The World has been schocked by recent events in Tibet, still occupied by communist China. Hundreds of people are killed, knowbody knows how much arrested and detained. This is communism as usual. For Estonian people it is more as familiar. It begins with massive terror and genocide, destruction of memory and culture, pressure on religion and language. The next phase will be massive colonization, destruction of living space of nation. This is now going on in Tibet. it is natural that the Tibetians protest against such policy – that is their only way to survive.
Yesterday “Oscar” nominees were announced. Among foreign movies one of the most interesting is A.Wajda’s “Katõn” which describes the massacre of Polish officers in 1940-1941 in Katõn by NKVD. Current Russia is not recognizing the crimes committed by the Stalin regime and attacking furiously the Wajda’s movie. At the same time the evidence of Soviet crimes was presented soon by President Jeltsin. Unfortunately the Katõn massacre is not so much known in Western countries. Nazi-Soviet conspiracy in 1939, the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, start of II World War as a result of this and fate of Poland and Baltic countries has not been much discussed subject. Stalin joined in 1941 the Allied camp and his cooperation with Hitler during the first period of war was pardoned. At the same time it must remembered, that without Stalin and Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, II World War has probably never been started and Poland invaded from one side by Nazi-Germany and from other side by Soviet Union. This was reason why Wajda presented his movie in POland namely on 17. September 2007, remembering the day, when Soviet forces invaded Poland in 1939. Wajda’s movie is powerful story of forgotten crimes, memory and love. This is not autobiography, but tells story of these thousands of mothers, wives and children, who were not allowed to know truth what happened to their sons, husbands and fathers. Wajda’s movie deserves Oscar, let’s hope it would get it!