By Andrew L. Jaffee

I have written many times about Soviet/Russian war crimes, but the mainstream media has generally maintained silent — with a few exceptions. Regarding Estonia’s correct and morally sound decision to dismantle a symbol of Russian conquest and occupation of their homeland, the BBC weighed in:

…But the Estonians believe much of the tension is being whipped up by forces outside the country, i.e. Russia itself.

During the years of Soviet occupation after World War II, tens of thousands of Estonians were killed. And they say their country was effectively colonised with many Russians being brought in as workers and military personnel. …

All these years we’ve heard the politically-correct and UN scream about Israel’s “occupation” of the West Bank and Gaza, but we didn’t hear a peep about what the Russians were doing in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Moldavia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Armenia, etc. … Nor did we hear about China’s occupation of Tibet; Syria’s occupation of Lebanon; Turkey’s occupation of Cyprus; Indonesia’s occupation of East Timor; Iraq, Iran and Turkey’s occupation of the Kurdish homeland; and Russia’s brutal occupation of Chechnya.

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Related: Communism / Socialism, Russia, Baltic States

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