It seems just like yesterday that I was talking about Independence day celebrations, cheering crowds and politician loving the sound of their own voices as they babbled along at the recently opened Freedom Square.
Well yesterday the politicians were back making more speeches in Freedom Square, this time it was to commemorate the 1939 Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact when Hitler and Stalin sliced up the
Baltic countries and Poland between at the outset of World War II.
But this time instead of vast crowds straining to get a better view of what was happening, the Estonian President found himself alone but for a couple of tourist who were wondering what a TV crew was doing there as he laid his reef.
Was this one commemoration too many perhaps?
Or maybe its time to forgive, if not forget?
Forget this pact?
Well maybe, but too forgive and forget the curse placed on these lands by those two dictatorships?
No, I don't think so, not for a long time yet.
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