Pronksöö (The Bronze Night)

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The Bronze Night (Estonian: Pronksiöö), also known as the April Unrest and April Events refer to the riots and controversy surrounding the 2007 relocation of the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn, the Soviet World War II memorial in Tallinn, Estonia.
Many Estonians considered the Bronze Soldier in the city centre a symbol of Soviet occupation and repression. At the same time the monument has significant symbolic value to Estonia’s community of mostly ethnic Russian post-World War II immigrants, symbolising not only Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War, but also their claim to rights in Estonia.
Amid political controversy, in April 2007 the Government of Estonia started final preparations for the reburial of the remains and relocation of the statue, according to the political mandate received from the last elections (held in March 2007). Disagreement over the appropriateness of the action led to mass protests and riots (accompanied by looting), lasting for two nights, the worst Estonia has seen since the Soviet reoccupation in 1944, which included the still unsolved murder of one Russian. In the early morning hours of April 27, 2007, after the first night’s rioting, the Government of Estonia decided, at an emergency meeting, to relocate the monument immediately, referring to security concerns. By the following afternoon the stone structure had been dismantled as well. As of the afternoon of April 30, the statue without the stone structure had been placed at the Cemetery of the Estonian Defence Forces in Tallinn. An opening ceremony for the relocated statue was held on May 8, VE Day. (Soviet Army veterans celebrate Victory Day a day later, on May 9.) During June 2007 the stone structure was rebuilt. Relatives have made claims to bodies of four of the war dead. Unclaimed remains were reburied at the military cemetery, next to the relocated monument, on July 3, 2007

Põlevad piirid ( The Burning Borders)

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The film is introduced by Jossif Stalin’s “performance” at the Tallinn Lauluväljak, where the dictator assured that if there hadn’d been his employee Molotov’s agreement with Ribbentrop then Estonia’s independance wouldn’t have been possible. To better understand what Stalin meant we take a look at how 2 documents – Treaty of Tartu and Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact – affected the Estonian people and Republic in the previous, and current, century…