Well, this is not my opinion, it is the subtext of the film.
In order to construct the Estonian nation-state, it is necessary to "inclusive" ethnic Russians, incorporating them into the national narrative with "humanity" and "religion", acknowledging that they are also "victims of communism", possibly empathizing with ethnic Estonians. Orthodox Christian The Russians are good people, relatives of the Estonians (grandmother is Estonian), and will kill the Estonian "Kremlin"; it is not that the Russians are bad and the Estonians are good, but that capitalism is good and communism is bad.
This seemingly more "inclusive" and less "nationalistic" narrative is precisely an attempt to construct nationalism on a higher level; Estonian nationalism becomes a collection of victims of the sacred komi. Even the Estonian Soviet troops seemed to be fighting to destroy the Soviet system.
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