There were reasons for it before too, let's be honest. I mean some people are just racist, but the soviet occupation is still in people's memory and unfortunately many Russians act superior to everyone else. Among the older ones, it was not uncommon to say there's no point in learning Estonian as we'd eventually be part of Russia again anyway, at least in the past.

I'd say for the most part we have been fairly tolerant of these settlers installed by the soviet empire.