One day Russia, its official spokespersons, its media and its street activists will have to finally accept the simple reality that opposition to a deadly and repressive totalitarian Soviet occupation is not the equivalent of embracing or celebrating a deadly and repressive totalitarian Nazi occupation. Until that day, proponents of the “anti-Soviet equals pro-Nazi” view will continue to make an unfortunate international spectacle of themselves, and will continue to deny credibility to themselves from anyone other than from themselves. Regarding some specifics mentioned in the article, (1) Beckman’s literary output on Estonia has little in common with factual history. (2) The Red Army did not liberate Estonia. The simplest and most convincing proof of that is that after they had done their bit, there still was no liberty there. All that the Red Army of the Bronze Soldier fame did was exchange one foreign oppressive occupation regime for another, and that is nothing to celebrate. (3) If someone was ever silly enough to advocate that the Wehrmacht “liberated” rather than occupied western and southern Russia in WW2, I very much doubt that the Russian government of today (or of any other era) would grant him a visa to visit. Yet strangely enough, Russia thinks it is quite appropriate to criticize Estonia for refusing entry to proponents of the equivalent “no Soviet occupation” line.