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English: Decapitated monument of a soviet soldier (Yevgeny Nikonov) holding binoculars with one hand and a rifle with the other. The vandalized monument lies at the backyard of the Estonian History Museum at the Maarjamaë Palace, which has become a graveyard for old soviet statues which were too big or just not interesting enough to be displayed at the Occupations Museum in the center of Tallinn. Most of the forgotten soviet statues have been partially destroyed and are broken with missing parts. Like the decapited monument of the soldier, the rest of the soviet monuments lie also down on the grass, gathering moss and getting slowly roasted or fractured. Only a 4 meter high statue of Lenin is still standing, looking at the pile formed by the rest of damaged soviet statues.
Deutsch: Enthauptetes sowjetisches Denkmal von einem Soldaten, der ein Fernglas und ein Gewehr in seinen Händen hält. Das zerstörte Denkmal befindet sich im Hinterhof des Schlosses Maarjamäe, in dem sich heute das moderne Estnische Geschichtsmuseum (Eesti Ajaloomuuseum) von Tallinn befindet. Der Hinterhof gilt heute als Friedhof für alte sowjetischen Denkmale, die in dem Museum der Besetzung und des Kampfes um Freiheit (Toompea 8, Tallinn) nicht passten. Die meisten sowjetischen Statuen, die damals Parks und Straßen von Estland schmückten, gerieten in Vergessenheit und wurden durch Vandalismus beschädigt und zerbrochen. Die auf dem Gras liegenden Statuen werden langsam von Moos bedeckt, rosten allmählich oder zerbrechen. Nur die 4 Meter hohe Statue von Lenin stand im Jahre 2011 noch und blickte den Haufen der übrigen beschädigten alten sowjetischen Statuen an.
Français : Statue décapitée d'un soldat soviétique, qui tient des jumelles et un fusil dans ses mains. La statue se trouve à l'arrière-cour du Palais de Maarjamaë, qui ajourd'hui est le siège du Musée d'Histoire de l'Estonie (Eesti Ajaloomuuseum). L'arrière-cour du palais est devenue un cimetière pour les statues soviétiques qui étaient trop grandes ou pas assez interessant pour être affichées au Musée de l'Occupation de Tallinn, au centre de la ville. La plupart des statues soviétiques, qui avant adornaient les parcs et rues d'Estonie, ont été ajourd'hui oubliées et vandalisées, elles sont cassées et avec des parties qui manquent. Les statues, allongées sur l'herbe, rassemblent de la mousse et devient lentement rouillées et avec des fisures. Seulement une statue de Lenin, environ 4 mètre haut, se tenait debout en 2011, tout en regardand la pile formé pour d'autres statues soviétiques endommagées.
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