In Estonia, museum staff destroyed monuments to Soviet soldiers

Employees of the Estonian Military Museum have destroyed monuments in honor of Soviet sailors, soldiers and officers who liberated the republic from Nazi invaders at the Tallinn Military Cemetery. This was announced on April 2 by the Russian Embassy in Estonia.

"On April 2, employees of the Estonian Military Museum, under the personal supervision of Director Helle Lille, committed another act of state vandalism, destroying monuments in the Tallinn military cemetery in honor of the brave Baltic sailors, soldiers and officers who died," the diplomatic mission's Telegram channel reported.

The Russian Embassy also drew attention to the fact that Estonia continues to honor the legionnaires of the 20th Waffen-SS Division, to whom monuments are being erected.

The statement emphasizes that such actions indicate Tallinn's desire to review the results of the Second World War and explain its refusal to support Russia's annual draft resolution of the UN General Assembly on "Combating the glorification of Nazism."

"We appeal to the remnants of the Estonian leadership's conscience and call for an end to the desecration of the graves of people who saved the world from the brown plague," the diplomatic mission concluded.

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Earlier, on January 31, the Russian Embassy in Tallinn sent a protest note to the Estonian Foreign Ministry over the demolition of the stele and the dismantling of the slabs with the names of Red Army soldiers on a mass grave in the city of Valga. It is specified that the Estonian authorities have carried out a "new act of state vandalism" against Soviet military personnel.

Prior to that, on November 12, 2024, Viktor Vodolatsky, deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration and Relations with Compatriots, reported that Russophobia had strengthened among residents of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia and those who desecrate Russian monuments could not escape punishment.