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Zhirinovsky: We want part of Estonia back
Staff and wire reports
Baltic Times, Oct. 30-Nov. 5
Russia’s Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of the Liberal-Democratic Russian Party and asshat an outspoken nationalist, said on Oct. 27 that the Estonian cities of Narva and Tartu belonged to Russia
especially from ’45-’91
and that the border agreement between the two countries should be rewritten.
(Click here to see the region in question).
In a meeting with the electorate held in the culture center of Ivangorod, which is located across the river from Narva, he said, "Narva and Tartu should be taken over from Estonia because these are Russian towns ... Narva is a Russian town, and Tartu is Yuryev, also a Russian town."
That would be news to the people of Tartu, who bill it as "the most Estonian" city in the country.
For Estonians, Russia’s fascist tool far-right firebrand would leave it the country’s other big cities.
We can? Oh, thank you Vlad!
"We should leave [the Estonians] Tallinn and Parnu. That’s all of Estonia — the rest is Russia," Zhirinovsky said, adding that the Vilnius region in Lithuania fell under the same category of historically disputed territory.
Okay; who here wants to tell the Lithuanians they’re gonna need a new capital?
Estonian officials downplayed the rant, writing it off to Russia’s upcoming Saddam-like rubber stamp election campaign but conceding the verbal attacks from its former occupier ruler might not end when the Baltic state joins the EU and NATO next year.
The surprise meter is still pegged at zero.
Posted by: Baltic Blog 2003-11-09
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=21023