack? Uh.. slashd... an on-line news source specializing in technical news of course!
Re:I can confirm (Score:5, Funny)
How can you be ONE THIRD something? I'd understand 1/2 or 1/4 or 1/8 (etc.)
Or, perhaps, you're 1/3 SWEDISH. }:->
(I know I'd be downmodded for this, but I HAD to say it)
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Ménage à trois?
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Son: Daddy, where did I come from?
Dad: Well son, when a man, and a woman, and another woman love each other very much...
Russia or Russians? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Russia or Russians? (Score:5, Informative)
It didn't make US news, of course, but Estonia just had some of the first riots in their capital, Talin. Lately, the Estonian government has been removing Soviet war memorials because, well, they partly respresented the Soviets ruling their country. Just like the Russians have been doing in Moscow, they remove them all and have a single statue garden (they are historical, after all).
However, when they removed one statue of a Soviet soldier in a cemetary, thousands of Russians living in Estonia started protesting. Now, maybe the Russian population just liked that particular statue, but there were rumors that Russian agents were stirring up trouble just to stir up trouble.
Russia's been flexing its muscles across Eastern Europe again. They've been punishing "bad" countries which disobey them. First the riots (which were suspected to be caused by Moscow), now cyber attacks. Neither are outright military moves, but they sure as hell get the message across.
Combined with the recent crackdown on free media and opposition in Russia, it sounds like life might get interesting in 5 years. It seems that, with America's short attention span focused on Iraq, Russia has been putting the pieces in place to recapture former glory.
Do you think that after 50 years that Boris the Soviet simply retired to the countryside? Or has he just been waiting patient for the right opportunity?
Maybe I just haven't had enough coffee this morning to make the conspiracy theories go away.
Re:Russia or Russians? (Score:5, Insightful)
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How is deporting thousands of people to Siberia "undoing his mistakes"? Stalin was just a ruthless vile dictator and IMO the Allies would have done well to destrou the russian army after they'd destroyed the german army at the end of the 2nd world war. Then we wouldn't have had 50 years of idiot communists in Moscow oppressing half of europe and threatening world peace.
Moron.
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As for 'vile dictator'... Europe would have been conquered completely if it was not for USSR.
But there's no such thing as a gratitude in international politics. Russia understood this well in 90-s.
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How dare you call it 'occupation'??
Let's see. It's a statement of the obvious. And there's no risk involved to the teller. What "daring" was needed to called it what it was?
Stalin was just undoing mistakes of his predecessors - including giving independency from Russian Empire to Estonia in 1918.
And the world would have been better off if those "mistakes" remained uncorrected. Also, Stalin was one of the biggest mistakes that the Soviets ever made. They should have killed him in the late 20's when
Re:Russia or Russians? (Score:5, Interesting)
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The point still is that there are rumors that the Russian government is stirring up trouble in Estonia and other Baltic states. There's no hard proof, but this and the statue incident make things look awful suspicious. Is it past the conspiracy theory-type stuff yet? Maybe not.
Is
Yuschenko and the CIA revolution? (Score:2)
Re:Yuschenko and the CIA revolution? (Score:4, Informative)
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Russians have been moving a lot of statues to statue gardens, especially some of the old baddies (Stalin era folk). The Estonians were doing the same thing with a lot of old Soviet statues.
The statue in question wasn't of anyone "bad" per se - it was just a soldier. The question is, does the statue represent a war memorial or a memorial of Soviet domination of Estonia? To an ethn
The real outcome of the attacks (Score:3, Interesting)
How would you you fight a DDoS attack and make sure all non-bot users have access?
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reminds of (Score:5, Insightful)
before 9/11 in early 2001, a chinese jet fighter bumped a us spy plane it was trying to harass away. the chinese fighter crashed and the pilot was never found, and the spy plane was forced to make an emergency landing on hainan island, where the chinese stripped the plane of equipment and then returned the crew to the usa
what happened for a few tense weeks was a lot of nationalistic chest thumping by chinese and american hackers: chinese hackers defacing poorly patched american servers, everything from small businesses to government systems, and american hackers defacing chinese servers: schools and government (i remember this well as i had a box that was hacked: my home page was replaced with a chinese flag and a "fuck usa", heh)
the point is, it's probably not official, it's probably by an independent group of weakly organized russian hackers upset due to nationalistic pride
the trigger for them is that statue that estonia got rid of in tallinn, which russians probably view as thousands of dead soldiers in the defense of estonia from the nazis, and estonia being ungrateful, and estonians viewing as an example of soviet domination, and a symbol of the past cold war era, and russians trying to retain their dominance
regardless, i expect some pissed off estonian hackers soon to plaster "in soviet russia, estonia hackers hack you!" all over pravda.ru, or something
Maybe (Score:3, Insightful)
the point is, it's probably not official, it's probably by an independent group of weakly organized russian hackers upset due to nationalistic pride
Given that it is now Putin's Russia, I'm not so sure. I wouldn't be at all surprised if there were some winking and nodding coming from the Russian security apparatus.
i might be inclined to agree with you (Score:2)
ehem, cough
whistling nonchalantly, strolling away...
hello brawling estonians and russians (Score:5, Funny)
please be accusing each other's mothers of various acts of bestiality and extreme promiscuity, and do not go lightly on the creative threats of violence, including skewering the eyes with pokers, and the twisting of testicles in various farm machinery. proper english grammar is optional, in fact, it is better if your english grammar is nonexistent
ok, my popcorn is ready, any russian want to respond to the above estonian?
go!
dude (Score:3, Insightful)
bu if you ask you me anyways, my personal attitude is that you poor poles, lithuanians, latvians and estonians have been the battleground of the power struggle between berlin and moscow for centuries. i champion the underdog and the little guy, and that's obviously estonia in this case, so i'm with you:
fuck
there are two themes playing here (Score:2)
i think the former is far more important than the latter, because the former is current, and the latter is dim and fading history (albeit emotional)
and yes, i think the usa would be raising an outcry if france were moving the cemetaries of its war dead. however, i also think that vichy france doesn't represent all of french attitude at the time, nor do i think that the usa is currently e
Re:dude (Score:4, Insightful)
Since you remind about holocaust, remember gulag. Millions of people from Baltic states died there. And deportations started one year before Germany attacked SSSR.
Americans haven't occupied France and Belgium for 45 years. Russians haven't liberated Estonia. In 1944 Estonia one occupant was replaced by other. If Sadam's statue is erected in Kuwait, do people of Kuwait have to leave it in front of emir's palace after Iraqies are gone. Did Russians had to leave Stalin next to Lenin in Mausoleum after 1953.
bullshit (Score:2)
fine, i don't have a problem with that. remove the staute, go ahead. i don't side with the russians, i side with the estonians, the little guys in this fight
but don't think for a moment think you sit high in your ivory tower completely clean and unlike the act
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The statue has also practical meaning.
It has become focus point of Russian nationalists in Estonia who are Estonian version of neo nazis. Given any excuses those nationalists used to gather near the statue, get drunk and start breaking places, and in
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but they didn't
because estonians are proud people
and they have every right to be
look, i am on estonia's side on this issue, but please stop pretending nationalistic pride is only something that fuels the russians. it fuels the estonians as well
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there is nothing wrong with supporting estonian nationalism in the face of russian nationalism
there is everything wrong thinking estonian nationalism doesn't exist
russians are nationalistic and estonians aren't? bullshit
nationalistic pride is an equal opportunity idiocy, it does not discriminate based on race or religio
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why does the idea bother you so much? why do you have trouble admitting estonian nationalism?
the issue is not that i press nationalism as a motivation over the tallinn statue, the issue is that you fail to admit it
why not just admit that estonian nationalism exists and is part of the motivation?
unless you believe that estonian nationalism doesn't exist, or is in someway beyond reproach
all you have to do is admit it exists as a motivating factor, and i have no argumen
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and i probably am a dolt. better a dolt than a closet nationalist
i'm not the one who seems to be so so bothered by my insistence on the existence of estonian nationalism
and i need no quote to support that assertion. i merely need to point out your continued existence this deep in this thread
if the idea i am presenting to you didn't bother you, y
i'm certain (Score:2)
a lot of germans were too (duh)
but we can talk to germans nowadays without thinking of them as nazis, and i think we can do that with estonians too, right?
however, today, right now, russians are getting rather imperialistic over their little neighbors
do you think the crimes of russia from today are excused by crimes of estonians from yesterday?
tell that (Score:2)
ObPrisoner quote (Score:2)
(pointedly) "Estonian."
(smirk) "Russian."
(glare) "_We_ don't think so."
Economix (Score:2, Interesting)
we must not allow a Cyber-War gap .. (Score:2)
Seriously though, the US should have allowed the commie bastards join NATO when they wanted, instead of creating the ideal conditions for starting WW3.
Oh yeah? (Score:2)
Re:Oh yeah? (Score:5, Funny)
That's why in Hunt for Red October, Sean Connery says "ping -c 1 sub.navy.mil" (or simply "One ping only")
That joke worked so well in my head :-(
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I don't think, though, that it could have been pulled off verbally.
Actually this has happened before, to the USA (Score:5, Informative)
Cut Russia off the net (Score:5, Interesting)
Most of the botnets in the world are controlled by Russian mafia. The rest of the world is spending an insane amount of time, money and effort defending against these attacks that orginate 90% from one part of the world. It's like criminally created welfare program, and we're all paying.
Re:Cut Russia off the net (Score:5, Insightful)
So if we cut their IP blocks off from the world beacuse of botnets, what other excuses could we use? Well, China supports terrorism, so lets cut them off too. And both Koreas. And the entire middle east. Etc.
Also, the hackers would end up proxying through another set of IPs and getting to where they need to be anyway. And could write up their bots to do the same.
That said, don't use technical solutions for social problems. The problem is the governments of the countries in question don't care. They can deny involvement but still watch their enemies writhe. It should be treated as if a stream of foreign nationals marched out of their country and into ours, guns drawn. And that their government is doing nothing to stop them.
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Can't proxy anywhere without a route.
Traceroute your connections for a while as you connect over the world and you'll see some reoccurring names. Those are backbone owners, and they make contracts with each other to route traffic through their nets. Say my country fails so bad at keeping me in check online that my entire country gets its routes cut off, I can't connect to the rest of the world beca
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Playing host to DDOS-bots is one of those 'you just sent troops to shoot up a trailer park' moments and is definately frowned upon. Its like the USPS delivering a thousand or more letters of spam to your house in one day.
Eventually pressure on the USPS would cause them to stop accepting 1000 messages at the same time for EACH ADDRESS IN THE CITY. They should do this. Don't RBL their IPs, but if repetitive traffic like this keeps coming out, throt
What Eastern Block? (Score:2)
Neuromancer (Score:2)
"Too young to remember the war, aren't you, Case?" Armitage ran a
large hand back through his cropped brown hair. A heavy gold bracelet
flashed on his wrist. "Leningrad, Kiev, Siberia. We invented you in Siberia,
Case."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"Screaming Fist, Case. You've heard the name."
"Some kind of run, wasn't it? Tried to burn this Russian nexus
wit
Welcome to the New War... (Score:2)
Murdering dissidents and instigating unrest in various parts of the world.
The question is how we'll finance our side of the war this time around what with Baby Boomers getting ready to suck the federal tit dry and a feckless Congress that can't stick to a war when the going gets tough.
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And yes, I do find the choice of the acronym highly ironic.
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It seems some Wikipedia editors have a sense of humour after all...
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High doses of caffeine, of course. Or what kind of person do you think would be a soldier in that war, huh?
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Paragraph and line number, please. It appears to me as though you've invented your accusation out of whole cloth.
YHBT. YHL. HAND. (Score:2)
To stop those trolls 1-2-3
Here's a fresh new way that's trouble free
It's got Paul Anka's guarantee...
(Guarantee void in Tennessee)
Just don't look!
Just don't look!
Re:Common Sense (Score:5, Insightful)
You haven't got a clue.
A DDOS attack is basically an attempt to saturate the capacity of the target. The "distributed" part means that it is difficult to screen out the attackers because the machines are on so many different subnets. The flaws that a DDOS relies on are not in the attacked systems, but in the attacking ones which have been compromised and have had software installed that makes them a "bot". A network of these "bots" are then coordinated by the attacker.
And if you think that shutting down the websites of pretty much every government institution, bank and commercial enterprise in a highly connected country like Estonia amounts to "a few eggs thrown over the fence" then just think what it would do your nations economy.
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"getting websites shutdown" is straight from the article though.
Does anyone really believe we're talking about websites here?
What do they teach in news reporter school?
Re:Common Sense (Score:4, Informative)
For the love of freedom, just patch the boxes and shut up!
You just don't get it do you? A DDOS is not indicative of a flaw in the systems under attack, it is using the regular means of access to the systems (HTTP requests mostly) but doing it on a massive scale from machines around the world taht have been compromised. Or are you suggesting that Estonian sysadmins perform the impossible and patch all these lousy Windows boxes on various ISP accounts around the world?
Unless you've experienced a large scale DDOS or read the detailed summary of how one was handled then all I can suggest is looking at some descriptions of what a DDOS is. Wikipedia is a good start. Our Payment Service Provider received a blackmail threat a couple of years ago, and then experienced a massive ten day long DDOS attack. Once it was over they provided us with a very detailed account of the attack. What impressed me was the sheer number of machines used in the attack and how evenly spread around the world they were. Trying to contact the relevant sysadmins or ISPs for these machines was simply not feasible.
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Always depends on bugs? Well, that's sometimes true, but you make it sound like a piece of cake to eliminate bugs. We've had computers around for a good number of years now, and that hasn't happened yet! Even a project like OpenBSD has had several SEVERE flaws over its lifespan in the core software--not counting flaws in typical addon software. (This is not meant to attack OpenBSD because I think frankly it's the best we've got! I use it on my firewall..)
Not to
Re:Common Sense (Score:5, Interesting)
But that doesn't make cyber attack bullshit. That's like saying that land invasions are a made up boogeyman because they depend on flaws like "not having a giant impregnable wall surrounding your country." DDoS attacks, in particular, are problematic. A given target has no way to prevent zombied machines from participating in the attack.
Besides which, a DDoS attack is just a bandwidth race. If my home PC were to be attacked like this, there's nothing I, personally, can do about it. My router won't pass any of the packets to my machine, but if there's 6 Mbps worth of incoming traffic, even if I drop it at the router, I still can't get much legit traffic through. I can call my provider, and see if they can stop it upstream, but then it's just a comparison of the bandwidth at the DSLAM to the bandwidth of the attacker. The only thing to hope for is that, somewhere up the chain, you can reach a node with enough bandwidth that the attacker can't overwhelm it. When you start getting up into backbone territory, this isn't a problem.
But - if we hypothesize for the moment an actual planned assault by a country - odds are pretty good that the US DoD, for example, has more bandwidth than Iran.
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Deja vu! (Score:2)
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Every last russian, who is willing to learn the national language is granted citizenship in Estonia
Education is available (on all levels) in both Estonian and Russian
Re:They forgot something. (Score:5, Informative)
Vandalized? Moved to cemetery where it belongs.
Estonia is seen as a neo-fascist regime by Russia, and in my opinion, rightly so
Russia is seen as imperialist regime by Estonia, and in my opinion, rightly so
you can't deny over 30% of your population [estimate of Russian population in Estonia] the most basic rights, including citizenship
You learn the language, pass one exam and voila - the citizenship is yours.
and education for children based on their nationality, and be seen otherwise.
We have schools for Russian-speaking children where most of the subjects are taught in Russian. Unbelievable, yes?
Of course, Europe and the United States ignore this issue.
And Russians ignore the reality. I'm sorry if you do not agree.
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Cases with Finland and Canada are very different (Score:3, Insightful)
PS. In Finland there has been much discussion about making Finnish the only
Re:They forgot something. (Score:5, Informative)
Nope the starting point of this was the relocation of a large statue of a Soviet soldier from central Tallinn to a Soviet Army military cemetery on the outskirts of the city. The Estonians were occupied twice by the Soviet Union, once at the beginning of World War II and again at the end. The second occupation was billed as a liberation of Estonia by the Soviets, but both times large numbers of Estonians were deported to labour camps in the east of the Soviet Union, many to never return. As a result, the statue came to symbolise the occupation of Estonia, and it was felt it should not be in the centre of the countries capital.
During the Soviet era, a large number of ethnic Russians were settled in Estonia and a program of Russification carried out that tried to extinguish Estonian language and culture. This was a common policy across the Soviet Union, as it was seen as a way of preventing a future break up of the union. The Putin government plays on the tensions amongst these former Soviet populations as a way of reasserting Russias importance in the region.
The bodies that are often mentioned in the news reports are actually located some distance from the original site of the statue. They have been located (there was no sign of their presence above ground) under a tram stop and road junction. Excavation was carried out, and the coffins relocated to the same cemetery as the statue. This is in accordance with war graves agreements that are part of internation law.
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As to who is doing the "cyber attacks". It's hard to determine the origin of a DDoS attack, but the timing and context seems to point to Russian intervention. However, this is unlikely to
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Russia lost 30 millions (yes, millions) of people in WWII - there's no WAY to recover all dead bodies, unfortunately. But there's still about 300 active salvage parties in Russia, they search for remains of dead soldiers, identify them and then rebury with military honors.
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Be careful with your words too. While the post you were replying to failed to make the distinction between ordinary Soviet citizens and their leaders (Stalin and his cohorts cared little about the human cost of defeating the Axis powers), you state that 30 million Russians died in WWII. They were not only Russians but citizens from across the Soviet Union. This is why it's less likely that a statue that commerates the sacrifice of the ordinary Soviet soldier would be removed from the centre of somewhere lik
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As for monuments... Well, Ukrainian nationalists in L'vov are going to remove Soviet war memorial: http://www.nr2.ru/lvov/118316.html [nr2.ru] (and already removed memorials to a famous Russian WWII spy). Poland also wants to remove all of the USSR memorials.
That's why I think it's important to show to all estonias of this world that Russia does care about war memorials.
BTW, Hungary wa
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They were offered Estonian citizenship after the collapse of the Soviet Union and Estonian independence. Many ethnic Russians chose not to take it, but remained in the country.
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They were required to pass Estonian language and history exam. They were NOT granted citizenship automatically.
Re:They forgot something. (Score:5, Insightful)
Let me give you another perspective on this. You can decide whether or not you want to stick to your guns here. Are you by any chance married to a Russian woman? Because if you are, that will certainly inhibit your ability to see the other side.
Estonia was under Russian control until 1918. It remained an independent nation until 1940, when the USSR invaded it. Germany occupied it from 1941 to 1944. During the 1 year or so of Soviet occupation prior to the Nazi invation, the Soviets did such nice things as kill the intellectuals and forcibly conscript Estonians into the Red Army. I can't say it's any wonder that as in Ukraine (where Stalin and his henchmen had killed and starved to death millions of Ukrainians in the 1930s), the locals viewed the Nazis as liberators and then found out that they were just as bad if not worse as the Soviets. Do note that the USA never recognized the Soviet occupation of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. NEVER. It's important to know that for over 50 years, official US policy was that the occupation of these 3 countries was illegal.
After WWII ended, Estonia was screwed. They were part of the Soviet Union. The Soviets moved hundreds of thousands of Russian speaking immigrants into Estonia in an attempt to "Russify" it and to dilute Estonian nationalism. Estonian freedom fighters fought a small scale guerilla war against the USSR into the early 1950s when they finally gave up and realized it was hopeless.
During the USSR period, Russian was the official language in education. It was possible to have education in whatever the local language was (Krushchev made some changes that allowed this), but there was a catch - if you wanted to get a good job, you absolutely had to speak Russian well. Given that Russian and Estonian are about as closely related as English is to Polish, you might understand that Estonian parents had no choice but to send their kids to Russian language schools so as to give them the best chance to prosper in the USSR.
Cut to 1991 when Estonia gets its independence. They now have a rather large Russian speaking population who they were forced to accept by a government that no longer exist. These people have never assimilated into Estonian society. In fact, they were encouraged immigrate there specifically to dilute Estonia's sense of national identity and to turn them into "good little Soviet subjects". These immigrants have never bothered to learn the Estonian language since Russian was the official language of the government prior to 1991. Now you have all these people who say "Screw you! We want to speak Russian!" in a country where the majority of citizens speak the local language, Estonian. They demand that everything be done in Russian so they can understand it. The Estonians never wanted to speak Russian to begin with, so they are promoting the use of their national language. Now you have about 26% of the population who refuses to "get with the program", demands that their language be given equal footing with the national tongue and even worse, feels that things were a lot better back when they were in charge and the stupid locals were taking orders from them. So given that Estonia never wanted the Soviets/Russians there to begin with and the Soviets weren't exactly enlightened when they ran the show, can you really blame them for not being real happy with Russia today? By the way, ethnic Russians can become Estonian citizens, but they have to take
Well said. (Score:2)
If the russians want to make a big deal out of those statues the estonians moved , perhaps the estonians should ask the russians - where are the statues for the estonians your government deported to siberia??
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A different Estonian perspective (Score:2, Interesting)
- The memory of WW2 is, hopefully obviously for most Slashdotters, very very important for all Russians wherever they may live.
- The monument in question was the prime memorial spot, primarily for the Russian population, to commemorate the war and the victory, in the country.
- The monument in question - quite inoffensive statue of a mourning soldier in Soviet uniform - had stood at its spot for 60 years, including all of Estonia's
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Man, my ironymeter just went off the scale.
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After Estonia became independent all persons who's forefathers had been citizens of Estonia before Soviet occupation were granted automatic citizenship, this group also included Russians that had arrived before the occupation. In 1992 about 32% of peoples in Estonia didn't have any citizenship, these are the people who's forefathers became to the country Russianize the country. As Estonian government didn't want
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Also, not really sure why it matters what Russia thinks of Estonia's government. At the very best that's a pot/kettle situation, but more likely its just blatant
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Re:Why Is This In Politics??!!! (Score:5, Insightful)
The politics section originally started out I believe a year or two ago to cover the election and resulting aftermath of "ZOMG BUSH GOT LESS VOTES!" type story. It has since become a more rounded section and carries stories from all over the world under it's banner, because you know "Stuff that matters" is quite often political.
I mean when people start having wars via the Internet (as this rather implies is happening in some twisted form) it starts to effect us geeks as well. So we discuss it on Slashdot and because it's political based they used the politics banner.
I feel sorry for you if you can't see that the FAQ maybe outdated and this has been this way for a good few months (maybe 12+) now, so decide to grind your axe on a stone that's been here longer than you probably have (Anoncow has no ID so I can't tell from your number, but I have to assume you're new if you don't understand the politics section).
Re:Why Is This In Politics??!!! (Score:5, Funny)
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But just to invalidate your point. America is a continent, to be born there makes you American, the common American-usage is someone from the United states of America. But either way, believing or not believing in Evolution is not something needed for an American passport, nor American citizenship, which would be two very big features of being American.
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Which is why unfortunately the GP was wrong, and the world is evolving around America.
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in honour of the Russian soldiers that died occupying Estonia
Nice try, it was put there for the soldiers that died freeing the country of the Nazis. What happened during the occupation is a different matter but don't try to rewrite history.
Since you are using the "If the US..." metaphor then how about if US war cemetaries in France and Belgium were dug up and moved and the monuments carted off? I think we'd be pretty upset.
Funny that you should mention Israel in your comment. Seeing as the Baltic states collaborated with the Nazis in exterminating Jews [wikipedia.org].
I a
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I've never heard an apology from the Russians for the 2 years of collusion between Germany and the USSR brought about by the Nazi Soviet Pact, which resulted in the occupation and division of Poland, annexation of the Baltic States and mass deportations to the gulag. Not to mention the endless pr
Re:Man, what a manipulative way of putting things (Score:2)
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