Vabaduse valjak: the mistery beneath your feet
By Giovanni Angioni on Monday, June 30 2008, 14:57 - Daily Tallinn - Permalink
New pipes, steetworks and Freedom monument made Vabaduse Valjak a big, dusty hole surrounded by crazy drivers always more frustrated because of the traffic. And this is not all. Because there is something else you do not know...
Friday the 27th, lunchtime.
On the corner between Roosiktantsi and Vabaduse valjak, five steps from the Russian theater and two from the Tallinn City Hall, right under the eyes of the major Edgar Savisaar, the workers just stopped digging.
Eyes and mouths wide opened, someone is bringing a strange surprise out from the small 2 meters-deep hole: two skulls.
Two human heads buried no-one-knows-when-nor-why under the pavement of one the most important roads of the city, right where thousands of cars move their weels every day.
As you can see on the pics, someone immediately tried to hide everything putting the two skulls into some black plastic bags, but we have been there since the beginning and we know what is hidden inside there.
First it has been in front of café Moskva, where the works revealed the remains of an old part of the town, and now it has been the turn of the other side of the squares with the heads of two unknown people we would somehow like to know why have been there for ages.
Will someone ever consider stopping the machines and giving some explanations to the people about this strange, unusual and unknown part of Tallinian history?
On the corner between Roosiktantsi and Vabaduse valjak, five steps from the Russian theater and two from the Tallinn City Hall, right under the eyes of the major Edgar Savisaar, the workers just stopped digging.
Eyes and mouths wide opened, someone is bringing a strange surprise out from the small 2 meters-deep hole: two skulls.
Two human heads buried no-one-knows-when-nor-why under the pavement of one the most important roads of the city, right where thousands of cars move their weels every day.
As you can see on the pics, someone immediately tried to hide everything putting the two skulls into some black plastic bags, but we have been there since the beginning and we know what is hidden inside there.
First it has been in front of café Moskva, where the works revealed the remains of an old part of the town, and now it has been the turn of the other side of the squares with the heads of two unknown people we would somehow like to know why have been there for ages.
Will someone ever consider stopping the machines and giving some explanations to the people about this strange, unusual and unknown part of Tallinian history?
Giovanni Angioni
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Comments
You should make publicity to some cultural events and not to beer festival (Ollesummer, "òlle" = beer).
Alcoholism is a great problem in European Union and the very hard problem in Estonia. This festival is not "the biggest event" of estonian summer, but an occasion to sale a beer for beer producer. Estonian low doesn't protect young people and children against harmful publicity of beer and another alcohol drinks.
There are a lot of interest cultural events in Estonia, the beer festival is the worst and absolutely without cultural value.
Helga Nukk
http://helganukk.blogspot.com
Dear Giovanni,
It would be interesting for readers of Your blog to know that the future statue is like a nazism svastika.
Have You seen some photoes of statue project?
Do You know that the people signed the petition against this svastika-like statue and the government doesn't pay attention to people's will?
Do You know that the "Bronze soldier" statue was/is an unique antifascist monument in Tallinn?
Do You know that the estonian government have refused referendum related of removing of antifascist monument (Bronze statue) and building af new svastika-like monument ?
More, to defend the future svastika-like statue against estonian people the government will pay special service, because for real estonians the svastika-like cross signify death and occupation, from ancient times the german cross remembers to estonians the slavery and occupation too...
The mortal remains are of the russian soldiers (the journals have published the exact information).
Best regards,
Helga Nukk
helga.nukk@gmail.com
I am personally sorry that someone is taking the small advertising about OlleSummerFestival as any kind of irresponsible publicity to drinking habits or alcohol in general.
I agree with Helga that alcohol is an immense problem up here, as for young people as for elder one but, something in which I deeply disagree, is the reduction of OLS to a festival without any cultural value.
As every year, even 2008 will see thousands and thousands of people walking around Lauluvaljak stage enjoying tipical food and dancing till the morning to concerts where musicians coming from Estonia as many other countries.
And, sincerely, it is enough, in my opinion, to make OLS festival worth of been published in this page as one of the most important public event happening in Estonia during the summer.
I have seen what someone reported about the discover in Vabaduse valjak and I partially agree with you when you say that they reported the exact info...as because I had the chance to follow everything personally - my office windows are right up there - as because, even yesterday, many experts from the competent institutions did not know anything about that.
Let's say: if you start digging, find something, hide it in 10 minutes and then restart working...no one will know anything and no one will complain.
Anyways.
About the antifascist monuments...it all depends on what you consider as monument.
The Russian culture centre is still there with all the symbols it has inside as many other buildings in Tallinn.
And this is only regarding the aestetic.
Because, if we consider the meaning that statue carried on...well...it still has it all as the monument has NOT been destroied but just relocated.
Ihave personally criticized the government choice but that is only my particular opinion and nothing else.
About the new one, then, I was supposed to have an interview this week about that but, unfortunately I missed it.
But it will come soon anyway.
So, soon, I will be able to widely talk about it.
By now, as usual, i can just give you my personal opinion.
And I really do not like anything about that project.
Best,
Giovanni Angioni
About the statue.
Maybe I only represent the younger part of Estonians, but I think this symbolism is just an excuse to whip up some action -- nationalism on both sides. Can't a country be just an institution to allow economic activity in a certain way and have a social system to educate, cure and support people?
I don't actually care for any kind of statues, to make, relocate or to destroy; be it in any kind of form, svastika or a hammer and the other thing on the former soviet flag or whatever else... whatever you like, go ahead and build!
But what I *do* care about is where it's built and who is paying for it. If someone builds it on his/her own land with his/her own money -- so be it, with any kind of symbols... It's your own. And have gatherings around the statue on a certain date! But as long as you don't start breaking stuff, or beating people up.
But right now, building statues makes me not want to pay taxes and makes me pissed of about the government, people supporting the building and people against the building on symbolic bases.
How to you feel about these issues?