Historical Mirror-World or Victory Day in the Baltic States
... fierce battles between the Red Army and the armed forces of the Third Reich, including the Estonian SS-Legion. The core Europe and international organizations choose to ignore this tradition in modern Estonia, while Russia is its chief critic. Just as in Latvia, Estonian SS veterans, however, de facto enjoy the patronage of the local government. In 2013, for example, in response to the traditional criticism by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, its Estonian counterparts argued that in Sinimäe all those killed and injured during World War II were remembered and that remembering the victims was humane . wikipedia.org Antakalnis Military Cemetery, Mausoleum of the Red Army soldiers, Vilnius, Lithuania In Lithuania there is no alternative to Victory Day on May 9. This could well ...