Tallinn Trip – The Memorial to the Victims of Communism (Maarjamäe Memorial Complex)

I’ve already mentioned the Soviet War Memorial at this site and this memorial is a quite marvellous juxtaposition to it. It was opened in 2018 and it is a memorial to the 22,000 people murdered by the Soviets, a reminder of the oppression that the people of Estonia faced.

This is a monument which is making a proper statement, it’s a clever and powerful design.

The crimes against humanity will never be forgotten.

The names seem endless.

I was making my way down the tunnel thinking how fortunate we were to see this monument, it had been somewhat by chance and we hadn’t headed this way deliberately.

And then Susanna and Bev bumped into this lady, who lost her father and brother-in-law to the Soviets. Emotional and bringing home the reality of Soviet rule.

The memorial also has a web-site at https://www.memoriaal.ee/en/memorial/.