On top of that, I see numerous flubs on post-Soviet states that don’t bode well: he discusses Estonia holding elections where 42 percent of the population was barred from voting because of being Russian, Ukrainian or Belarusian. While the issue of non-citizenship for substantial numbers of people in Estonia and Latvia has rightly been an issue, this is an inflated number, as even in 1989 ethnic Estonians were over 61% of the population.

This is the worst Reddit-tier wankery I've ever read. Literally doesn't even address Parenti's point of Estonia being a social-fascist state, just dismisses it entirely because the figure was off by 3 percentage points.