Bronze Night

The Bronze Night (¿ Estonian: Pronksioo ), also known as the April Unrest (¿ Estonian: Aprillirahutused ) and April Events refer to the riots and controversy surrounding the 2007 relocation of the ¿ Bronze Soldier of Tallinn, the Soviet World War II memorial in Tallinn, Estonia. Many ¿ Estonians considered the Bronze Soldier in the city centre a symbol of Soviet occupation and repression. At the same time the monument has significant symbolic value to Estonia's community of mostly ethnic Russian post-World War II immigrants, symbolising not only Soviet victory over ¿ Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War, but also their claim to rights in Estonia.