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Estonia. Soviet monuments taken from public places in the city of Narva


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The T-34 tank placed in Narva, Estonia, marks the place where the Russian army entered the country in 1944 during World War II to expel the German occupiers. Now the government wants to keep the tank in a museum: does not accept that the monument is used to fuel tensions in Estonian societythe government announced on Tuesday.

“Considering the rapidly rising tensions and confusion around the monuments in Narva, we must act quickly to ensure public order and internal securityEstonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said in the statement. “That is why the government made the decision to remove the war monuments of the old regime. [soviético] to prevent them from promoting more hostility in society and opening old wounds.”

The leader of the country that marks one of the borders between NATO and Russia criticized the invasion of Ukraine from the beginning and compared Russian President Vladimir Putin to the former dictators of Germany and Russia, Hitler and Stalin, in an opinion piece published in The New York Times newspaper. “In NATO, our approach must be simple: Putin can’t win this war“, he reinforced.

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Source: Observadora

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