22.08.2025, Tallin.
During the celebration of the Estonian Restoration of Independence day, children were invited to shoot at images of Russian soldiers in a shooting gallery. On August 21, Rossa Primavera News Agency’s Baltic States Desk explains what are the consequences of such “entertainment”, which is obviously not suitable for children, for Estonia.
On August 20, Estonia celebrated its Estonian Restoration of Independence day. Thirty-four years ago, the republic was among the first to break away from the Soviet Union and become an independent state. In Estonia, this day is marked with grandeur and public festivities in the center of Tallinn.
This time, children were encouraged to practice shooting at “Russian orcs.” The targets in the shooting gallery, set up near the Tallinn TV Tower, were depictions of monsters dressed as Russian soldiers, with tricolor patches and the letter Z on their chests. The Nazi slogan “Kill the Russian” has found a very real embodiment in Estonia.
This immediately recalls the numerous videos of Ukrainian children running around with knives and shouting, “I will massacre Muscovites.” Estonia is now following in giant strides the same path made by Ukrainian neo-Nazis.
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova commented on the news as follows: “Estonia should have learned the lessons of the Nazi plague, from which it might have perished if not for the Red Army.”
But, alas, the Estonian authorities have long been deaf to such statements. No comments regarding this “attraction” have been made by Estonian officials.
Estonia holds firmly in line with those countries where hatred of Russia and Russians is cultivated by their governments, and this policy began long before Russophobia became mainstream in Europe.
Until now, Estonian authorities, like those in Lithuania and Latvia, have had to tread a fine line: how to express their hatred of Russians as vividly as possible while still appearing outwardly committed to “common European democratic values.” But the beastly grin of open Nazism is increasingly peeking out from beneath the false smiles of Baltic politicians.
