"There’s only one enemy and that’s Russia," said Estonian national Ain Tähiste, summing up his views on the issue in a sentence: "Latvia, Finland, Sweden - and on the Baltic Sea Poland, Germany, Denmark," he continues, "they’re all friends, but not the Russian neighbor.” German Deutsche Welle reproduced his words with him adding that "It’s naïve to think Russia’s far away".
Ain Tähiste guides the German reporter team through the military museum on Hiiumaa. The Estonian island in the west of the country was off-limits to tourists during Soviet rule because its location on the Baltic Sea made it strategically important to Kremlin from Moscow. Since the start of the Russian war on Ukraine, Estonia has removed old Soviet monuments form public spaces and banished some of them to museums. "The Soviet Union occupied Estonia in 1940," Ain Tähiste explained for Deutsche Welle. "Are we still expected to pay our respects to the troops that occupied us? No, it was high time this happened!”
And that's only the begining. Watch the Deutsche Welle and start enjoying that, at least for now, the Russian started to lose the Ukrainian war.
