It's time to remove these monuments to rape and conquest. If Russia wants them then Russia should come get them. But they have no place on the soil of other nations who were enslaved by the USSR and who are now free.
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. History has stopped
When did Neocons join with the left in pulling down monuments?
The T-34 is the tank that beat the nazis. I wouldn’t mind having it in my yard
It's like having a statue of King George III at the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
“Prime Minister Kaja Kallas admitted that the city of Narva has the right to decide the fate of the tank. “But because it is clear that Narva itself will not intervene, the Estonian state and government must make the decision to move this and other monuments of symbolic value,” said Kallas.“
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This is horseshit. The Estonian state and government have no right to make the decision.
Estonia has dine this from the beginning, hell they destroyed their soviet arms rather than sell them for new.
fools
The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact gave independent Estonia to the Soviets. -1
The Soviets liberated Estonia from the Nazis. +1
The Soviets would not restore Estonian independence. -1
Sorry, Russia. The net score here is a -1. You lose. The monuments have to go. But please don’t forget any of the above three things. That +1 was a pretty important thing.
It might have been worse for them had the USSR had not driven the Nazis out.
OK. After WWI Russia (now the newly minted USSR) was treated as a losing side in the war and new nations were carved from their territory, including Finland, Poland, and the Baltic Nations.
The new USSR wasn’t happy about this and tried to take its part of Poland back, but Poland repelled them. They then signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in which they agreed to take back ‘their’ part of Poland and let Germany take the rest as well as retaking the Baltic nations. USSR then had a go at Finland, but that didn’t go as planned. Then Germany attacked the USSR taking all of Poland and the Baltics. After years the Red Army won nearly all of the lost territory back.
Somewhat ironically, the USSR was allowed to keep ‘its’ part of Poland as well as the Baltic nations after WWII. They also got to keep the bits of Finland they took in the second Finnish war.
After the war, the Soviets moved many citizens of the Baltic nations out and moved Russians in. The citizens of the Baltic nations do not have fond memories of the Russian, Soviet or German occupations of their nations.
The Estonians should offer the statues to Seattle.
Estonia should forcibly eject the Ethnic Russians out, just like Ukraine should have done in the 1990s, and will have to do if they manage to get Dombass and Crimea back. Also forcibly remove anyone who is part of any Communist or Socialist party, back to Russia.
Memento Park, Budapest, Hungary
Museum of Socialist Art, Sofia, Bulgaria
What about all of the Confederate monuments/memorials taken down in the U.S. over the last 3 years?
“It’s time to remove these monuments to rape and conquest.”
That’s right!! Just like we did to the monuments of Robert E Lee, Columbus, Jefferson, confederate soldiers, confederate monuments - even the slave holding founding father’s statues should come down.
They are such good constant reminders that freedom isn’t free nor fighting for it occassional, to remove them is to push ignorance and repeat.
Like removing justice tanney from annapolis....tragic loss of education for every adult and child passing by daily or occassionally.