Estonian Prime-Minister Andrus Ansip is backing a bill drafted by the Estonian opposition, which commemorates Estonian Nazi collaborators of the 20th SS Division as “freedom fighters” and heroes. This apparently puts the Prime Minister and the Estonian opposition in disagreement with the judgement of both the USSR and the western Allies, who in 1945 declared the SS a war criminal organization for purposes of de-Nazification, and banned all SS men from holding any office or responsibility in the postwar occupation.

In the last few months, Baltic States have really been pushing this agenda of Russian guilt from Soviet times. However, no one clearly understands what needs to be done about the evil deeds of the Soviet Union, since the USSR was made up of all the former states of the Union, including the Baltic States; and contemporary Russians have no relation whatsoever to Lenin and Stalin.

Is it a public relations campaign to get Western financing and more attention to the region in general? Or may be this agenda is a smart way to create tensions and refuse to pay debts owed to Russia for its oil and gas, which previously was pumped into the region for "free". No one knows the real answer (besides Andrus Ansip of course), but to me, as a Russian whose family lost 12 men in World War II, all this is very insulting and looks like pandering to fascism and hatred.