An improvised hence an informal message I wrote to the Fiat (first through their online submission form, then to their public relations office, c/-ed to a dozen of so executives) that pertains to the issue of multilayered ethnic and linguistic discrimination in Estonia and Latvia, and also, something that I strongly believe in, that the discrmination could be countered and reversed if the Russian speakers themselves were both willing to confront the Nazis in areas where third parties are involved and by their behavior as consumers. The latter could force those who collaborate with Estonian and Latvian Nazis (and Estonia and Latvia are Nazi states under EU and NATO protectorate, at least for the time being) to mend their ways. The point is that the Russian speakers should not do business with those who discrminate against them and, secondly, the most potent weapon in the arsenal of fighting the Nazis in this area would be to pass a law by the Russian Federation parliament, something that I thought of like almost ten years ago (Duma wasn't ready for something so major then and is probably not ready to do anything now due to the very strong American and Nazi/EU lobbies in it) that would first fine and then prohibit commercial activities of the violators in the Russian Federation and confiscate assets of those companies that persistenly engage in voluntary language discrimination or demonstratively exclude Russian language from packaging, product instructions, advertising material in the Baltic states. On the other note I believe that much of this is caused by the ignorance and stupidity, not illwill, in the state of total apartheid like Estonia, foreign executives are likely to deal first with representatives of the ethnocracy, individuals of certain tribal affiliation, that push the made up and make believe picture of monolingual Estonia and Latvia, in reality two bilingual societies,onto hapless foreigners who don't know any better.
Here is the improvised message. I am quite sure it will get across to the intended recipient.
Buongiorno, Mi scuso perché scrivo in inglese. I just want to buy a Fiat for a small company in Estonia (I already bought a number of Fiats in the Czech Republic and in the Russian Federation) and my partner and I were looking for a company car. I am a long time fan of Fiat. However I discovered that ww.fiat.ee website is only available in the tongue known as Estonian. This is a pity because 40% of inhabitants of the former Estonian SSR speak Russian. After all this has been the civilized language of the province for soon 300 years. In some towns like in the Northeast of the territory close to 90% of population are Russian speakers and I am sure that everyone who comes to the Fiat , and there are not many in that region (I am not a resident of the ethno-Nazi satrapy) if he or she is a Russian speaker, and that is close to the half of your potential customers in Estonia, and considering the cultural differences perhaps 90% of your likely customers, are repulsed by the in-your-face display of contempt for the Russian speakers and for your policy of ethnic and linguistic discrimination as expressed in the fiat's website (www.fiat.ee). I understand that the cause of this crime could be ignorance, not malice or if there is malice it is that of the Estonian Nazis whom the Fiat contracted to conduct its promotional affairs in the territory. It is true that today Estonia is an ethno-Nazi statelet run by ethnic fascists, an ethnocracy, however although Russians or Russian speakers and the Russian language itself are all subject to intense and grotesque discrimination in and by the ethnofascist entity, a private company, like the Fiat, does not have to discriminate. For example your competitor, Toyota. has a website in Estonia that is both in Estonian and in Russian (and two more regional languages) - you can compare Fiat's sales vis-a-vis Toyota's to find out if that matters. Likewise, the site of Renault's distributor in Estonia is also bilingual - http://www.citymotors.ee
So why offend and insult your potential customers? In my case, the language issue matters. I had checked Fiat Latvia site and it is also monolingual, the Russian language is not present. In a bilingual state where Russian speakers have most money, and are close to represent half of the population, but are politically oppressed, Fiat chooses not to be neutral and impartial and to stand on the side of the ethnocratic oppressors. In my opinion it is not nice to play together with the Estonian and Latvian Nazis, and I think this fact alone would probably hurt your reputation in greater Russia, where this might or would become eventually known.
I urge you to stop discrimination and to make both sites for Estonia and Latvia bilingual, that is that both sites should also be available in Russian. I also urge you that your distributors in those statelets employ Russian speaking personnel, maintain Russian language websites and do not engage in obvious discrimination. Although I bought five new Fiats in the last few years and have been a dedicated a loyal customer this is one thing that would most certainly cause me to defect to another marque unless the situation is rectified.
Best regards,
Here is the improvised message. I am quite sure it will get across to the intended recipient.
Buongiorno, Mi scuso perché scrivo in inglese. I just want to buy a Fiat for a small company in Estonia (I already bought a number of Fiats in the Czech Republic and in the Russian Federation) and my partner and I were looking for a company car. I am a long time fan of Fiat. However I discovered that ww.fiat.ee website is only available in the tongue known as Estonian. This is a pity because 40% of inhabitants of the former Estonian SSR speak Russian. After all this has been the civilized language of the province for soon 300 years. In some towns like in the Northeast of the territory close to 90% of population are Russian speakers and I am sure that everyone who comes to the Fiat , and there are not many in that region (I am not a resident of the ethno-Nazi satrapy) if he or she is a Russian speaker, and that is close to the half of your potential customers in Estonia, and considering the cultural differences perhaps 90% of your likely customers, are repulsed by the in-your-face display of contempt for the Russian speakers and for your policy of ethnic and linguistic discrimination as expressed in the fiat's website (www.fiat.ee). I understand that the cause of this crime could be ignorance, not malice or if there is malice it is that of the Estonian Nazis whom the Fiat contracted to conduct its promotional affairs in the territory. It is true that today Estonia is an ethno-Nazi statelet run by ethnic fascists, an ethnocracy, however although Russians or Russian speakers and the Russian language itself are all subject to intense and grotesque discrimination in and by the ethnofascist entity, a private company, like the Fiat, does not have to discriminate. For example your competitor, Toyota. has a website in Estonia that is both in Estonian and in Russian (and two more regional languages) - you can compare Fiat's sales vis-a-vis Toyota's to find out if that matters. Likewise, the site of Renault's distributor in Estonia is also bilingual - http://www.citymotors.ee
So why offend and insult your potential customers? In my case, the language issue matters. I had checked Fiat Latvia site and it is also monolingual, the Russian language is not present. In a bilingual state where Russian speakers have most money, and are close to represent half of the population, but are politically oppressed, Fiat chooses not to be neutral and impartial and to stand on the side of the ethnocratic oppressors. In my opinion it is not nice to play together with the Estonian and Latvian Nazis, and I think this fact alone would probably hurt your reputation in greater Russia, where this might or would become eventually known.
I urge you to stop discrimination and to make both sites for Estonia and Latvia bilingual, that is that both sites should also be available in Russian. I also urge you that your distributors in those statelets employ Russian speaking personnel, maintain Russian language websites and do not engage in obvious discrimination. Although I bought five new Fiats in the last few years and have been a dedicated a loyal customer this is one thing that would most certainly cause me to defect to another marque unless the situation is rectified.
Best regards,
Hey I got a better idea. You could learn the Estonian language, seeing as you live here. All of you.
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Well, you Nazis make baseless assumptions, I don't live in what has become the ethno-Nazi statelet of Estonia, I never lived in the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic, I never had a Russian Federation passport either. In fact I came to the ethno-Nazi statelet of Estonia as an adult and the purpose why I came was my work, I did not go there on leisure - there are nicer places to be world, or to fight any injustice as I have better things to do. Being there - after living in the United States and Austria - was a revelation as it taught me a lot, what is Nazism, what it means to be a victim linguistic and ethnic discrimination, how the Jews felt under and in the Third Reich, probably right before the Final Solution, what is ethnic dictatorship like, and what was the experience of South Africa although I know old South Africa personally and the ethno-Nazi regime in today's Estonia puts old apartheid state to shame. Thus said, I don't think Russian speakers should learn that language, why should they? After all this has been a part of Russia for 300 years except for two very brief periods of time, it is the language of the majority in parts of the territory and in entire Russia, and after the territory is returned to tits proper owners I am sure it would be much easier to rectify the situation by making that piece of land lastingly and durably monolingual than to suffer from outbreaks of ethno-Nazism. I hope we'll see the ethno-State eradicated in the reasonably near or intermediate future. But my point that even while the ethno-Nazi Estonia is around, there are ways to neutralize ethnocracy's policies by forcing a different kind of behavior by generally peaceful, commercial means.
ReplyDeletein that case you are the one and only nazi here.
ReplyDeleteThat's illogical - I have a diverse experience as geographically and culturally as wide apart as the United States and Austria, Czech Republic and Germany or France and Austria and nowhere did I encounter the real Nazism or vestiges of it as they had evolved in the Third Reich, until I came (first on a business assignment) to what is now ethno-Nazi statelet of former Soviet Estonia, which along Latvia down south, are the only true Nazi states on the map, Croatia does not make the grade, which probably put old parts of Nazi Germany itself to shame (after Germans are humane and human - I like them and I had a privilege of living with them). Nowhere else Nazi ideology is worshiped as it is in Estonia (Latvia is milder, and ethnic and linguistic oppression in Latvia is much milder as well) or where for the first time - in mature adulthood I realized what it is to be discriminated against or to live in an ethnic dictatorship - of which Estonia is the ultimate example. In a way getting acquainted with Estonia and ethnic/tribal Estonians nourished on Nazi propaganda and the notions of their tribal exclusivity in the land made me a better person, I realized what the real evil is, how the opposite of humanity looks like and feels and what it is to be discriminated against.
Deleteand thing... raising awareness about discrimination works, the Fiat responded and I am sure they will have bilingual site and documentation in the nearest future in Nazi ethnostate of Estonia; this means that I'd buy another Fiat for the company (and would not switch to Renault for example) whilst that won't effect sales of their vehicles among ethno-Nazis who for cultural reasons won't buy them anyway.
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