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The museum was established in 1919 as Museum of the Estonian War of Independence. At the time of establishing, the Estonian War of Independence was not over (ended in 1920). [1] 1921–1940, the leader of the museum was Taavet Poska. At this time, the museum was located in Tallinn Old Town at Vene Street 5. In 1940, the museum was closed. [1]
Neutral countries with military bases established by Soviet Union in October 1939. The territory of until then independent Republic of Estonia was invaded and occupied by the Soviet Red Army on 16–17 June 1940. Mass political arrests, deportations, and executions by the Soviet regime followed. In the Summer War during the German Operation ...
Maarjamäe Memorial (Estonian: Maarjamäe memoriaal) is a memorial in Tallinn, Estonia. The memorial is located on Pirita Road between the Lasnamäe Plateau and Tallinn Bay. The memorial is dedicated to those who had fallen when defending the Soviet Union during the World War II. [1] Adjacent to the Maarjamae memorial complex is World War II ...
The Vabamu or Vabamu Museum of Occupations and Freedom ( Estonian: Okupatsioonide ja vabaduse muuseum Vabamu) in Tallinn, Estonia, is located at the corner of Toompea St. and Kaarli Blvd. It was opened on July 1, 2003, and is dedicated to the 1940-1991 period in the history of Estonia, [ 1] when the country was occupied by the Soviet Union ...
t. e. In the course of Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Germany invaded Estonia in July–December 1941, and occupied the country until 1944. Estonia had gained independence in 1918 from the then-warring German and Russian Empires. However, in the wake of the August 1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact, the Soviet Union had invaded and occupied Estonia in June 1940 ...
The Tallinn offensive (Russian: Таллинская наступательная операция) was a strategic offensive by the Red Army 's 2nd Shock and 8th armies and the Baltic Fleet against the German Army Detachment Narwa and Estonian units in mainland Estonia on the Eastern Front of World War II on 17–26 September 1944. Its German ...
The Athens Holocaust Memorial, dedicated in 2010. The Athens Holocaust Memorial, outside the archaeological site of Kerameikos (Athens) [47] Cemetery and Monument for the Victims of the Holocaust – 3rd Cemetery of Athens, Nikea (Piraeus) Monument to Young Jews (in memory of young Jews murdered in the Holocaust) – Pafos Square, Athens.
1 × 40 mm Bofors AA gun. 1 × 7.7 mm Lewis AA machine gun. 24 mines. EML Lembit is one of two Kalev -class mine-laying submarines built for the Republic of Estonia before World War II, and is now a museum ship in Tallinn. She was launched in 1936 at Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness, and served in the Estonian Navy and the Soviet Navy.