[Marxism] Today Ossetia, tomorrow ?

[Greg McDonald <sabocat59@xxxxxxx>]

Two Estonian farms establish 'Soviet republic,' seek recognition
16:26   |       03/ 09/ 2008
        


ST. PETERSBURG, September 3 (RIA Novosti) - Two farms in north-east  
Estonia have joined forces to declare an independent "Soviet  
republic" and intend to seek Russia's recognition, a Russian  
communist organization said on Wednesday.

"We no longer want to live in bourgeois Estonia, where nobody cares  
about the common people...with raging unemployment and corruption,  
and where everything depends on NATO and the Americans," Russian  
communists from St Petersburg, who are assisting the 'republic,'  
quoted its founder, Andres Tamm, as saying.

Residents and founders of the 'Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic'  
have already formed a national 'Soviet government,' a police force,  
and have begun demarcating the state's borders.

Meanwhile, residents of the republic claim that the "bourgeois"  
Estonian government has sent a "squad of relatives of Estonian Nazi  
SS veterans" to regain control over the breakaway territory.

The republic is currently drafting a treaty of friendship with Russia  
to be submitted to the Russian president in the next few days.

Estonia is a former Soviet republic and a current member of both NATO  
and the EU.


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