Russia died with her Czar on July, 17 1918. So Russia could not assembly anything in November 1918.

@marzipan......I am aware that any human suffering and death is in itself tragedy for all humanity.  I did not at any point denied Russians part of responsibility for  Bolshevik evil deeds. I was just trying to point out that there is nobody who is more or less guilty for evil period that resulted in highest human loss in history of world. You will have hard time to explain to  30 + millions of Russians who died from Bolshevik hands that it was mostly Russian fault (also victims of horror). Putin is doing a lot trying to expose Soviets evil step by step. He, out of his pocket, rebuild grave tombs of leading Russian White Army General and Czarist ideologue. I would, also, like to see that process going faster but Russia at this point can not afford civil war with new enemy at the gate! I was just trying to let you understand other side of the story and do not expect that you will change your opinion. For example Estonia being part of  Soviet Union would be than also responsible for Prague spring from Czech standpoint. (if we follow your German example).  But each of us brought to the table valid points. Lana, Duncan, you and it was refreshing to learn so much. Again original Kihnu comment was about "Balts" and as you pointed out to Lithuanian Imperialism there is other side of the story.  I admit that Estonian origin and history was not my best area, but I learned something from Estonians like you and Lana. Therefore I will left you with few words. Devil is deceiver and every human being is his potential victim. Lets take that as starting point and it will be much easier to understand and forgive to each other!!!

Several more points I forgot to mention in response to "I".

"I" says -- correctly -- that many nations suffered under Soviet rule, but that the brunt of this was borne by Russians. But Russians were not just the main victims of Soviet rule; Russians were also the main victimisers of others in the name of Soviet rule. "I", along with most Russians and Russia apologists, seem to think that the first reality somehow cancels out the second. It does not.

"I" also pointed out that some Estonians fought on the Soviet side in the Estonian War of Independence. Every educated Estonian knows that.  In November 1918  Russia assembled some Estonian Bolsheviks who had escaped there, and included them as a small minority in the fairly massive Red Army detachments arranged along Estonia's border. They were intended not so much to serve a military purpose as to serve, in true Soviet style, as an element of disinformation, enabling Russia to falsely portraying the coming conflict as an Estonian civil war. This is the lie which Soviet Russia always promulgated, never being able to bring itself to name that war what it actually was, War of Independence, but rather, as just an internal civil war. And it is the same lie which post-Soviet Russia still proclaims to this day. Estonian Bolsheviks were very small in number and played a miniscule part in the fighting that followed.

Fin ally, "I" claims that I "demand exclusive victim role for  Baltic nations in the Soviet era." Really? Where have I ever demanded that? Please provide a quote or two. I have made no comment at all about the innocence or otherwise of any Baltic country. I have made plenty of comments about the guilt, past and present, of Russia in regard to Baltic countries.

Russia's past guilt has to do with crimes that were committed overwhelmingly by Russians in the service of the Soviet State. The principle that some Soviet leaders were not Russian and that this mitigates the guilt of Russians who were simply carrying out their orders didn't wash at Nuremberg, and it doesn't wash here, either. And Russia's present guilt has to do with the fact that it continues to embrace and enthusiastically project Soviet Russia's anti-Baltic lies, and has failed to bring even one Soviet-era state criminal to answer for their crimes in a court of law. Those crimes, by the way, were not restricted to the 1940s. They continued all the way to 1991.