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Date: 2023-06-11 02:04 pm (UTC)I appreciate you updating the post, I just see a lot of really skeevy "but maybe Ukraine did it" sort of rhetoric around and it's enraging bc these people would never say it about a country they consider Western or acceptable. But since it's an Eastern European country, it's "okay" to say it.
And yeah, Russian propaganda is its own special breed, even the anti-Putin stuff. For example, Navalny is touted as this hope for democratic Russia and like...the man is as racist and colonialist as Putin is. He thinks Crimea is Russia. Make it make sense that the West simps for him and his team and whatever that stupid documentary was.
I'll drop a link here: https://ekspress.delfi.ee/artikkel/120083694/human-life-has-no-value-there-baltic-counterintelligence-officers-speak-candidly-about-russian-cruelty
One of the Estonian papers interviewed the leaders of Baltic intelligence agencies about what it's like to have Russia as an enemy. I am not going to say that as an Estonian anything surprised me in there but I feel it's an important article and I am really glad they translated it.
Yeah, the Slava Ukraini NGO thing was super embarrassing and awful, basically the woman spearheading it turned out to have been scamming in the past (the person scammed was willing to be silent if she returned the money), and she got awards and was even voted into Parliament before it all came crashing down. I thought it was a Russian info-op at first since the whistleblower also revealed the lady possibly had been having a relationship with the Ukrainian man who was scamming on the Ukrainian side. But then more info came out and someone else who had also been involved with the NGO on the Estonian said says he knows the whistleblower and believes him, and they're still investigating. Big mess.
Yeah, the funds thing is definitely complicated and it's not like Estonia hasn't been pushing for every anti-Russian measure here is. It's the worst sort of vindication to be like "we were right all along". But at least the last year's events have made it clear I have no reason to be ashamed to be Eastern European. Before all this, me and loads of people in Estonia used to go "well we're sort of Nordicish since we're kind of related to Finland" and so on and so forth. But no more. :D
Yep, warnings are good. There's stuff I've encountered without warning and...oof.