The Lithuanians have retained their Soviet war memorials, unlike the Estonians. This one, in Klaipeda, seems about half way between the one in Palanga and the one in Almaty.
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The Estonians relocated only one statue from the center of their capital (because it had become a rallying point for Soviet-nostalgic Russians) to a military cemetery. There are many more Soviet war memorials in Estonia.
I am want to be a bit brash in speech and writing. I don't mean to give the impression of something more than what is accurate.
The Estonians did indeed move the monument--from a main location to a more peripheral one, a move the Russian government called blasphemous. The Russians have signalled their on-going displeasure by not attending the reburial ceremony of the bodies exhumed in the moving of the monument.
There is significantly more tension between Russians and Estonians than Russians and Lithuanians because Lithuania has comparatively few Russians. Some think this is so because the Lithuanian resistance was so significant in the early Soviet period that Russians were less inclined to come to Lithuania.
Proofread-- I want to be correct, so I am wont to be a bit brash.
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