During the 60s and 70s a grandiose, sprawling World War II memorial was created in virtually every Soviet city. Tallinn’swar memorial complex is located on the coast, along thehighway that leads to Pirita Beach. The four-sided spire was put up in 1960 a...
Erected in the memory of the victims of the Soviet political repressions the memorial
sets in front of the railway station – the point of no return for thousands of Estonians
deported to Siberia. Transport costs were kept low – cattle
cars were...