The Bronze Night, also known as the April Unrest and April Events, was a number of riots in Estonia surrounding the controversial 2007 relocation of the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn, a Soviet World War II memorial in Tallinn.
Protests in downtown Tallinn after police cordoned off the streets around the memorial, driving protesters toward the city centre.
Plaque on the building of Government of Estonia, Toompea, commemorating government members killed by communist terror
Police cordoning off the statue on April 26, 2007. The sign says "archeological excavation".
Burning kiosk, April 26, 2007.
Bronze Soldier of Tallinn
The Bronze Soldier is the informal name of a controversial Soviet World War II war memorial in Tallinn, Estonia, built at the site of several war graves, which were relocated to the nearby Tallinn Military Cemetery in 2007. It was originally named "Monument to the Liberators of Tallinn", was later titled to its current official name "Monument to the Fallen in the Second World War", and is sometimes called Alyosha, or Tõnismäe monument after its old location. The memorial was unveiled on 22 September 1947, three years after the Red Army reached Tallinn on 22 September 1944 during World War II.
The Bronze Soldier of Tallinn monument, vandalized in protest of the Russian attack on Ukraine, 12 April 2022.
Flowers on the old site of the monument 9 May 2008
