{"id":2363,"date":"2024-10-24T23:31:19","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T23:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/why-are-communist-era-statues-being-removed-in-ex-soviet-states-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2024-10-24T23:31:19","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T23:31:19","slug":"why-are-communist-era-statues-being-removed-in-ex-soviet-states-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/why-are-communist-era-statues-being-removed-in-ex-soviet-states-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are communist-era statues being removed in ex-Soviet states? -BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4ERvAmDb-kA?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Estonia has decided to remove some Soviet-era and Russian monuments from public places.<\/p>\n<p>The move is aimed at preventing them &#8220;from mobilising more hostility in society and tearing open old wounds&#8221; following Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine, the government said.<\/p>\n<p>An iconic T-34 tank in the city of Narva, which is Estonia&#8217;s third biggest city and borders Russia, was being taken to the Estonian War Museum. <\/p>\n<p>Similar symbolic actions are being taken by Latvia and Lithuania, the other two Baltic states.<\/p>\n<p>Please subscribe HERE http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/p>\n<p>#Estonia #Monuments #BBCNews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4ERvAmDb-kA\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Estonia has decided to remove some Soviet-era and Russian monuments from public places. The move is aimed at preventing them &#8220;from mobilising more hostility in society and tearing open old wounds&#8221; following Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine, the government said. An iconic T-34 tank in the city of Narva, which is Estonia&#8217;s third biggest city and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":2364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15,169,368],"class_list":["post-2363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-news","tag-news","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}