Nazism: UN condemns while Estonia celebrates
Published: 21 November, 2008, 11:47
Edited: 25 July, 2010, 04:31
A 2008-2009 calendar published in Estonia
The UN General Assembly’s Third Committee has adopted a resolution proposed by Russia on tackling the glorification of Nazism and the desecration of WWII monuments. Meanwhile a 2008-2009 calendar published in Estonia can easily be considered the glorifyin
As George Orwell once noted, ‘who controls the present controls the past’.
It looks like those, who control ‘the present’ in certain counties don’t mind at all to rewrite the past in favor of Nazism.
This is something that hardly goes in line with the United Nations principles. This was stressed once more when the General Assembly's Third Committee (on social and humanitarian issues) voted in favour of the Russian-proposed resolution on “combating racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance.”
Resolution to be adopted by the General Assembly
Since the early 2000s governmental bodies of Russia have called to investigate what they call ‘a glorification of fascism’ in Estonia and discrimination against the Russian-speaking minority in the country, which has negatively affected the relations between the countries.
Addressing the committee members, Russian representative to the UN Grigory Lukyantsev drew attention to the fact that “monuments to Nazis are opened in solemn ceremonies in certain states, and the dates of liberation from fascism are announced as days of mourning there,” and those who opposed consigning to oblivion soldiers who fought against Nazis during WW2 are arrested.
One of the images in the calendar
The resolution was adopted with 122 countries voting in favor, while 54 delegations abstained, including Ukraine, Estonia and Latvia.
The U.S., whose number of causalities in WWII was 40 times less then those of the Soviet Union (0.4 million against 23.1 million) was the only country to vote against the resolution.
Now, having been adopted by the Third Committee, the document is practically guaranteed to be adopted by the UN General Assembly at its next session in December.
‘SS’ logos retouched
Meanwhile a 2008-2009 calendar published in Estonia is bound to spawn another round of Russo-Estonian controversies both on the international level and within the country.
It features a dozen retouched posters that in 1940s calling fellow Estonians to support the 20th (1st Estonian) Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS.
The calendar, which hit the stands in September, features slogans like ‘The pride of the Estonian people – the Estonian legionary’, ‘Every real Estonian has to be in the legion’ etc.
The project’s supervisor Aimur Kruuse believes the calendar just reflects Estonian history.
The original 20th Waffen Division poster
Police commissioner Andres Kahar, quoted by Postimees daily, believes the calendar does not violate Estonian law, despite the fact that it prohibits the usage of both Soviet and Nazi symbols as they were two occupational regimes.
Though the ‘SS’ logos were carefully retouched from the posters, the Nazi uniform is still easily recognizable. Whether a uniform can be considered a symbol will probably have to be decided in court.
Ruben Zarbabyan, RT
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The Americans voted against this resolution?? How could we in light of what happened? I have to look up the resolution now and read it fully for myself, I can't see any reason to want to deny that resolution beyond our last administration (sorry about them, Ivoted against them every time, jr and sr) wanting to be a pain in the worlds collective asses. Maybe they felt that since neal prescott bush's fortune came from aiding the Nazi's via funding and banking, that it would be hypocricitcal, though hypocrisy was normally not an issue for them.
The rise of the Nazi thought system is a effect of Jewish control, just as it was in Germany 1933. Anti-Zionism is on the rise everywhere due to the evil behavior of the Israelis. There are too many duel citizenship Israelis in the American government who are viewed as traitors and spy's by many Americans. Jews are only 2% of the population and there is a disproportional amount controlling everything in the country. This could bring about problems for them!
I think there is an attempt by Russian news media to portray Baltic people as Nazi, in a way to defend the illegal and cruel invasion and occupation of the Baltic countries by the USSR from 1944-1991. Estonians did not ask, nor did not want to be occupied by either the USSR or Germany, but simply wanted to be free and independent, as all nations do. In should be pointed out, that in 1940, when the Soviet Union invaded the Baltic countries, that the USSR was in fact was allied with Nazi Germany, and then the Baltic countries were not called fascist, but Borgiouse Capitalist. The Red Army claimed to liberate the Baltics from borgiouse capitalism. In fact, Stalin's official reason for invading Estonia was because Estonia had let the Polish ship leave its harbor, claiming that Estonia was not being neutral by helping Poland, then Poland being both considered an enemy to the Russian-German allience, an allience defined by the Molitov-Ribbeptrop pact. It is interesting that now even Russia claims to no longer be communist and supposedly embraces capitalist system, while still defending those Red Army soldiers who brought the Baltic countries under communism. Estonians faught its war of Independence from 1918-1920, which it even faught side by side White Russian soldiers against the Red Army. Now that Russia has admitted that communism was the wrong path and now embraces free market democracy, why does it still defend those who for communism. The truth is that Russia has made up many excuses for invading land, but the only real reason it ever invades is to aquire and steal more land for itself as it has for hundreds of years. We have yet to here an apology and admission by the Russian government for the illegal 50 years of Soviet Occupation from 1940-1991. All we hear are soviet apologists who defend the Soviet invasion of the Baltics, and the mass deportations of its people to Siberia. This insults the memory of all the millions who died in the Gulags.