Estonia has recently joined the EU and the NATO, two supposedly democratic institutions, but it practices apartheid on the scale that would put old South Africa to shame. Estonia has disenfranchised one third of its population because of their wrong ethnicity and for years has been doing its best to rehabilitate Nazi war crimes and its perpetrators. The US and the EU and other so-called democracies prefernot to pay any attention to the mischievous antics of their naughty Baltic protégé.

On Tuesday, a monument to Nazi generals and collaborators was destroyed in Moscow. The monument was located in the inner courtyard of the Church of All Saints near Sokol subway station. Unknown vandals smashed the small obelisk with inscription to the Warriors of Russian Service Union, Russian Corps, Cossack Formation, Cossacks of the 15th Cavalry Corps (XV.Kosaken-Kavallerie-Korps) who Fell for the Faith and the Fatherland.

A selective democracy is hardly a democracy at all and a «state» where one third of population is disenfranchised on a whimsical technicality can hardly be considered either democratic or free. As I know both societies intimately well I can say with a degree of confidence that most Russians (or modern Americans, Austrians, French or Germans) cannot comprehend what it is like to be of wrong ethnicity and live under state tyranny in an ethnocracy. A friend of mine was born in Estonia from parents who were also born in Estonian SSR in the 1950s.

Recent events in Tallinn did not yet raise the question on the limits of  European hypocrisy which seems to be boundless. News of police assault against demonstrators reminded of reports from a warzone. It was indeed very much like war zone reportage. Brutal beatings of tens and hundreds, mass detentions in a facility that was so poignantly similar to a concentration camp did not get even slightest symbolical condemnation from the European Union officialdom or from America’s ever vigilant Department of State. In his time Victor Yanukovich got so scared tha the decided against employing force to disperse Orangist demonstrators, gripped with justified fear that the humanistic West would accuse him of all mortal sins. We have a saying that human blood’s color is the same all over. Well, it’s not so in the West.