Toomes is a cultural nationalist who has done much volunteer work in Toronto's Estonian community. As much as he cares for the welfare of Estonia and Estonians, he can't move there because his first loyalty is to his wife, children and grandchildren in Toronto -- as it should be.
During the half-century that we have been acquainted, I've never heard even a hint from him that might suggest nostalgia for a by-gone era of authoritarianism. Most certainly, he hasn't alienated any young people from our community; quite the opposite.
If you were personally acquainted with this modest gentleman, you would have never attacked him.

We've got a few posturing snobs in prominent places that make the atmosphere a little unpleasant around here. I for one would like to see you sink your fangs into their backsides. But going after the mild mannered Tarvo, you made a stupid mistake.

it is of course maxim ... he can't be anything more than who he is

For some reason, I didn't recognize Maxim. By now, I should; every week he drops off his stool sample expecting us to diagnose his his ailments.

Tarvo Toomes is one of the nicest, most intelligent, hard working and modest gentlemen of his generation. We are very lucky to have him as an upstanding member of our community.
Maxim should keep his trap shut!!
Tarvo speaks the truth here and we should all be concerned.
We should be concerned that each generation here speaks (on the whole) less and/or less correct Estonian than the previous. We should be concerned that the young people in Estonia are being beguiled by the prospect of life in the west and are embracing western values and language over our own. We need to be concerned about our dwindling population. The way it's going, we will be on the list of endangered languages. We're perilously close as it is.
Should we care? I for one feel that it's my duty to my ancestors.
The Toomes family shows the same respect and duty. All of them, down to the newest grandchild, are true blue Estonians!

I even get free publicity when I write ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! Thanks very much!!

summarizes your contribution to this site ... you have a very sad and lonely if you dedicate 24 hours each day to tracking Eesti Elu comments

Are you saying P as in Peter, our holocaust denying, Hitler admiring kook?

Something veeerrrryyy interesting.The answer lies in EE archives. One should perform the following archive searches and form their own opinion. First search for articles that contain the word fatherland. Second search for aticles that contain the word Diaspora. Look at the common denominator. Further look at the spelling. Look at the articles and look who spells it always Diaspora as in the above comment and
who spells it diasporaa. One can only draw a very interesting conclusion that the commentator has exposed himself unknowingly. IMHO since this person has written articles for EE Online, the editor(s) should discuss this persons derogatory comments regarding Mr. Toomes and other Canadian Estonians in general. I believe it woud be very inappropriate to have any more articles from him.

I must say that this caught me by surprise. Though I wonder what difference it will make. Toronto people have always known Maxim's identity but he doesn't seem to have any sense of shame that might curb his excesses.

You make a pretty good effort at presenting us a mean and nasty people, and then you come out expressing youself with vicious hate language that even makes my comments look like the epitome of humble pie. And it just so happens that Toomes hasn't come out of this one looking as squeaky clean as he deserves, due to the mud-slinging by people who should know better than to be discourteous towards their hard-working community leaders!