Behind the history museum at Maarjamäe, in the open air, lies a collection of Soviet statues taken down from squares and institutions across Estonia: Lenins, Stalins, generic workers and soldiers, several of each, standing and lying in rows on the grass.
Estonia chose neither to keep them in place nor to destroy them. Assembled like this, stripped of the plinths and the settings that gave them authority, they stop being monuments and become objects — and the repetition is the point. You can see immediately how few designs were used, and how many times each one was cast.