Diplomat Salimullin: Excavation of Soviet soldiers’ graves in Estonia is an act of vandalism
Russia’s Chargé d’Affaires in Estonia Lenar Salimullin stated RIA Novostithat the excavation of the graves of Red Army soldiers and their exhumation in Estonia is an act of vandalism aimed at revising the results of World War II.
Salimullin pointed to the desire of Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal to get rid of monuments to the Red Army soldiers who “at the cost of their own lives gave freedom to the current generation of Estonians.”
“The recent trend has been the exhumation of the remains of fighters against the ‘brown plague’ who found their final resting place here. News of such atrocities appears with deplorable regularity,” the agency’s source said.
According to Salimullin, the Estonian authorities also encroached on the Tallinn military cemetery: the ashes of 38 Soviet soldiers buried there “were blasphemously raised from the ground, and the slabs with their names were dismantled.”
“We strongly condemn such antics of gravediggers and consider them to be acts of state vandalism aimed at revising the results of World War II,” the Russian diplomat concluded.
Earlier, the Russian Embassy sent a note to the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding the exhumation of the remains of Red Army soldiers. The diplomatic mission stated that the transfer of the bodies of Soviet soldiers, which began in the village of Tsooru in Võru County, contradicts Tallinn’s obligations under the Geneva Convention.
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