The Monument

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: egor () kobylkin com
Date: May 1, 2007 7:48:49 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: RE: [IP] Digest 1.1346 for ip

Hello there,

not to start a flame but just to make sure the quotation of CNN does  
not stand alone as one-sided propaganda. I'm not sure if the  
quotation really added much value to the post, but anyways. So here  
is my bit of propaganda (if irony fits here at all), hope this will  
help to build an informed opinion.

The Monument is not to the Red Army as a organisation but to the  
Soldiers of that Army, which were killed in Estonia liberating this  
country from Faschists. There were more than dosen of millions them  
died in that war. Have my grandfather and grandmother, who fought as  
well, had less luck, I would not be writing these lines now. The same  
holds to a few tens of millions of Russian Federation citisens.

Also not to be forgotten, that Soviet Army and US Army and UK were  
fighting on the same side in that war, and for a good cause.

So from a side of antifaschist coalition survivors descendant the  
mere "disputability" of that memorial does not put the city  
authorities in a pleasant light. What is there to dispute about dead  
solgiers, leave them rest in peace! Go build your political capital  
on creative work, not digging up graves. No wonder both sides use the  
incident in a disgusting propaganda war.

Hope this helps,
Egor Kobylkin
P.S. I live in Germany since 6 years now, so don't take me for a  
ultra-patriot, I could not care less about the political notion of a  
"country".

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From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: Large-Scale Website Attacks Due to Unrest in Estonia
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 07:49:41 -0400



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From: Paul_Ferguson () trendmicro com
Date: April 28, 2007 9:20:14 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Large-Scale Website Attacks Due to Unrest in Estonia


Dave: For IP...

Mikko Hyppönen writes on the F-Secure "News from the Lab" Blog:

[snip]

Quoting CNN:

"Police arrested 600 people and 96 were injured in a second night of
clashes in Estonia's capital over the removal of a disputed World War
Two Red Army monument ... Russia has reacted furiously to the moving
of the monument ... Estonia has said the monument had become a public
order menace as a focus for Estonian and Russian nationalists."


We're now seeing large attacks against websites run by Estonian
goverment. Some of the sites are unreachable. Others are up, but do
not allow any traffic from foreign IP addresses.

Here's the status as we saw it on Saturday at 15:00 GMT.

[snip]

More:
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/#00001181

- ferg

--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
Network Architect, Office of the CTO
Trend Micro, Inc., San Jose, CA
paul_ferguson () trendmicro com


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