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On December 28, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova accused Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas of Hitlerism for calling for refugees from Ukraine to learn Estonian:"Adolf (Hitler) would be proud of you (Prime Minister of Estonia). Without you, it would be much more difficult to prove the dehumanization of the collective West. Estonia for Estonians, right? Say it, at last, stop wrinkling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with sweaty palms." This statement is misleading. Estonia hosted 64,000 Ukrainian refugees and provided them with housing, employment, health insurance, education, and Estonian language courses.The sharp reaction of the Russian foreign ministry was caused by the statement of the prime minister of Estonia, Kaja Kallas. In an interview with the Estonian public Russian-language TV channel ETV+, she said:Estonian language courses are also important. We don’t want that in Estonia will appear a new community that doesn’t speak Estonian. Even if they return (to Ukraine)
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