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A controversial Soviet-era tank monument was removed by government order from its plinth in the eastern city of Narva on Tuesday after several weeks of discussion. It has now been moved to the Estonian War Museum in Viimsi.
A controversial Soviet-era tank monument was removed by government order from its plinth in the eastern city of Narva on Tuesday after several weeks of discussion. It has now been moved to the Estonian War Museum in Viimsi.
Tanks are not needed to remember the fallen when there are graves and graveyards, President Alar Karis said on Tuesday, after the removal of the Soviet T-34 tank monument from Narva. Karis believes a line should now be drawn under the issue.
Estonia is using heavy equipment to relocate a Soviet tank monument in the Estonian-Russian border town of Narva. The debate about the Soviet legacy in the country flared up again with the Ukraine war.
Center Party chairman Jüri Ratas has told Tatjana Stolfat, head of the Center group on Narva City Council, that the Soviet tank monument on the bank of the Narva River is not fit for the public space and must be removed in cooperation with the Estonian government.