From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 5/9/2007 2:48 AM BBC NEWS Putin in veiled attack on Estonia Russian President Vladimir Putin has condemned people who "desecrate memorials to war heroes", accusing them of sowing discord between nations. Vladimir Putin Russia marks victory in World War II a day later than Western Europe
His comments at a Victory Day commemoration in Red Square appeared to be a continuation of a war of words with Estonia.
Estonia last month moved a Soviet-era war memorial out of the city-centre of the capital, Tallinn.
The move angered ethnic Russians in Estonia, and led to violent clashes.
One person was killed in the disturbances, and hundreds arrested.
The reasons for any war must be sought in the mistakes and miscalculations of peacetime, and their roots are in the ideology of confrontation and extremism Vladimir Putin Many Estonians consider the monument a symbol of the Soviet occupation, which continued for nearly 50 years after World War II.
But for Russians it commemorates the Soviet victory over Nazism.
"The reasons for any war must be sought in the mistakes and miscalculations of peacetime, and their roots are in the ideology of confrontation and extremism," Mr Putin said.
He also warned of "new threats" based on "the same contempt for human life and the same claims of exceptionalism and diktat in the world as in the Third Reich".
Some 7,000 soldiers marched on Red Square after Mr Putin's speech, and nine jet fighters flew overhead.
The Estonian foreign minister has accused the Russian government of orchestrating the disturbances in Tallinn, and paying demonstrators to blockade the Estonian embassy in Moscow.
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