How utterly naive!
To think that any European government would put historical Soviet human rights violations at the top of any agenda, above economics and the realpolitik, is monumentally absurd and a gross excercise in futility.
While you pawns of the real Cold Warriors natter on about injustice and such, the rest of the world will move on without blinking because your solution to rehabilitating our history is to simply lash out with blame and destory/move monuments: how crass and ignorant. If this editorial represents the majority view of Estonians, we should prepare to be ignored for several more decades.

Maxim doesn't own a dictionary and even if he did he'd say it's wrong. I remember how he told us that we have forfeited our right to return to Estonia. He gnawed on that like a dog on a bone because he didn't know what 'forfeit' means. Now we can see that he doesn't know what 'delusional' means. Get ready to be barked at.

If you don't like ridicule, why beg for it?

Confused bluster, strident boasting, and wounding insults invite contemptuous jeers. This rule applies to everyone.
A dull-witted megalomaniac can think that an exception should apply in his case because he genuinely knows it all and he is always right. He can think that he deserves unquestioning agreement. When contradicted, he can be surprised and think that an angry response is justified. He can think anything that he wants; but he can't do it clearly or logically. That's why he called a megalomaniac.

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only a half-wit wouldn't recognize the identity of Maxim and M

Can anyone help him out?

In February 1919, a year after the first Estonian Republic was proclaimed, the inaugural Estonian Military parade was organized at Vabaduse Plats. In order to make sufficient room for the parade the statue of Peter 1 was removed. It should be noted that the proceedings for its removal went remarkably smoothly, and indicate the credit due to the Government of the day. This should be a sufficient enough precedent to organize something similar for Tõnismäe.

You have occasionally slapped our community with painful insults (do you need a more specific reminder?) and never have you shown any hint that you may have overstated something that you should retract, even by a small degree.
Readers have reacted in a predictably human manner and you, anticipating respect, are shocked and indignant. Like a madman, you do the same thing repeatedly, expecting a different reaction.
When you are not insulting us, you are reminding us that you are the only one who understands anything. The incoherent rant with which you open this particular series is typical of your way of "advancing the argument", as you like to phrase it. A logical response to it would involve a lot of work disentangling non sequiturs from implausible tacit assumptions. Why bother? It's not as if you've ever changed your mind when faced with fact or reason.
In short, you are a persistent, embarrassing nuisance and everyone but the infamous Peter would like to wish you good luck in Estonia so that you might stop harassing us.

Maxim, the intellectual (sic.), isn't gonna use any appauling (sic.) language.
Now he's gonna work like hell to steer the topic away from his embarrassing faut pas -- his phony apology.

Maxim. Get a job.

Usually Maxim is irritating. But if you can read what he says late at night, in a don't give a damn mood after a few too many, I guarantee that he can be as funny as Bozo the Clown.

When I saw that 40 comments have been left I thought to myself that there must be another interesting and stimulating discussion going on but much to my disappointment most of what I read were childish insults.
I remember when we had many interesting discussions and even when we did not all agree we still were able to exchange opinions on our community and many of the problems that face us. Now this column has degenerated to such a low level that I no longer bother to participate and wonder if some of the people who write here are drunk or on drugs.

I agree with almost all of the criticism that Maxim and Peter get here. I think most people do because I don't remember anybody saying anything positive about them. They say they want to have an intellectual discussion but what have they ever said that is intellectual. I think Maxim comes here to stir up our emotions. Peter is sneaky. You never know what he is getting at. Its as if he is trying to push our thinking into some direction without us knowing it. So I for one am glad to see them called onto the carpet so they cant get away with anything.

...wish to have "an interesting and stimulating discussion" -- with the rest of us quietly taking notes.
Sorry, boys. If you wish to speak out in public, you'll have to become accustomed disagreement and criticism.