Consistency in governance is clearly a tenet City Hall subscribes to. After lambasting the state for taking matters into its own hands in the removal of the Bronze Soldier - the Soviet era statue of a Red Army infantryman erected in 1947 as a 'monument to the liberators of Tallinn' - from the centre of the city, it has now passed the buck on erecting a memorial to the victims of Communism as, it says, such things are matters of national importance. Clearly it has nothing to do with the fact that the party currently leading the city (Keskerakond, or the Centrists) has the local Russian-speaking population to thank, almost single-handedly, for its absolute majority.Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Nothing to do with us
Consistency in governance is clearly a tenet City Hall subscribes to. After lambasting the state for taking matters into its own hands in the removal of the Bronze Soldier - the Soviet era statue of a Red Army infantryman erected in 1947 as a 'monument to the liberators of Tallinn' - from the centre of the city, it has now passed the buck on erecting a memorial to the victims of Communism as, it says, such things are matters of national importance. Clearly it has nothing to do with the fact that the party currently leading the city (Keskerakond, or the Centrists) has the local Russian-speaking population to thank, almost single-handedly, for its absolute majority.
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GREAT POSTER! Not sure I understand the post. Is it that the city, when it does things to upset native Russian speakers, claims that it is not their fault? That it is the federal government?
--Andrew
Yes. When the federal government decided to remove the Bronze Soldier, City Hall criticised them, i.e. as the mouthpiece of the local Russian-speaking population, for going over the heads of the people and local government. Now that they have been asked to sanction a memorial to victims of Communism, they say this is up to the government, i.e. they don't want to sanction something which may upset the local Russian-speaking population, many of whom continue to feel that the Soviet occupation of Estonia was nothing of the sort and that Communism was a wonderful thing.
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