Johannes Raudmets monument. The soviet hero Johannes Raudmets (1892/94 - 1937) was a commandant of the red army and one lider of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Shenkursk" class="extiw" title="en:Battle of Shenkursk">Battle of Shenkursk</a> in 1919. The monument was removed from its original place in a public park in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paide" class="extiw" title="en:Paide">Paide</a> in February 2007 and was brough to the backyard of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_History_Museum" class="extiw" title="en:Estonian History Museum">Estonian History Museum</a> at the Maarjamaë Palace, which has become a graveyard for old soviet statues which were too big or just not interessting enough to be displaied at the Occupations Museum in the center of Tallinn. Most of the forgotten soviet statues have been vandalized and are brocken with missing parts. Like the Johannes Raudmets monument, the rest of the soviet monuments lie down on the grass, gathering moss and getting slowly roasted or fractured. Only a 4 meter high statue of Lenin is still standing, looking at the pile formed by the rest of damaged soviet statues.
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