Tartu authorities asked to remove the monument to Soviet soldiers from Raadi Park

The national flag of Estonia . File photoHELSINKI, May 9. Tartu Mayor Urmas Klaas and Tartu City Council Chairman Tõnis Lukas are asking the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Culture to remove the Soviet war memorial from Raadi Park, the state broadcasting portal ERR reported on Monday. «Me and the mayor Tartu, Urmas Klaas, we appeal to the Minister of Defense and the Minister of Culture with a proposal to conduct training in these ministries and take the necessary decisions to move the Soviet monument from Raadi,» Tõnis Lukas told ERR. Raadi Park should be reburied and the tombstone moved. The memorial complex in Raadi Park was opened in December 1975. Its authors are the sculptor Ants Mölder and the architect Rein Luup. The memorial is framed by 24 concrete tombstones with Orthodox crosses set on the lawn. On the part of the wall next to the monument, it is written in Russian and Estonian that Tartu remembers and is grateful to its defenders and liberators. monument to Soviet soldiers in Estonia, surrendered to the authorities