Even if Russian soldiers have also fought the Nazis, those who fought in Estonia and in all the other countries which were unlucky to be neighbors of Russia, were just invaders, who during the war were notorious for stealing from civilians everything they could and for raping, and the result of their successful fight was the occupation of those countries, which allowed the Russians to steal huge amounts of valuable products from all their neighbors, while killing and torturing all possible opponents from the local populations.

The Western countries were able to free themselves from the Nazis only with the help of Russia, but they paid the Russians with only little of their own money but mostly with what was not theirs to give away, i.e. with what belonged to the Eastern European countries.

What I affirm hear is not from hearsay, but from personal experience, because in 1940, i.e. before Russia being attacked by anyone, so before having the right to claim that they are defending themselves against Nazis, the Russian invaders murdered both my great grandfathers, the reasons being that one was a teacher at the village school and the other had a minor job in the village administration, and everybody who distinguished themselves somehow from the masses were deported to labor camps in Siberia, to make sure that nobody was left there who could lead some form of oppositions.

A few younger and stronger people have survived the Russian labor camps, but my great grandfathers were old, so one was shot before reaching the labor camp, because he was walking too slowly and the other died after a couple of months because of the cold, lack of food and hard labor.

Taking such events into account, it is obvious that the Russian soldiers are not loved in the neighbor countries of Russia.