"Thank you for freeing us from Nazi Germany. No thank you for commandeering our independence."
The unasuming bronze statue of a soldier used to stand in Tonismagi Valjak in Tallinn, Estonia. The problem? The soldier also stood for, in the minds of many Estonians, the Soviet regime whose iron fist ruled Estonia from 1944 to 1991.
The Bronze Soldier has been removed from the square, but not the minds of the people of Estonia. As the unrest mounts, I return to Tallinn on May 3.
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