People near the monument to the T-34 tank in the city of Narva. File photoHELSINKI, Aug 15At a meeting on Monday, the city assembly of the Estonian Narva postponed the decision to transfer the Soviet T-34 monument tank installed at the entrance to the city, the press service of the city assembly reported. Tank» from public urban space to closed urban space».
Another monument to soldiers of the Red Army was demolished in Poland»However, the deputy chairman of the Narva City Assembly, Natalya Umarova, said at the beginning of the meeting that she decided to postpone the issue of moving the monument to another day, since the opposition made amendments to the agenda that need to be discussed,» the report says. .According to Postimees, the opposition proposes to leave the tank monument in its historical place, provide a closed urban space around the monument and protect it from vandalism. Narva Mayor Katri Raik earlier spoke out against the transfer of the monument, stressing that the tank is part of the identity of the Russian-speaking population of Narva. Narva is the third largest city in Estonia after Tallinn and Tartu. Its population is about 60 thousand people, more than 95% of the city's residents consider Russian as their native language. In early August, Estonian Prime Minister Kaya Kallas announced that the government had decided to dismantle all Soviet monuments in the republic as soon as possible. The prime minister dwelled separately on the problem of the T-34 tank, emphasizing that if the city authorities did not intend to remove the tank on their own, then the decision to move it would be made by the state. Later, Kallas arrived in Narva to meet with the city authorities and soon announced that they had agreed to move the tank T-34 monument.
