The controversy over the Bronze soldier of Tallinn has heated up considerably with violence, rioting and an alarming ratcheting up of the rhetoric from the Russians.
It rather reminds me of the way the Argentine Junta used the Malvinas (i.e. Falkland Islands) as a distraction, and as rallying point for their regime. This time it is the horde of President Vladimer Putin's yes men, who are behind the escalating tensions in the Baltic. Among them is this rather strange youth movement whose main motivating factors seem to be Russian Nationalism, Anti-Fascism, Anti-Americanism and an admiration for Putin that verges on the personality cult.
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