Anxious to join the North-Atlantic alliance and
the European Union, there is no dirty job Estonia wouldn't do to earn NATO's
"appreciation." There were numerous case of Estonian citizens
being caught spying in Russia. For example, in October of 1998 a citizen of
Estonia was caught by security at a military installation in Pskov region,
Russia. The detained man admitted that he was gathering sensitive
information for Estonian intelligence services. These "intelligence
services" were frequently linked to NATO.
In a hurry to fill in the Baltic power vacuum,
NATO countries and the United States in particular will blindly support any
neo-nazi slime in Tallinn for as long as there is a promise of increased
Anglo-American influence in the tiny Baltic state. It's not the small
territory or non-existent natural resources of the country that the
Americans are after, but the country's strategic location in relation to
Russia and it's Baltic Fleet. Gaining political and military influence in
the Baltics was always the most sacred desire of the Cold Warriors on the
Capitol Hill. Consumed by the annoying illusions of the New World Order,
American government and NATO leadership drag their countries and people into
supporting Estonian fascists.
The problem of resurgence of fascism, of course,
is not limited only to Estonia, it also propagates down to Latvia and
Lithuania. Both countries actively supported marches, meetings and other
public activities of former Waffen SS members and other extremists, while
suppressing the human and civil rights of ethnic minorities, such as
Russian, Ukrainian and others. Some of you may have a question at this
point: why did I decide to pick on poor, little Estonia, when there are
larger and far more powerful countries in Europe and elsewhere that harbor
neo-nazi organizations? What makes Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania so
important is their strategic location for European security (and for
Anglo-American New World Order fantasies). When national interests of many
powerful nations concentrate in a couple of small countries governed by
camouflaged fascists, the potential for growth of neo-nazism in these
countries and around them is limitless and so are the effects of this growth
on European and world politics.
SS War Veterans Rally in Estonia
"July, 1998. Some 1,500 Estonian war
veterans, mostly SS men but also survivors of the 1918-20 war of
independence from tsarist Russia, gathered for their annual reunion in
Tallinn on 11 July. However, unlike the reunion of Latvian SS Legion members
in March, no government officials or army officers participated, and the
rally took place without incident and without international protests. While
critics said it was inappropriate to celebrate the activities of men who
fought on the side of a nation which murdered millions of Jews, the
organizers of the event emphasized that the participants had fought,
unsuccessfully, in order to prevent the Soviets from taking over their
country, and not for the Nazis. Both the Latvian and Estonian SS legions
were declared non-criminal by the international war trials court in
Nuremberg after World War II, since many of the men were illegally
conscripted by the Nazis."
(source: The Project for the Study of
Anti-Semitism, Tel Aviv University)
Well, that's refreshing: "legal" nazis
march in Europe and there are no international protests, because they...
fought the Russians, or did they? The vast majority of Estonian, Latvian and
Lithuanian SS troopers volunteered to serve well before there was even a
hint of a Russian return to the Baltics. Think about this: when these people
said they want to serve their Fuhrer by joining the ranks of the glorious
Waffen SS, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia were under complete German
occupation with no Soviets in sight. Sure, they tried to prevent Soviets
from taking over years later, but this was a part of German agenda and it
certainly had nothing to do with "liberating" their homeland.
Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian governments felt quite at home under Nazi
occupation.
PROBE ORDERED INTO PRINTING OF NEO-NAZI
PAPERS IN ESTONIA.
"President Lennart Meri has ordered
Interior Minister Olari Taalan to launch an investigation into the printing
in Estonia of neo-Nazi newspapers, ETA reported on 14 June. According to a
Swedish television report the previous day, Printall has repeatedly printed
various neo-Nazi publications ordered from Sweden. The printing house, which
is 100 percent privatized, has acknowledged that some issues of two
extremist newspapers were published in early 1997, but it pointed out that
since none of its staff speaks Swedish, the company was unaware of the
newspapers' contents. Meri has requested that the investigators identify who
in Sweden financed the printing of the
newspapers."
(source: Institute of Baltic Studies,
06-15-99)
So, what happened next? What happened next was
the only thing that could have happened when such an investigation was
launched by pro-fascist government: nothing happened. In 1993 the "Protocols of the Elders of
Zion", an infamous antisemitic tome, was freely published in Estonia. It was later banned,
but the lazy investigation, launched by the government, predictably,
produced no results. The investigation was launched and quietly faded away,
along with any foreign interest for the incident. And yet another failed
investigation, this time in Lithuania in 1997:
KUBILIUS DEPLORES THE CURRY FAVOURING WITH
LITHUANIAN NEO-NAZIS
"Seimas First Deputy Chairman Andrius
Kubilius is concerned about the activities of the newly-founded Lithuanian
National Socialist Unity movement headed by Mindaugas Murza, the daily
Lietuvos Rytas reports. Kubilius has approached the State Security
Department Director Jurgis Jurgelis and Prosecutor General Kazys Pednycia
with a request to determine whether Murza's and his colleagues' actions have
a criminal aspect. The Seimas official illustrates his allegations with the
excerpts from the neo-Nazi mouthpiece Nacijos Balsas (the Nation's Voice),
where Russians, Poles, and Jews are described as "especially dangerous
minorities." In his written appeal, Kubilius also denounces an opinion
voiced by the security chief that "such people as Murza are not
criminals alike racketeers, burglars, or thieves. "These people belong
to a different trend and we have to find a way to communicate with them on
the normal basis," Jurgelis said earlier. According to Kubilius, such
indulgence could prompt yet more impertinent neo-Nazi
behaviour."
(source: ELTA Lithuanian News Agency,
08-26-97)
Not only the governments of Latvia, Lithuania and
Estonia have no interest in exposing and prosecuting thousands of unknown
neo-nazi criminals, they actually apply maximum effort to hinder prosecution
of those Nazi criminals that are quite well known:
LITHUANIA DENIES DELAYING PROSECUTION OF
SUSPECTED WAR CRIMINAL.
"The government on 22 August released a
statement denying that it has procrastinated over the prosecution of
suspected Nazi collaborator Aleksandras Lileikis, BNS reported. The
statement came in response to recent accusations by the Wiesenthal Center,
an Israeli-based Nazi-hunting organization. It stressed that the only
obstacle to the 89-year-old Lileikis's trial are legal provisions that
prohibit a defendant from undergoing interrogation if such a process would
endanger his or her life. It added that the government is drafting
amendments that would allow prosecution of suspected war criminals
regardless of their state of health. The government also rejected the
Wiesenthal Center's accusations that Vilnius is staging a September meeting
to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the death of the Jewish sage Gaon
Elijah of Vilnius in order to "compensate" for lack of progress in
the Lileikis case."
(source: Institute for Baltic Studies,
08-25-97)
There were hundreds of complaints, petitions,
proposals directed to the governments of the three Baltic states, calling
for decisive actions against neo-nazis operating within the political
structures of these countries, but all complaints, like the one below, fell
on deaf ears:
LITHUANIAN OFFICIAL EXPRESSES CONCERN OVER
NEO-NAZIS.
"First Deputy Speaker Andrius Kubilius
has sent a letter to the national security department and the
Prosecutor-General's Office asking them to determine whether the activities
of a local neo-Nazi organization can be considered criminal, ITAR-TASS
reported on 25 August. Kubilius said the Union for National and Social Unity
of Lithuania (UNCUL) has published articles in its own publication that
"encourage ethnic strife." He argued that those articles provide
evidence that the UNCUL engages in "anti-constitutional activities
aimed at igniting hatred toward non-indigenous people living in
Lithuania." The UNCUL has some 400 members, most of whom are between 20
and 30 years old."
(source: Institute for Baltic Studies,
08-25-97)
The few quotes above are just a tip of the
iceberg: problems of neo-nazism in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are
deep-rooted and fed by indifferent and power-hungry foreigners, by internal
popular discontent with low standards of living, by pro-fascist forces
within the governments of the Baltic trio. We, too, can remain indifferent
and wait until the problem of neo-nazism comes to us, to our countries,
towns, homes. Or we can make our opinion heard by those, who have the power
to change things. As one American writer once put it:
"The opposite of love is not
hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's
indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And
the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference." You can protest
Estonia's pro-fascist policies by contacting the country's
government:
Don't forget to mention that you are coming from
Venik's Aviation Page and you can also drag-and-drop the "Estonian
Neo-Nazism" graphics from this page into your e-mail message. Don't
close your eyes on this: public indifference is exactly how the Third Reich
came about. The Baltics is a particularly volatile area in the world, with
both Russians and Americans competing for influence in the post-Soviet power
vacuum. If we allow Baltic neo-nazis to gain western support, there is no
telling how far things will go. Eventually, we or our children may end
paying for our indifference with blood.
Venik
July 5,
1999
"The ashes of an Estonian officer who
commanded a unit of the Nazi Waffen-SS in the Second World War have been
reburied in a ceremony in the Estonian capital, Tallinn.
