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Well, it's a difficult topic, there was no 'good side' on the Eastern front, on one side you had Nazi Germany and on the other side you had Bolshevik Russia, none were fighting for 'freedom', they were both fighting to impose a different kind of oppression.
A country like Estonia that was caught in the middle had no decent way out, regardless of the outcome of the war, it would either end up annexed by the USSR or annexed by the IIIrd Reich, there was no other alternative.
No matter which side they chose, no matter if they were on the winning or the losing side of the war, oppression was the only thing waiting for the Estonian people.
And let's not forget that it's the Soviet Union which invaded Estonia in 1940 (Estonia was neutral before that, like Finland), and there was only 2 sides in that war, the Allies and the Axis, and since Estonia had been invaded by one of the Allies, it fell automatically in the Axis side.
Estonia simply ended up on the side that had *not* attacked it, it was not a choice, it simply had no other alternative.
That's why in the end i consider Estonia a victim of the war, no matter what side they were on, especially since the war was followed for them by half a century of Soviet oppression.
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