The bronze soldier statue was not sent to a dump but was instead relocated to Tallinn Military cemetery.
A Treasury Department adviser who returned after several years in Estonia, reported that there are no serious ethnic conflicts in Estonia.
The statue was a prominent landmark in Tallinn. The Russians considered the move a downgrade and there was unrest. There wasn’t any conflict in Crimea until a couple weeks ago, btw.
Don’t confuse Tallinn with a backwater like Narva. You might as well be in Pskov there. It’s basically Russia there and ripe to be manipulated by Putin.
Don’t confuse Tallinn with a backwater like Narva. You might as well be in Pskov there. It’s basically Russia there and ripe to be manipulated by Putin.
The few Russians who live and work in Tallinn speak Estonian at work.
The information I have from an adviser to Estonia, who spent years there, is that the Russians in eastern Estonia are very satisfied living there - unlike the Russians in Crimea. Disturbances did occur in Tallinn when the statue was moved. However, there were none in Narva.