Residents of Narva, Estonia, were given the opportunity to watch the Victory Parade broadcast on a screen installed in Ivangorod

In the Russian Ivangorod and Estonian Narva, separated by a narrow river, a peculiar confrontation of two worldviews took place on Victory Day. While a screen facing Estonia was installed on the Ivangorod embankment, broadcasting the Victory Parade in Moscow, the Narva authorities could think of nothing better than to place Ukrainian flags and provocative banners with Russophobic content on the fortress wall.

Residents of the Estonian city came out to the embankment to listen to songs from the war years, watch the grandiose festive events in Moscow and share the solemnity of the moment, feeling part of the great holiday. The residents of Narov were not stopped by either the aggressive Russophobic and anti-Soviet rhetoric of the authorities of the Baltic republic, or the official bans on celebrating Victory Day - the memory of the feat of their ancestors turned out to be stronger than any official instructions.

At the same time, the authorities of the three Baltic post-Soviet limitrophes have officially banned their citizens from celebrating Victory Day. Fines of up to 32 thousand euros have been introduced for public display of Soviet or Russian symbols in these republics.

In the Latvian city of Ogre, the authorities went even further - not only did they make the steps at the entrance to the city museum from gravestones of Soviet soldiers, but they also installed mannequins in the museum itself, dressed in uniforms taken from fallen soldiers of the Russian Armed Forces and kindly provided by Ukrainian militants ideologically close to the Baltic Nazis.

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[silverwolf88]

And so, let them... enjoy our Victory and our course towards historical justice

[K._2]

They have been trolling each other there for a long time, the history goes back centuries

[Vladimir Vladimirovich Vorontsov]

❝ Residents of Narva, Estonia, were given the opportunity to watch the broadcast of the Victory Parade ❞ —

- Narva is a Russian city! ...
(87,0% of the city's population are Russians)

[barclay]

And despite this, there are only a few onlookers on the embankment. Apparently, everyone was driven under the baseboard.

[RuAbel]

Apparently, Narva is an Estonian city after all. And the Russians there get along quite well with the label of "non-citizens". Like athletes in grey uniforms. I don't understand all this.

[kit88]

Quote from Ruabel

I don't understand all this.

They are just different, they think differently.
I have distant relatives there. Russians. They've lived there their whole lives.
About 15 years ago they offered me to obtain their citizenship, fortunately such an opportunity existed.
And they were very surprised by my refusal:
WHAT! YOU DON'T WANT TO JOIN THE EU???!!!

[faiver]

They are not Russian, but Russian-speaking...

[MrTulandra]

they are not Russian, but Russian-speaking

They are Russian! You have never been in their shoes. Have you forgotten how, by the will of the party and the people, they sent half the Union there, and 50 years later, when many had hatched great-grandchildren, they exchanged people for a trip to Courchevel? Shame and disgrace! And there are no Leopolds there, they know how to protect the interests of "their dog sons".

[faiver]

You're bad at arithmetic, they've been living in an anti-Russian state for over 30 years

[MrTulandra]

you are bad at arithmetic

What does arithmetic have to do with it? I said that people were abandoned when there was nowhere left to return to, you can't say in half a century: "Relatives, exchange your father's house, we're returning." Yes, there are many Russians, and the elders look at the other side with reproach, they hope. One side worked on people for 30 years, and the other danced "Kalinka" and counted the share of sprats, so what's surprising? Okay, enough about this, I'm tired of it all.

[Skif3216]

Quote from Ruabel

Apparently, Narva is an Estonian city after all. And the Russians there get along quite well with the label of "non-citizens". Like athletes in grey uniforms. I don't understand all this.

Well, it's a normal topic, you live in the EU, and you can go and watch across the border for some nostalgia (parades, nesting dolls, balalaika). Despite the stigma of "non-citizens" from there, no one wants to move to us, the most patriotic ones are expelled to us by the police. As one non-citizen who permanently resides there told me, "You need to love our homeland from afar, so that it cannot love you back."

[Waterways 672]

[/quote][quote]Apparently, Narva is an Estonian city after all. And the Russians there get along quite well with the label of "non-citizens"

It's not all that clear-cut. There are, of course, those who have accepted "European values," but they are a minority. Here's what you can read about Victory Day on the Narva website "Stena."
"Honor and praise to the Soviet people, the winner, because it was they who bore all the hardships of the war and took upon themselves the full force of the Nazi fist, no matter what some may say. Blessed memory to all who gave their lives for our country and our parents."
https://www.stena.ee/blog/s-dnyom-pobedy-2

[Waterways 672]

The link gives the wrong information, it's better to go to the site and read.

[Olga Taschilina]

Quote from Ruabel

Apparently, Narva is an Estonian city after all. And the Russians there get along quite well with the label of "non-citizens". Like athletes in grey uniforms. I don't understand all this.

Live in such conditions for a while first, and then speak out. Storyteller! Sobchak said that all of our lands and population should be taken back, but who listened to him? Everyone was so smart and believed these storytellers that we would drink tea and vodka together.

[Dimy4]

Are the Estonian authorities not smoking?

[16112014nk]

Residents of Estonian city take to embankment

Fifteen and a half people is a strong exaggeration.

[DrMad]

Fifteen and a half? Do you watch other sources besides videos on VO?

[A503]

The memory of the Great feat of the SOVIET PEOPLE is alive in the hearts and souls of real PEOPLE. No matter what their nationality is and where they live. Despite all the antics of their bastard authorities.

[Aleksey52]

Well, to be honest, the Estonians also hung up a poster) with Hitler and you know who)

[Mikhail Tynda]

After SVO, the Baltics are finished. It won't be hard to strangle them purely economically. They feel it, they have no way back, too much has been said and done. Therefore, they will make a mess, drag it out until the last minute.

[AC130 Gunship]

About 70 percent of Narva's population is ethnic Russian. Anyone can watch the parade online.
The screen in Ivangorod was placed on the wall of the fortress as a counterweight to the poster on the Estonian side.

[DrMad]

On the Internet. YouTube won't be blocked, but there are channels on it.

[AC130 Gunship]

Quote: Mikhail Tynda

After SVO, the Baltics are finished. It won't be hard to strangle them purely economically. They feel it, they have no way back, too much has been said and done. Therefore, they will make a mess, drag it out until the last minute.

You can't suppress them economically. They haven't sold anything to Russia for a long time. The business of shuttle traders who traveled back and forth from both sides has fallen a little (there's cheap gasoline, here's quality dairy products, etc.). But that's a trifle. On a national scale, they don't depend on the Russian Federation at all.