The Estonian Internal Security Service (ISS) has issued a warning about Russian intelligence activities to recruit people to carry out provocations in connection with the Tannenberg Line Memorial Day, ERR News reports.
The ISS reported that in recent days it has received more frequent reports of social media appeals and calls to damage monuments related to the battle. Social media is a place where Russian special services regularly conduct recruitment. The service reminded that cooperation or maintaining contact with Russian intelligence is punishable.
The Tannenberg Line memorial have been targeted by Russian intelligence services in the past.
Those involved in previous attacks have been identified and punished.
The ISS calls for reporting recruitment attempts.
The Battle of Tannenberg Line took place in 1944, from the 24th of July to the 10th of August, in Northern Estonia. The 20th Estonian SS Division fought against the Red Army. At the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries, a memorial was erected in the Blue Hills (Sinimäed), where the battle took place, to honor the Estonians who participated. Unlike the units of Nazi Germany, the Baltic legionnaires did not support the ideology of Adolf Hitler and were not war criminals. This is also confirmed by a document issued by the US investigative committee in 1950.
In 2023, the Blue Hills Memorial was vandalized.
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