Thank you Olev Rood. You make a good point.
Unfortunately, it's useless for negotiating with an adversary schooled by (irrational) marxist dialectical thinking who, today, thinks that Russia has a destiny that shouldn't be impeded by a small and inconsequential nation that stands in its way to the sea.
Imagine the response, if you took your information and laid it on Putin's desk with a request -- "Put yourself in our shoes." -- Now there's a scene for a Fellini film.
There's not much good to be expected from Russia until ordinary Russian's start seeing themselves as victims of communism and a process of de-Sovietization in attitudes begins. That will take time.