Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas. File photoHELSINKI, May 11.Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas has stated that she supports the demolition of «Red Army» monuments in the country. by no means desecrating the graves of the fallen, if there are any,» the prime minister said, speaking to MPs on Wednesday.How liberator heroes are again «killed» in EstoniaRecently, cases of desecration of monuments to Soviet soldiers have become more frequent in Estonia and neighboring Latvia and Lithuania. The Russian Foreign Ministry strongly condemned the desecration of such memorials in the Baltics on the eve of May 9. «For several weeks we have been dealing with this issue in order to map such objects and act in a balanced way so as not to disturb the peace of the burial,» the prime minister added. At the same time, Estonia does not officially celebrate Victory Day is May 9, but it is a holiday for many people in the country. Thousands of people bring flowers and lay wreaths at the graves of fallen Soviet soldiers. In Tallinn, people come with flowers to the «Bronze Soldier». The Russian leadership has repeatedly stated that the occupation of the Baltic countries in 1940 by the USSR is out of the question. The Russian Foreign Ministry explained that it considers the accession of the Baltic states to the USSR as consistent with the norms of international law of that time. According to the department, the term «occupation» cannot be used here, since there were no hostilities between the USSR and the Baltic states, and the introduction of troops was carried out on a contractual basis and with the express consent of the authorities existing in these republics. In addition, national authorities acted in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia throughout their stay in the Soviet Union (with the exception of the time of occupation by Germany during the Great Patriotic War).
One of the organizers of the «Immortal Regiment» in Estonia was expelled from the country
