Friday, April 6, 2007

To Move a Soviet Statue

The Russian vice Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov is urging Russians to boycott Estonia.

Estonians are planning to move a statue erected by the Soviet Union after World War II, away from the center of Tallinn, the Estonian capital, to a cemetery.

Same kind of a statue was moved in Russia from under a tramway route with no problems.

To the Russians the statue is said to symbolize victory over fascism; to Estonians it symbolizes Soviet occupation.

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