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This article will survey how much the Baltic states and Finland have been radicalized, that they are fascists and follow the principles of Hitler’s National Socialism. The sinister development has serious implications for the entire European Union in its relations with Russia.

Ironically, the Baltic states and Finland proclaim to be democracies, not realizing that they conform to the principles of National Socialism as was preached by the German political party NSDAP (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei) led by Adolf Hitler in the 1930s and 1940s.

Recently, there was yet another incident, one of many, this time in Estonia, where in the town of Johvi, the monument of two SS veterans from the Second World War was taken out of the cellars of the museum, cleaned up, and put on display again.

Georg Sooden was a volunteer in the SS 20th Estonian Division (the Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS). About 70,000 mostly volunteers fought in this battalion, mainly against the Soviet Red Army, notably in the battle of Krivasoo. Georg Sooden was killed in this battle as was his comrade Raul Jüriado also mentioned on the monument. A member of the Johvi council inaugurated the commemoration.

In the Western news media, there is hardly any talk about these kinds of incidents. Nor is there any criticism of the Baltic states’ routine apologetic argument that they were “forced” to fight for the Nazis.

However, the Germans are known for their accuracy in documenting everything. The archives attest that the SS battalions in the Baltic States (as in the Netherlands, Belgium, and France) consisted of volunteers.

In Estonia, around 70,000 men voluntarily joined the SS.

In Latvia, the 1st Latvia 15th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS together with the 2nd Latvia 19th Waffen Grenadier Division consisted of 87,500 men.

Lithuania did not officially have a Waffen SS battalion but called itself the Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force. But most of them collaborated as policemen and carried out raids on Jews, Communists and dissidents. Almost all Jews of Lithuania were killed in the Second World War by Lithuanians, who carried out the executions. Lithuania is the southernmost of the Baltic states. During the Holocaust, about 90 percent of all Lithuanian Jews were murdered, one of the highest victim rates in Eastern Europe. The Netherlands had the highest victim rate of Western Europe.

In 2023, a BBC investigation on Lithuania (Dailymotion) found that almost all Lithuanians were involved in the Holocaust, and to this day it is not allowed to be talked about in public. Also, all the SS battalions mentioned were perpetrators in the siege of Leningrad (St Petersburg) and Operation Barbarossa in Russia, killing and murdering Russians, Jews, Communists and other Slavs.

Sinisterly, though, history is being rewritten to erase this horrific European complicity in the Nazi genocide. Latvia (and the other states as well) is trying to do this historical whitewash with the help of all kinds of European Union funds. Meanwhile, Latvia and the other Baltic states continue spewing anti-Russian hatred and concealing the horrendous genocidal crimes committed by their citizens during the Second World War in collaboration with the Nazi Third Reich.

The revisionism of historical crimes by the Baltic states took on urgency after the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991 and these gained nominal independence, later joining the European Union and NATO.

Finland is a different story. The Finns didn’t have such a big SS battalion during WWII, but since WWII the national politics have increasingly acquired a fascist attitude. Finnish politicians and citizens have adopted a hostile view toward Russia.

Recently, Finnish President Alexander Stubb spoke on CNN and stated: “I felt that there was a potential existential threat coming from Russia.” He provocatively said the “road to peace goes through the battlefield” and bragged that Finland has the highest population percentage in Europe who are willing to die for their fatherland.

Stubb also claims that Finland tried to cooperate with Russia after the Cold War (1991) but it didn’t work because Russia is not a “normal” state that respects international law.

In June 2023, Finland’s Minister for Economic Affairs apologized for appearing at a rally organized by NeoNazi groups; apologized too for making a joke about the number 88 which can mean “Heil Hitler” to right-wing extremists, and said that he condemns the Holocaust.

The NeoNazi party in Finland is called the Nordic Resistance Movement, which has many followers also in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Iceland.

Furthermore, remarkably enough, Wikipedia states that their allies are the Ukrainian Azov battalion, which was associated with NeoNazism until 2022. The Western media and politicians airbrushed away Azov’s Nazi affiliation, and the group was given a new image falsely claiming the group had “rejected their Nazi ideology”.

A major player in the European Union is the biggest Russophobe Kaja Kallas, who recently was the prime minister of Estonia. She is due to become the EU’s foreign minister. It is alarming to think that a politician from Estonia, the country that recently erected a monument to SS Georg Sooden and his comrade, is now responsible for European foreign policy at a dangerous time of geopolitical conflict with Russia.

Kallas is notorious for her Russophobia and grew up with an immense hatred for Russia. Her mother was deported to Siberia, according to her Wikipedia page. She has German roots on her paternal side. Her father was prime minister of Estonia in the 1990s and an EU commissioner. She is not interested in striving for good neighborliness with Russia.

Thus, a toxic cocktail of hatred and revenge now imbues the European Union, amplifying the influence of fascism and belligerence in the Baltic states and Finland.

Also, the era of communism has never been closed in their minds, which is why such great traumas have arisen and this trauma has inflamed the rest of the European countries and infected them with hatred against Russia.

Shamelessly and without scruples, Kaja Kallas writes in the American magazine Foreign Affairs that there can only be peace when Putin is in jail. That is how far the hatred goes, and the so-called democracies in the European Union, such as the Netherlands, France and Germany, who speak of antisemitism at every opportunity, tolerate this woman and the Baltic states and call them democracies without regard to the terrible past and the present.

NeoNazis are once again marching through the streets, not only in the Baltic states and Finland, but through the streets of Kiev, Odessa and Lvov with burning torches spewing their hatred towards Russians, Jews, Arabs, Africans and all other foreigners. Just like in the Second World War, maybe even a degree worse.

The politicians and many civilians of the Baltic states and Finland are glorifying the Azov battalion that has thousands of deaths on their hands, killing the Russian population in Mariupol and other Donbass cities, towns and villages. They are supported by European politicians who now claim that they have been de-Nazified.

The truth is that de-Nazification only began in 2022 when Russia launched the Special Military Operation to save the Russian-speaking population in the Donbass from these fascist Nazi monsters who started a full-blown pogrom against them in 2014, supported by the U.S. and Europe.

The European Union sponsors NeoNazi legions such as the recently emerged Georgian Legion or the so-called Russian Liberation Army, all of which are probably deployed in the attack on the Kursk region. The head of the Russian Liberation Army is Denis Kapustin, promoted by Western media as a tough German NeoNazi who also had a Russian passport (revoked), a Russian-German who is considered influential in the right-wing extremist scene and radicalized in Germany. Years ago, he founded the NeoNazi fashion label “White Rex”, which, according to the German media, helped professionalize the NeoNazi martial arts scene throughout Europe. He was also a role model for the Azov battalion, whose tour was recently canceled in Europe after some media outrage.