Estonia has been an independent country for more than 30 years now. The fact that young teens and teachers in their 50s can't speak Estonian is simply unacceptable. I was in Tallinn three days for tourism and I still managed to learn some basic words. If you have been living there since you were born and know nothing, it's mean you never even bother to try.
Estonian must be the national language in Estonia. Because of Soviet oppression Russian language was foisted on the population along with its Russification.
I guess no single indigeneous language from North America would cover the whole area of todays USA and Canada but I guess that's what he means. The indigineous languages were there before english came. @@AndrD1406
@@ceemor3404 Jesus christ. Estonia has never been ethnically Russian. Estonians aren’t related to Russians at all. Estonians have been around longer than any Moscow. But I guess rubles from your fascist government and Putler are worth more than the truth to you.
@@ceemor3404 That area was always ethnically Estonian, when USSR discovered uranium deposits, and other minerals they forced Estonians out and moved Russians in. Before WW2 Estonia was 91% ethnically Estonian now is 68%.
@@bulthaosen1169 Ok, so Estonia was conquered by sovietland, later became independent EU Member State and that everything for becoming soviet once again? Are you nuts?
@@michastepien8326 how exactly is speaking your mother tongue a bad thing? Europeans are seriously one of the most hateful people on earth. Right behind muslims.
@@andyabuteo6084 I mean, no. 1. Russians like living in Estonia, as Russia is very poor compared to Estonia. 2. We have a functioning military(unlike what Russia will send over the border). 3. NATO
I find it difficult to understand why anyone born in Estonia hasn’t learned the language. In the USA, most of us are descendants of immigrants, but English is what we all speak, not by decree. It is the language of choice, in order to understand each other in our regular daily lives. Children of immigrants play together and communicate in the predominant language, while speaking with their parents in their native languages when at home. We’ve all learned bits and pieces of each other’s vocabulary, usually slang and vulgarities, but we don’t reject new terms and phrases automatically. There are separate communities where there are high percentages of non-English speakers, but those that wish to do commerce always embrace English, especially for their children. It’s great to be multilingual, but if you only know one language, it should be the one your country of residence transacts business, not that of a foreign entity…even if it exists right across the bridge. If I moved to Mexico, I would learn their version of Spanish and would not be putting up monuments to Texans, expecting it to be maintained or even respected. 🤷🏼
@@marksolomonify you whiffed the ball with that load of bs. In (every) Chinatown, for instance, yes the adults tend to self-isolate, but their children do NOT grow up speaking only Chinese, they are bilingual. Second generation Estonians, should at the very LEAST be bilingual in Estonian plus whatever languages their parents spoke. The fact that Russians are pretending to be discriminated against, when *they* have actively imposed their language upon citizens of other countries is completely absurd. Your misinformation about the children of immigrants in the USA, tells me that you know nothing about my country and are, in fact, incredibly ignorant and isolated from reality. Stifle yourself, troll, you know nothing.
@@marksolomonify How do we ‘discriminate’?? Learning the state language is literally for their own good, as that allows them to get out of their Russian-only bubble and get jobs in Estonia.
@@marksolomonify You have made many excellent points. However one line - "If you codify one language in law, this would be criminalizing other languages" would get you thrown out of law school if you ever said it. It is not at all true. I agree that there is no need in the US to make English an official language. Things have worked just fine as they are for quite some time now. Education does most of the work of integrating immigrant children. But in that particular comment, you seem to have jumped off a cliff into the void of irrational thinking.
@@SYN022 because not everyone wants the Russian world. Want to speak Russian? Then go to Russia. Ahh, you don't want to lose all of the benefits of living in a western country where there's freedom and a better life than in Russia
"A political decision", are You serious? It's only logical and normal to get education in state language. It's abnormal for state to fund education in only foreign language, in langue for wich there aren't any use in country.
That's true. But it begs a question what the state language is and needs to be. If 30-ish% of your population are taling another language, you need to take this into account, ESPECIALLY of you want to make the case you are different form the Soviet occupants of that country who russified forcefully people. How you are going to explain to those other language people that you a different form the soviets? "See people, soviets russified use forcefully which was bad, but we would estonify you fordecully which is good"? really? I think it should be the case that russian is allowed, but Estonia must insist on the other hand that eveyone in Rusiia who identifies as estonian to receive reciprocal rights, that said to allow Estonian to be valid dalnguage in parts of Russia where estonians might live.
The old Russian population will die off and the younger people born in Estonia will and the middle aged population will eventually see how much better life is freed from the grip of an out of date Russia. As I always say. 'Name one country which has prospered under Russian control? ? ? Now name any country which has prospered when free of Russian rule? Poland, Czech Republic, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania. I rest my case!
I was in Tallinn over Xmas. It really was a weird feeling when I heard Russian everywhere. Not because russian language but because it sounded natural everywhere.
Estonia should be for Estonians, not for an invasive minority of foreign interlopers who invaded and colonized the country and then demand to have the same political, linguistic and cultural rights and representation that the indigenous majority has. Estonia needs to officially be an ethno-state!
Seems to me, if I was Estonian, I'd have a problem with even being asked about this. It is a principle thing. What should people pay for? Russian anything is not on the list. People can do what they want otherwise.
Guys who write about Soviet occupation apparently don't know that huge parts of Estonia were part of Russian Empire for 200-300 years, far before the USSR
It is perfectly reasonable to expect Estonian to become the national lingua franca - provided you do what is needed to make that happen. Respect your ethnic minorities by granting language rights. Don't expect the shift to happen in one generation. Two generations might be more reasonable.
Nope. Russians in Estonia actually like living in Estonia, as Russia is very poor compared to Estonia and they know it. Also we have a functioning military(unlike Russia) and NATO on our side, so Putin’s attempts at donbassing Estonia will 100% fail.
@@ТатьянаОрганова You do know that any attempts from Russia to donbass Estonia would just result in a lot of Russian corpses? But of course you don’t care, you just want “WAR WAR! reclaim the russian empire for the fuhrer i mean putler i mean putin!”
Narva was bombed down by Soviet air force in !944. Then occupied by the Soviets. In 1930's it was majority Estonian and had Swedish built old town. After the war Estonians were not let in. Only homini sovetici from somewhere...
There is nothing wrong with gradually shifting to estonia as the official formal language. However, it is wrong to dictate what people speak apart from official times. It is wrong to destroy historical and cultural heritage of a group of people. That in itself is fascism.
We are not dictating what people speak. If they want to speak Russian at home or with friends or whatever then that’s 100% fine. But derussifying Estonia by getting colonists to at least learn our language is a must.
@@ikopotamus7774 This derussifying is the biggest problem. The monuments of USSR that commemorate the sacrifice of USSR sacrifices during that war against Hitler includes estonia. Estonia should also be proud of once being part of the USSR that sacrificed 27 million souls in WW2. Removing WW2 thanks that commemorate the sacrifices of the USSR (estonia included) can only be done by people who are fascists and are hell bent on hating the RF. Is having a diversity and respect for each other a bad thing? This ideology of hating every thing Russian and be ignorant of the historical facts is the root of stupidity and would lead to wars over same old issues.
@@Ukie88 nobody denies the russification of the USSR territory. Now that estonia is independent it can choose what is best for its own future with due consideration to its multi-ethnic population. This town in this video has 97% Russian speaking Estonians and probably about more than 60% ethnic Russians. To remove monuments that commemorate USSR sacrifice against the NAZI during WW2 is just pure hatred for Russia. Estonia was part of the USSR that sacrificed 27 million souls to defeat Hitler. Estonians should should have some respect for the Estonians who fought against the Germans in WW2. Why remove the WW2 monuments at all when those monuments represent a collective success of the USSR which estonia was once part of it... Those removing WW2 monuments are Neonazi fascists and that is the reality that is causing a huge problem in Ukraine. If estonia is not careful the same fate awaits estonia in the not too distant future...
What a great idea, I’m sure this won’t have any bad effects at all. I mean it’s not like stuff like this is what caused the separatist movements in East Ukraine. Here’s a great idea, most of these Russian speakers aren’t die hard ultra nationalists, they recognise that the Soviet and Tsarist governments did bad things to the people of the Baltics. However they recognise that and don’t want those countries to not be independent. All these people wish to do is retain their ancestral culture and language. A good policy would be yes get them to integrate with the Estonian language yet also allow them to retain their ancestral language and be proud of it. At the end of the day like it or not Estonia’s main culture and history has been heavily influenced by others longer before Russia, Sweden/Finland and Prussia to be precise.
I think Estonia will find that the EU won't let them do this. Russian Estonians will simply go the the European court of Human Rights, where any discrimination on grounds of ethnicity, language,culture ,etc. is not allowed in any EU member country.
"where any discrimination on grounds of ethnicity, language,culture ,etc. is not allowed in any EU member country." What kind of discrimination exactly? As to the official languages or the language of instruction in state-funded education, both the EU and the European Court of Human Rights recogize that the Russian language is not native to Estonia. Russian in Estonia is the language of the immigrants. Immigrants do not have special language rights. In every respect the same thing with Turkish in Germany. Turkish is not an official language in Germany and never will be.
A multicultural and liberal society respects all including languages. A person can speaks more than 1 language. Forcing any ethnic group to abandon its own language lead to unwanted strive.
you got that wrong. everyone will be free to speak russian all day long - in private. but schools and other public institutions won't indulge in that exercise any longer. same with the monuments. who would keep monuments of an aggressor state which threatens your very existence on a daily basis?
But forbidding language teaching in schools is a classical form of persecuting ethnic minorities, and it is surprisingly effective. In Brazil, for example, the Tupi language was the first tongue of the majority of the population for great part of our colonial history, but after it was forbbiden to teach not only Tupi, but other imdigenous languages in school, basically almondt everyone in Brazil knows only Portuguese.
Besides, directing frustrations at the Russian people and culture is a dangerous path. Russia is a dictatorial government that strongly persecutes its opponents and uses media control to manipulate public opinion. It's simply not an easy thing to overthrow governments, they don't have the power to decide to start or end wars. Even Russian soldiers should not be persecuted in this way. The vast majority of them are not there because they want to, but because they are required by law. Defending practices like this is just a way to encourage prejudice and legitimize violence against people who can do nothing about war. Most of these ethnic russians are probably not even russian citizens!
@@marcelomartins7381 They're not forbidding the problem is that teachers don't speak Estonian and teaching Estonian lacks in schools resulting large part of Russian minority not speaking Estonian. Its kinda hypocritical comparing Brazil, while Russians have exterminated many native Siberian and Finnic languages.
@@marcelomartins7381 Brazil is a horrible example. In this example, Estonians would be the Tupi people while Russians would be the Portuguese, and we are now trying revive our language and culture and trying not to let the Portuguese portugueify us any further. Russians in Estonia are colonists, and if they want Russian schools so much they should just take the 15 minute trip eastwards.
Why this double standard ?! Any western country which has large amount of migrants u allow the use of their imported language. But when its Russia its somehow bad ?!
"gradual integration of the Russian speaking population" = compelling Russian speakers to conform to diktats from Tallinn to derussify the country. a la Kiev. how did that work out for Ukraine?
May God protect ethnic Russian and their culture in Estonia... I am afraid the rise another azov like extremist against them !! Love ethnic Russian from India
Estonia has been an independent country for more than 30 years now. The fact that young teens and teachers in their 50s can't speak Estonian is simply unacceptable.
I was in Tallinn three days for tourism and I still managed to learn some basic words. If you have been living there since you were born and know nothing, it's mean you never even bother to try.
Russians can't speak anything but Russian. They think everybody has to speak their language. Chauvinism.
I never was in Estonia and I think Estonian is a pretty difficult language. It's almost as close to Finnish in terms of the language difficulty.
@@Loterrach That's because Estonians are a Finnic people.
Estonian must be the national language in Estonia. Because of Soviet oppression Russian language was foisted on the population along with its Russification.
English was foisted upon America... Arabic on Egypt...
@@skp8748 Really? What's the American language?
I guess no single indigeneous language from North America would cover the whole area of todays USA and Canada but I guess that's what he means. The indigineous languages were there before english came. @@AndrD1406
Why would Estonia who suffered Russian occupation allow Russian language?
That area has always been historically ethnic Russian.
@@ceemor3404 It had been brutally occupied by Russia for centuries ,but it was never russian .
@@ceemor3404 Jesus christ. Estonia has never been ethnically Russian. Estonians aren’t related to Russians at all. Estonians have been around longer than any Moscow. But I guess rubles from your fascist government and Putler are worth more than the truth to you.
@@ceemor3404 That area was always ethnically Estonian, when USSR discovered uranium deposits, and other minerals they forced Estonians out and moved Russians in. Before WW2 Estonia was 91% ethnically Estonian now is 68%.
do you think we should kill all indigenous people in all countries.?
They can still learn and speak on their own , the official language of a country is a different thing.
How about make both of them official language? Many countries use multiple official languages when the population is diverse.
There can be "regional official language" in Narva, and some other regions, perhaps in Tallinn too.
@@bulthaosen1169 Ok, so Estonia was conquered by sovietland, later became independent EU Member State and that everything for becoming soviet once again? Are you nuts?
@@michastepien8326 how exactly is speaking your mother tongue a bad thing? Europeans are seriously one of the most hateful people on earth. Right behind muslims.
@@bulthaosen1169 In Germany we have many Turkish people, should we declare turkish as "official language" too??... You're really a fool
Well done Estonia!!! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
A recipe for the next Ukraine...lol..lol..
@@andyabuteo6084 I mean, no.
1. Russians like living in Estonia, as Russia is very poor compared to Estonia.
2. We have a functioning military(unlike what Russia will send over the border).
3. NATO
@@not_a_human_being Estonians decided already .....Estonian political elites respected their peoples wish....no need revision..
I find it difficult to understand why anyone born in Estonia hasn’t learned the language. In the USA, most of us are descendants of immigrants, but English is what we all speak, not by decree. It is the language of choice, in order to understand each other in our regular daily lives. Children of immigrants play together and communicate in the predominant language, while speaking with their parents in their native languages when at home. We’ve all learned bits and pieces of each other’s vocabulary, usually slang and vulgarities, but we don’t reject new terms and phrases automatically. There are separate communities where there are high percentages of non-English speakers, but those that wish to do commerce always embrace English, especially for their children. It’s great to be multilingual, but if you only know one language, it should be the one your country of residence transacts business, not that of a foreign entity…even if it exists right across the bridge. If I moved to Mexico, I would learn their version of Spanish and would not be putting up monuments to Texans, expecting it to be maintained or even respected. 🤷🏼
Russian Russian because Estonia was in the USSR, where everyone spoke Russian, and even now it is possible to use one Russian
@@marksolomonify you whiffed the ball with that load of bs. In (every) Chinatown, for instance, yes the adults tend to self-isolate, but their children do NOT grow up speaking only Chinese, they are bilingual. Second generation Estonians, should at the very LEAST be bilingual in Estonian plus whatever languages their parents spoke. The fact that Russians are pretending to be discriminated against, when *they* have actively imposed their language upon citizens of other countries is completely absurd. Your misinformation about the children of immigrants in the USA, tells me that you know nothing about my country and are, in fact, incredibly ignorant and isolated from reality. Stifle yourself, troll, you know nothing.
@@ФомаКиняев-ж2ш Well it obviously isn’t enough to only speak Russian, as most don’t speak it and you need to speak Estonian to get any good job.
@@marksolomonify How do we ‘discriminate’?? Learning the state language is literally for their own good, as that allows them to get out of their Russian-only bubble and get jobs in Estonia.
@@marksolomonify You have made many excellent points. However one line - "If you codify one language in law, this would be criminalizing other languages" would get you thrown out of law school if you ever said it. It is not at all true. I agree that there is no need in the US to make English an official language. Things have worked just fine as they are for quite some time now. Education does most of the work of integrating immigrant children. But in that particular comment, you seem to have jumped off a cliff into the void of irrational thinking.
You want to be or speak Russian? guess where you need to move.
Exactly!
Why need to move to somewhere they already are?
@@SYN022 because not everyone wants the Russian world. Want to speak Russian? Then go to Russia. Ahh, you don't want to lose all of the benefits of living in a western country where there's freedom and a better life than in Russia
Thats fascism in a new coat.
@@furuwrecker1420 And yet you Claim to be a Liberal Democrat.... fascist...lol..lol..
Estonians should speak Estonian it’s that simple. If russians want to go or visit Estonia then better start learning Estonian 🇪🇪
No
@stly6409 yes🤣
@@muhammedjaseemshajeef6781 English, I would say. No one will ever learn Estonia just for the sake of visiting the country.
@@Thomas.Deverell yep
@@Thomas.Deverell but I lived in UAE but I was not fluent in Arabic
"A political decision", are You serious? It's only logical and normal to get education in state language. It's abnormal for state to fund education in only foreign language, in langue for wich there aren't any use in country.
Hello fellow baltic bro! 100% agree here.
That's true. But it begs a question what the state language is and needs to be. If 30-ish% of your population are taling another language, you need to take this into account, ESPECIALLY of you want to make the case you are different form the Soviet occupants of that country who russified forcefully people. How you are going to explain to those other language people that you a different form the soviets? "See people, soviets russified use forcefully which was bad, but we would estonify you fordecully which is good"?
really?
I think it should be the case that russian is allowed, but Estonia must insist on the other hand that eveyone in Rusiia who identifies as estonian to receive reciprocal rights, that said to allow Estonian to be valid dalnguage in parts of Russia where estonians might live.
The old Russian population will die off and the younger people born in Estonia will and the middle aged population will eventually see how much better life is freed from the grip of an out of date Russia.
As I always say. 'Name one country which has prospered under Russian control? ? ?
Now name any country which has prospered when free of Russian rule? Poland, Czech Republic, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania.
I rest my case!
hahahaha. Lithuania, Estonia and especially Latvia where the half of the population just fled to Western Europe. Poles did the same by the way
@@felixsilvestri9428 16 mln ppl from Poland fled to Westen Europe?
You can think what you want, doesnt give you the right to dehumanize humans
@@Dikkeganzenclub You are humanitarian and according to you raping kids is cosy. That is very soviet approach
I was in Tallinn over Xmas. It really was a weird feeling when I heard Russian everywhere. Not because russian language but because it sounded natural everywhere.
50% of population of Tallinn are Russians! They work, pay taxes, serve in the army, Russian is their language - deal with it!
It's not natural, but fully artificial, imposed by the commies
russophobian detected
Why ?
@@sage0001 russodumbian detected, learn the language, muppet.
Estonia should be for Estonians, not for an invasive minority of foreign interlopers who invaded and colonized the country and then demand to have the same political, linguistic and cultural rights and representation that the indigenous majority has. Estonia needs to officially be an ethno-state!
Racist
Sounds very Genocide-ey?
@@AG-lz2gg yes
Tiblad välja
@@Kikels What do you mean?
Peace loving nations spread peace!
Seems to me, if I was Estonian, I'd have a problem with even being asked about this. It is a principle thing. What should people pay for? Russian anything is not on the list. People can do what they want otherwise.
That’s kind of racist.
Guys who write about Soviet occupation apparently don't know that huge parts of Estonia were part of Russian Empire for 200-300 years, far before the USSR
It is perfectly reasonable to expect Estonian to become the national lingua franca - provided you do what is needed to make that happen. Respect your ethnic minorities by granting language rights. Don't expect the shift to happen in one generation. Two generations might be more reasonable.
But you are from India what happens in the world should be your least concern putting in consideration you still shi*** on railway😂😂😂🙋🇮🇳
So ban french in Canada...
it is the second generation already.
This is not a subject you can solve in a comment section.
Hey, what about "human rights". These time words "human rights" sound sarcastic.
Not a human right to learna foreign language
@@L4NTZEN f0ck that. Understanding is the key. Cost effective. Lol.
@Eesti Rahvuslane неправда.
@Eesti Rahvuslane это эстонские права человека для эстонцы.
Another Donbas? 🙆🏾♂️
Nope. Russians in Estonia actually like living in Estonia, as Russia is very poor compared to Estonia and they know it. Also we have a functioning military(unlike Russia) and NATO on our side, so Putin’s attempts at donbassing Estonia will 100% fail.
I don t think Russia can afford a war against Nato in the near future or even ever.......
Maybe...
@@ТатьянаОрганова You do know that any attempts from Russia to donbass Estonia would just result in a lot of Russian corpses? But of course you don’t care, you just want “WAR WAR! reclaim the russian empire for the fuhrer i mean putler i mean putin!”
No, there is no Ests, Finns, Swedes in Donbass
Estonia should really get read of Russian schools as soon as possible. This should have been done 30 years ago.
Narva was bombed down by Soviet air force in !944. Then occupied by the Soviets. In 1930's it was majority Estonian and had Swedish built old town. After the war Estonians were not let in. Only homini sovetici from somewhere...
There is nothing wrong with gradually shifting to estonia as the official formal language. However, it is wrong to dictate what people speak apart from official times. It is wrong to destroy historical and cultural heritage of a group of people. That in itself is fascism.
We are not dictating what people speak. If they want to speak Russian at home or with friends or whatever then that’s 100% fine. But derussifying Estonia by getting colonists to at least learn our language is a must.
What heritage? Consequences of soviet Russification is not a cultural heritage. It was a political act of enslavement.
@@Ukie88 Agreed.
@@ikopotamus7774 This derussifying is the biggest problem. The monuments of USSR that commemorate the sacrifice of USSR sacrifices during that war against Hitler includes estonia. Estonia should also be proud of once being part of the USSR that sacrificed 27 million souls in WW2. Removing WW2 thanks that commemorate the sacrifices of the USSR (estonia included) can only be done by people who are fascists and are hell bent on hating the RF.
Is having a diversity and respect for each other a bad thing? This ideology of hating every thing Russian and be ignorant of the historical facts is the root of stupidity and would lead to wars over same old issues.
@@Ukie88 nobody denies the russification of the USSR territory. Now that estonia is independent it can choose what is best for its own future with due consideration to its multi-ethnic population.
This town in this video has 97% Russian speaking Estonians and probably about more than 60% ethnic Russians. To remove monuments that commemorate USSR sacrifice against the NAZI during WW2 is just pure hatred for Russia. Estonia was part of the USSR that sacrificed 27 million souls to defeat Hitler. Estonians should should have some respect for the Estonians who fought against the Germans in WW2. Why remove the WW2 monuments at all when those monuments represent a collective success of the USSR which estonia was once part of it...
Those removing WW2 monuments are Neonazi fascists and that is the reality that is causing a huge problem in Ukraine. If estonia is not careful the same fate awaits estonia in the not too distant future...
Like Russia so much, go to...Russia!
why?
Supporting ethnic cleansing huh
I actually hope they do that, so Estonia won't be able to use their workpower and those Russians won't be persecuted anymore by the Estonian regime
Estonia should ban Russian language
You know what they say, If you can't beat them, ban them...as that has worked well in the past.
Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, etc.
That actually never worked well. Sanctions sure did wonders for North Korea and Iran, huh? Their gouverments are totally more fair now
Beautiful 😍 , forget this orcs world and move forward to the future ✨️ ❤️.
You'd like to see a fascist future and that's why your ideology will fall, my misled brother
Stuff Ukraine.
Better in then out like ukraine found out from 2014 onwards.
What a great idea, I’m sure this won’t have any bad effects at all. I mean it’s not like stuff like this is what caused the separatist movements in East Ukraine. Here’s a great idea, most of these Russian speakers aren’t die hard ultra nationalists, they recognise that the Soviet and Tsarist governments did bad things to the people of the Baltics. However they recognise that and don’t want those countries to not be independent. All these people wish to do is retain their ancestral culture and language. A good policy would be yes get them to integrate with the Estonian language yet also allow them to retain their ancestral language and be proud of it. At the end of the day like it or not Estonia’s main culture and history has been heavily influenced by others longer before Russia, Sweden/Finland and Prussia to be precise.
I think Estonia will find that the EU won't let them do this. Russian Estonians will simply go the the European court of Human Rights, where any discrimination on grounds of ethnicity, language,culture ,etc. is not allowed in any EU member country.
As if the European court of Human Rights cares about anything else than executing a political agenda
"where any discrimination on grounds of ethnicity, language,culture ,etc. is not allowed in any EU member country."
What kind of discrimination exactly? As to the official languages or the language of instruction in state-funded education, both the EU and the European Court of Human Rights recogize that the Russian language is not native to Estonia. Russian in Estonia is the language of the immigrants. Immigrants do not have special language rights. In every respect the same thing with Turkish in Germany. Turkish is not an official language in Germany and never will be.
A multicultural and liberal society respects all including languages. A person can speaks more than 1 language. Forcing any ethnic group to abandon its own language lead to unwanted strive.
you got that wrong. everyone will be free to speak russian all day long - in private. but schools and other public institutions won't indulge in that exercise any longer. same with the monuments. who would keep monuments of an aggressor state which threatens your very existence on a daily basis?
But forbidding language teaching in schools is a classical form of persecuting ethnic minorities, and it is surprisingly effective. In Brazil, for example, the Tupi language was the first tongue of the majority of the population for great part of our colonial history, but after it was forbbiden to teach not only Tupi, but other imdigenous languages in school, basically almondt everyone in Brazil knows only Portuguese.
Besides, directing frustrations at the Russian people and culture is a dangerous path. Russia is a dictatorial government that strongly persecutes its opponents and uses media control to manipulate public opinion. It's simply not an easy thing to overthrow governments, they don't have the power to decide to start or end wars. Even Russian soldiers should not be persecuted in this way. The vast majority of them are not there because they want to, but because they are required by law. Defending practices like this is just a way to encourage prejudice and legitimize violence against people who can do nothing about war. Most of these ethnic russians are probably not even russian citizens!
@@marcelomartins7381 They're not forbidding the problem is that teachers don't speak Estonian and teaching Estonian lacks in schools resulting large part of Russian minority not speaking Estonian. Its kinda hypocritical comparing Brazil, while Russians have exterminated many native Siberian and Finnic languages.
@@marcelomartins7381 Brazil is a horrible example. In this example, Estonians would be the Tupi people while Russians would be the Portuguese, and we are now trying revive our language and culture and trying not to let the Portuguese portugueify us any further. Russians in Estonia are colonists, and if they want Russian schools so much they should just take the 15 minute trip eastwards.
Why this double standard ?!
Any western country which has large amount of migrants u allow the use of their imported language.
But when its Russia its somehow bad ?!
They are not immigrants, they are former conquerors.
"gradual integration of the Russian speaking population" = compelling Russian speakers to conform to diktats from Tallinn to derussify the country. a la Kiev. how did that work out for Ukraine?
May God protect ethnic Russian and their culture in Estonia... I am afraid the rise another azov like extremist against them !!
Love ethnic Russian from India
Seems like another conflict incoming.
I like only because I want more attention to this unjust act. this is the education of children. it has nothing to do with what's going on in Ukraine.