Laar’s sycophantic gushing over the murderous war criminal Bush makes it rather difficult for him to even think about making moral judgements. Laar and his sort are nothing but rapacious oligarchs who have unleashed a degree of devestation upon Russia and its neighbors that would have made the Nazis jealous. The economic catastrophe following the restoration of capitalism in the former soviet republics has exceeded that of the immediate post-WWII period. Nearly twenty years after the restoration of capitalism and the economic output of Russia and neighboring countries is still below the 1991 level. It’s hypocritical for Laar and other bourgeois nationalists in Estonia to posture themselves as anti-Nazis in an attempt to maintain a hint of moral consistency when slandering Russia. The fact is that that Laar and his ilk are the same ones who quite willingly betrayed their country during the Second World War and became accomplices to the most heinous crimes. For Laar to link Communists and Nazis while his nation honors Nazi collaborationists could at best be interpreted as some kind attempt at ironic comedy.

The Estonians should have thrown that Russian statue into the ocean.