Tallinn Trip – Estonian History Museum (50th Anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact Badge)

And another badge, this one commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact that the USSR spent decades pretending it didn’t sign.

The text mentions the 23 August 1939, with the badge being from 50 years later, the MRP is the same in English. The rest of the text reads “International Black Ribbon Day” which is a day of remembrance for victims of totalitarian regimes. The barbed wire adds a bit more emphasis to the oppression that the people of Estonia found themselves in and the way that Europe was divided. I like little exhibits such as this, they record not just the original bad event, but also how people remembered it. Black Ribbon Day is still a day of remembrance for the evils that took place under Stalinist and Nazi regimes.