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Estonia to raise Soviet "occupation" issue with PACE
Sept. 29, 2010, 5:22 p.m. | Russia and former Soviet Union — by Interfax-Ukraine
An Estonian delegation in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is going to raise the issue of the country's 'occupation' by the Soviet Union.
The delegation has pointed to the fact that on September 29, 1960, this interparliamentary organization adopted an 'historical resolution' in support of the sovereignty of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, the Estonian parliament's spokesperson told Interfax on Wednesday.
"This was the first document adopted by the European parliamentary assembly, which clearly points to the fact that Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia were forcibly occupied by the Soviet Union," the parliamentary official said.
"The resolution of September 29, 1960, adopted on the 20th anniversary of the forcible incorporation of the Baltic States says that the annexation did not reflect the wishes of the people, and expresses sympathy for the Baltic peoples in their plight and acknowledges that the majority of governments of the free world still recognizes the de-jure independent existence of our States," the Estonian parliament said.
The resolution also called for the PACE member states' governments to help Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian refugees maintain their culture and language.
Later similar documents were adopted in 1963 and 1987, the Estonian parliament recalled.
The resolution must serve as an example for current European MPs as well, said Andres Herkel, head of the Estonian delegation to the PACE.
"Members of the Estonian delegation believe that this topic deserves broader attention, which is why they want to broaden awareness about it at the PACE autumn session that starts next week," Herkel said.
"This was the first document adopted by the European parliamentary assembly, which clearly points to the fact that Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia were forcibly occupied by the Soviet Union," the parliamentary official said.
"The resolution of September 29, 1960, adopted on the 20th anniversary of the forcible incorporation of the Baltic States says that the annexation did not reflect the wishes of the people, and expresses sympathy for the Baltic peoples in their plight and acknowledges that the majority of governments of the free world still recognizes the de-jure independent existence of our States," the Estonian parliament said.
The resolution also called for the PACE member states' governments to help Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian refugees maintain their culture and language.
Later similar documents were adopted in 1963 and 1987, the Estonian parliament recalled.
The resolution must serve as an example for current European MPs as well, said Andres Herkel, head of the Estonian delegation to the PACE.
"Members of the Estonian delegation believe that this topic deserves broader attention, which is why they want to broaden awareness about it at the PACE autumn session that starts next week," Herkel said.
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Heh heh heh ASStonia nazi collaborators are as dumb as the nazi hohol collaborators holed in yankistan and canukistan with their Holodomor "genocide" myth - but of any PACE joke :D
Heh heh heh... and we worked together to form the ABBN, Radio Free Europe and Independence Movements to finally strangle your Soviet dreamland!!!
Staunch allies we are - who all hate the Katsap vermin!!!
We will put on our gloves and do it all again.... you are very stupid enemies you see. We enjoy revenge upon the mongol katsapi!!!
Russia won, simply because the EU will flood Estonia with many third world immigrants which will lead to the extinction of the racist Estonian Nazis. That is true revenge lol.
He, He, He,
The Baltic states should make a movie about 'heroic' soviet bastards, marching the 'victory parade' on the Red Square - AND DIRECTLY FROM THIS STUPID PARADE THOSE SOVIET SLAVES MARCHED TO THE GULAGS, LIKE PIGS TO THE SLAUGHTER HOUSES....
A Katsap is a katsap, what more can you say. The truth comes out and they start turning blue.....
PS
Over 90% of the UKRAINIANS in UKRAINE voted for a free and sovereign UKRAINE - {SEPERATE from Russia}. If any of the foreigners that had previously occupied and enslaved UKRAINE want to remain in UKRAINE, then they have the option of returning back to their own country or learning the language of the country that they had previously occupied and enslaved {YES - this includes Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, etc!}. kremlinoids do not appreciate the fact that Kyiv did not build GULAGS to put in all of the foreigners that had previously occupied and enslaved UKRAINE - JUST like the savage uncivilized pagan barbarians from the kremlin sent 10,000,000's (10's millions) of UKRAINIANS to the gulags.
All early drafts of the U.N. genocide convention included social and political groups in its definition. But one hand that wasn’t in the room guided the pen. The Soviet delegation vetoed any definition of genocide that might include the actions of its leader, Joseph Stalin. The Allies, exhausted by war, were loyal to their Soviet allies – to the detriment of subsequent generations.
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/september/naimark-stalin-genocide-092310.html
Should the people of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, etc!, allow a foreign language to dominate their country - by the foreigners that had previously occupied and enslaved them?
Read more: http://www.kyivpost.com/news/opinion/op_ed/detail/84088/#ixzz10wvK0oiJ
Ukrainians should get the hell out of canada. They are not natives and are occupying someone else country.
And you should be dispatched to the bosom of Abraham.
poor Nazis you culture will not be preserved. You know why? because Eu will put million of immigrants into Baltic Nazi enclaves and they will breed with Estonians and they will go extinct. Do not believe me ? just go to England France Sweden etc and see what is your future.
kremlinoids can not disprove my factual statements, so some insane evil pervert decided to use my name (LES). They are ashamed to use their own name because their comments are nonsensical, and/or they were never baptized. As usual, the kremlinoids use intentional disinformation, just like the kremlin intentionally murdered 10,000,000's of Ukrainians.
It was only a year since deceitful Bolshevik Russia had turned on its reluctant Baltic allies, cowardly breaking trust and abusing the treaty, which allowed the Reds the use of a few designated military bases in the Baltic States. It was from these bases that the coups d’etat were successfully launched against the legitimate democratic governments of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Signing of the criminal Molotov-Ribentrop pact, 1939, Moscow - Red and Brown fascists form an unholy alliance ... .
In practice, the kremlin started with Estonia, the smallest state with a population of 1,130,000. On September 24th, the Soviets demanded the right to establish naval, military and air bases on Estonian territory. Foreign Minister Karl Selter was informed that Estonian neutrality constituted a danger to the Soviet Union, as the authorities had permitted a Polish submarine to escape from an Estonian port and sink a Soviet steamer near Leningrad (this was a fabrication). Estonia was thus forced to sign a “Treaty of Mutual Assistance”. Either that or face invasion by the Red Army, estimated at that time to be 3,000,000 strong. The Soviet government stationed 25,000 Red Army troops in Estonia at this time.
A high ranking N K V D officer gave his signature to:
ORDER NO. 001223
STRICTLY SECRET
Regarding the procedure for carrying out the deportation of anti-Soviet Elements from Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia.
This document unexpectedly became accessible to historians when it fell into the hands of the Germans when they invaded the Soviet Union in 1941.
It stated that they were to break into designated houses, assembling families in single rooms. Locked doors were to be smashed in and protesting neighbors dispersed. Transported in carts or trucks to the nearest railway station, the prisoners' departure was to be rigorously guarded by NKVD troops. At the station the head of each family was to be skillfully separated from his wife and children, and loaded into a separate truck.
The kremlin was now in a position to implement 0 R D E R N 0. 001223. During the first year of Soviet occupation of Estonia more than 60,000 persons were killed or deported (on the night of June 13-14, 1941 more than 10,000 people were removed in a mass deportation). During 1941-1944 the Nazis occupied Estonia.
those low-castes should not forget
that
40% are not fascist
if i were a low-caste i'd be less vocal and capricious.
hasta la vista ninos...
Stand up to the Evil Russian bear!
Slava=Glory!
Heh heh heh, ASStonia nazi arselickesrs and the hohol diaspora nazi arselickers are the same sore losers and butt of any joke in Europe. No wonder the hohol diaspora losers are so angry on the Europe assembly for giving a good laugh on the so called "Holodomor genocide" myth.
Too much huff and puff and at the end all we see is nazi arselicking beggars whine and moan :D