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When Estonia’s president Ilves chastised “empire savers, pillagers and terrorists” in his Victory Day Defence League Parade speech he meant Russians.
So, in accordance to what I wrote in a posting below such rhetorics
would spur corrupt politicians and businessmen, people in Western countries on
Russia’s payroll, to come out in defence of their oil rich “Motherland”. One
would rightfully expect they would not miss a chance to take a swing at president
Ilves. What was not quite expected and therefore came as a surprise, that it
was Finland’s foreign affairs minister Erkki Tuomioja, perhaps more properly named
Эрик Туомиёвич. A cabinet minister from a neighbouring European country who on behalf of our other neighbour, Russia, interfered with Estonia's president's second most important public address. And this is sad, because so far the man wasn’t on the list of well-known
Russian stooges like Germany’s Gerhard Schröder.
Of course, comparing Finland's cabinet member to a known FSB/GRU informant is no small deal. But there's simply no other explanation one can think about, surprising as it is. At least I cannot think of no legitimate
reason requiring Finland’s foreign minister to step in by throwing himself in front of Russia (against
Estonia!). It should normally be a paying job.
Despite so far flying under the Russia watchers’ radar comrade Туомиёвич
is no small man. He is Foreign Affairs Commissary of something that in those circumstances can only be called Finnish People’s Republic
and therefore member of bunch of influential EU bodies where foreign policy is
formed. So if on the basis of president Ilves’ speech he produced pro-Russian (or anti-Estonian) foreign policy comment, surely it was at least somehow sophisticated? Sadly, no. According to EER our Finnish comrade’s message was surprisingly
simple. He just does not like Ilves, because – wait for it – America!
“Ilves's worldview was formed in Munich
and the United States, while others have lived and survived here,” the minister
said, alluding to Ilves spending his childhood in the US and later working for
Radio Free Europe.
Finnish language Wikipedia tells
us that comrade Туомиёвич’s father was prime minister. His mother was country’s
Member of Parliament (although she was briefly arrested on suspicion of spying
for Russia USSR before she became MP and
Editor-in-Chief of Government Broadcasting Corporation). It all makes sense if
one remembers that it is usually incredibly rich and influential people in the
West who today play for Vladimir Vladimirovich’s team. Their post-communist hypocrisy,
on the other hand, can be deafening: in the quote above prime-minister’s son,
raised in luxury, blames war-refugee Ilves whose parents fled GULAG with nothing and who had to toil for themselves, for “not living and surviving with the people”! What would comrade Туомиёвич most frequently survive, caviar overdose?
How Туомиёвич’s criticism compares to what Kremlin is saying? Expectedly,
it happens to be exactly, almost word-to-word the same:
“Ilves is former USA citizen born
in Sweden, but he was raised and worked in the US in anti-Soviet propagandist
radio station “Free Europe” (Estonian-language edition).”
Unfortunately, comrade Туомиёвич,
despite being a whole foreign affairs commissary which even in people's republics sometimes comes with some level
of finesse, appears to be no different than even our favourite Kremlin mouthpiece
in an average quote.
The question here, rhetorically, with such foreign affair’s minister does Finland need to be an independent Republic or Oblast would suffice?
The question here, rhetorically, with such foreign affair’s minister does Finland need to be an independent Republic or Oblast would suffice?
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