I know the world is full of stupid...
Apr. 30th, 2007 02:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
calime...but sometimes this fact is brought to mind by things close to home. Like the damn stupid riots in our dear capital, Tallinn, supposedly to protest the removal of a Soviet monument from the city centre to a more suitable location, namely the army cemetary. Human nature shines through "beautifully" though - the supposed 'protesters for the memory of the soviet war heroes' were more interested in looting the alcohol shops and the Hugo Boss boutique. Russian media and government alike spew acid, spitting out threats and accusations...I do wonder, while Russia loudly proclaims it will not have to apologise for crimes commited by USSR as it does not consider itself the inheritor of the USSR and that the USSR is dead and gone, why does Russia feel the need to yowl after a statue that was erected by thatsame dead and gone empire to commemorate the acts Russia does not consider its business to apologise for? But, well, being a power has always meant you never have to say you're sorry...I wonder, what made for example Germany so much more brave to take the responsibility for its history?
There are streets full of broken shop windows in my birth town and there are again concrete barricades on the roads leading to the seat of the Government. Reminds me rather uncomfortably of the times 16 years ago, what with dear tovarištš Žirinovski offering to send the tanks over too and all.
And almost none of the looters and rioters actually care about the fucking bronze statue...most of them are people younger than me who cannot really even tell what they're rioting for, only that they're angry and they need to put the anger into destroying something. Seems the anger in general is becoming more and more an universal human condition...
Just came home and saw the shop across the street was surrounded by police tape. Asked the neighbour; "Bomb threat," she answered. Luckily, here, those are still mostly only threats. And seeing as there is a national ban on selling alcohol in shops for the first half of this week (becasue of the riots), I can just lift my eyebrow and remark that there are no ends to what a frustration can take people who are forced to be sober. The sad thing is, the overall stupidity of all this makes me want to get drunk. I'm glad Tartu is rather quiet, though, at least.
And to crown it all off, it is snowing outside - wet snow and bonechilling wind, in one of those freaky cold bouts the spring can feature. Fitting, somehow. At least that makes in more unpleasant for brainless maniacs to gather outside and rampage around.
Oh, and a very nice spring holidays for you, too.
ETA:A good article on the matter in the Independent.
There are streets full of broken shop windows in my birth town and there are again concrete barricades on the roads leading to the seat of the Government. Reminds me rather uncomfortably of the times 16 years ago, what with dear tovarištš Žirinovski offering to send the tanks over too and all.
And almost none of the looters and rioters actually care about the fucking bronze statue...most of them are people younger than me who cannot really even tell what they're rioting for, only that they're angry and they need to put the anger into destroying something. Seems the anger in general is becoming more and more an universal human condition...
Just came home and saw the shop across the street was surrounded by police tape. Asked the neighbour; "Bomb threat," she answered. Luckily, here, those are still mostly only threats. And seeing as there is a national ban on selling alcohol in shops for the first half of this week (becasue of the riots), I can just lift my eyebrow and remark that there are no ends to what a frustration can take people who are forced to be sober. The sad thing is, the overall stupidity of all this makes me want to get drunk. I'm glad Tartu is rather quiet, though, at least.
And to crown it all off, it is snowing outside - wet snow and bonechilling wind, in one of those freaky cold bouts the spring can feature. Fitting, somehow. At least that makes in more unpleasant for brainless maniacs to gather outside and rampage around.
Oh, and a very nice spring holidays for you, too.
ETA:A good article on the matter in the Independent.
