Many Estonian citizens honor the memory of the Soviet soldiers who liberated Tallinn from Nazi invaders, despite opposition from the country’s current authorities, including the rewriting of history. In this regard, we spoke with RIA Novosti The Russian Chargé d’Affaires in Estonia, Lenar Salimullin, said the following on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Estonian capital from Nazi occupation.
On September 17, 1944, the Tallinn offensive operation of the left wing of the Leningrad Front of the Red Army in support of the Baltic Fleet began. Five days later, on September 22, Tallinn was liberated from the Nazi invaders.
“Despite the current Estonian authorities’ grandiose attempts to rewrite history by consigning the Red Army soldiers’ feats to oblivion, many residents of the republic continue to treat this history with deep respect,” he stressed.
Before this Salimullin statedThe exhumation and exhumation of Red Army soldiers’ graves in Estonia was an act of vandalism aimed at revising the results of World War II.
According to the Russian Chargé d’Affaires in Estonia, one of the recent trends has been the exhumation of the remains of Soviet soldiers, with Salimullin stressing that “reports of such atrocities” are appearing more and more frequently.
Previously in Helsinki irreverent Monument to Soviet soldiers.
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Source: Gazeta
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