There are people who justify totalitarian ideologies, and claim that in fact one or the other followed noble ideals, but it has not yet been possible to embody them. However, every totalitarian ideology is inherently an enemy of freedom, and we know its price from our own historical experience. The price of our state's freedom is not an abstract figure. The loss of freedom as a result of collusion between the Nazis and the Communists cost Estonia more than one fifth of the population. The memorial was erected in the Maaryamae microdistrict, where another memorial complex is also located – to fighters for Soviet power. The obelisk on the left is dedicated to the Ice Trek. There are two complexes - the old one and the new one. A new memorial complex dedicated to those whom Estonians consider victims of the communist regime. Twenty plaques describe in detail the repression against Estonians. Here you can find out, for example, that after the seizure of the country, four of its former leaders were killed, and four more died in custody. Or that seven hundred Estonians were killed in Yekaterinburg in 1942. Or that the last political prisoners returned to Estonia only in 1989. Almost all the signs are in Russian and English, only one is in Estonian.

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