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Estonian Legion Friends Club: The state does not value those who saved the honor of Estonian soldiers
Translated from Estonian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.
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- The Estonian Legion Friends Club says the Sinimäed memorial event has received little advance media coverage for decades.
- The group questions whether the lack of publicity reflects deliberate information withholding or state direction.
The Estonian Legion Friends Club says a decades-old pattern surrounds media coverage of the Sinimäed memorial event. It claims that advance information about the event has not appeared in the media for decades, even though reports eventually acknowledge that it took place.
The club asks whether information is being deliberately withheld or whether the state has directed that the event must not be promoted.
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Originally published by Postimees in Estonian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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