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Published: 28 April, 2008, 18:33


The Bronze soldier monument

German’s Die Deutsche Zeitung writes that the Estonian government has announced the total sum of its financial losses as a result of the removal of a Soviet war memorial from central Tallinn last April at $US 700 MLN.

 
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Kihnu April 21, 2011, 22:02 quote
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Worth every penny to remove this statute from the middle of a busy intersection to a dignified site in the Tallinn military cemetery.
Let the Russians and their anti-fascists sidekicks whine to the moon. 
Good move Estonia.  I am proud to be a native son of Narva.

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