Burn, Baltics, Burn!

Leidsin ühe väga kauni artikli:
www.exile.ru/2007-May-18/burn_baltics_burn.html

for years now I've been expecting the Russian-speaking minorities in Latvia and Estonia to burn shit down.

I think the Baltic people are fucking Neanderthals for the way they turned on their Russian minority, once it was clear that the Russians were defenseless and coulde be smacked around with impunity. Given the choice between walking upright like the Westerners they claim to be, or behaving like knuckle-dragging monkeys, the Estonians and Latvians chose old-style European village fascism. And for that, I believe they should be booted out of NATO and the keys to their borders handed back to Russia to do with as they please.

A tiny group of about 30 Latvian nerds and paranoid-schizophrenics, protected by a phalanx of riot cops, marched skittishly to the edge of the monument square. The Russians spotted them and made their way in groups to the edge of the square, at first out of sheer curiousity. Suddenly the atmosphere turned from festive anticipation to wounded fury, the kind of anger that comes from the guts. The cops tried to protect the small, frightened group of Latvian nerds as the Russian crowd pushed, whistled, and yelled, "Fashisti! Fashisti!"

The Latvian, including a few vid-gamer types, pale skinny twerps, and weird old women, received official government permission to hold their march. They waited until the police secured a cordon for them, then moved nervously into the large concrete square, towads the Soviet memorials. The Latvians got as far as they could push through, about half way to the base of the monument, before the laws of density brought the crowds to a completely standstill. It was like rugby with two different strategies: numbers for the Russians, weapons and shields for the cops/nationalists.

The front-line Russians were big guys, who looked like jocks and cops, but were remarkably orderly and reasonable. Both sides knew how dangerous the situation was; and unlike in Tallin, where the cops behaved like flat-out Pinochet fascists, worse even than the OMON in Moscow.
The Russians' anger was real; there were young and old, men and women, athlete types and intellectuals.

Y las otras palabras bonitas. Escribir algo así. No sé, no me salen las palabras para comentar algo tan feo.