In the 1980s, academic Mikhail Bronstein bought a local silk in a store in the center of Tallinn, was in a hurry and for the first time in his life used his right as a veteran of the Great Patriotic War not to stand in line. One Estonian responded:
I am a veteran too!
“Well, you also go without a line,” Bronstein suggested.
I was not given that right. I fought on the other side.
Why did you fight so badly?