Ageeda Paavel (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ageeda Paavel (sometimes cited as Ageeda-Andrea Paavel) (born August 15, 1930) is an Estonian patriot who on the night of May 8, 1946, together with her school friend Aili Jurgenson, blew up a Soviet grave monument (a wooden memorial topped with a star): the preceding monument to the Bronze Soldier in Tallinn. After the conquest of Estonia in 1944, the Soviet occupation authorities began systematically destroying the war memorials to the fallen in the Estonian War of Independence, which had survived the war. On 15 April 1945 a monument by Amandus Adamson, erected to 87 persons who had fallen in the Estonian War of Independence, was blown up in Parnu with explosives. Also between 1944 to 1946 the gravestones of the Tallinn Military Cemetery were destroyed by the Soviet authorities and the Estonian graveyard was reused by Red Army.