TALLINN, Dec 10, BNS – The Estonian Reserve Officers Association is planning to put up a nearly five meter glass monument in front of the building of the Foreign Ministry in Tallinn by Aug. 23 next year to symbolize Estonians‘ resistance.
The winning design of the structure to be installed in the place where a statue of Lenin used to stand in front of the headquarters of the local branch of the Communist Party in the years of Soviet occupation was chosen back in May 2006, the daily Postimees reported.
Putting up of the monument had been delayed due to technical reasons, that is, finding the best way how to bring electricity to the site, Eerik-Niiles Kross, member of the Estonian Reserve Officers Association, told the daily Postimees.
The monument was initially planned to be erected by the end of 2006.
“When at some point the program of events of the 90th anniversary [of the Republic of Estonia] started to be put together, it looked reasonable to combine the unveiling of the monument with the anniversary program,” Kross said.
According to the design by Kuulo Vahter, Ivo Lill and Ain Roopson, the monument standing on a base of black granite on a green area between two traffic lanes of Ravala Street would depict a broken glass wall made of numerous two-centimeter-thick glass panes glued together.
It is planned to put copies of documents that shaped Estonia‘s history, photos and posters characteristic of various periods of history between the glass panes.
As the authors have said, the breaking of light and play of colors in the glass reflects the many-colored fates of people and the tragic of human fates in the years of occupation, frozen in an ice-like wall through which one has been able to break to freedom.
The planned opening date, Aug. 23, is the anniversary of the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact that sealed the fate of eastern Europe for half a century and also of the first major public meeting in Tallinn against Moscow’s rule.
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