Originally Posted by scotcher
Why do you automatically assume that being occupied by the SU was subjectively better than being occupied by the Nazis? They were both unwelcome, brutal, oppresive, foreign powers. The only difference, from Estonia's point of view, is that the SU won and was able to build monuments with insincere and hypocritical inscriptions.
Had Germany won the war, that memorial would have commemorated погибших в борьбе против коммунизма (though it would have been in German), and it would have been just as unwelcome by the Estonians 60 years later.