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9 December 2025

TALLINN, ESTONIA – DECEMBER 8: A monument to Joseph Stalin, former Soviet dictator, originally installed in 1950 in Tallinn and removed in 1960, is displayed at the 'Soviet Statue Graveyard' outside Maarjamäe Palace as part of a collection of communist-era monuments reflecting Estonia’s Soviet past, in Tallinn, Estonia, on December 8, 2025.

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9 December 2025

TALLINN, ESTONIA – DECEMBER 8: A monument to Joseph Stalin, former Soviet dictator, originally installed in 1950 in Tallinn and removed in 1960, is displayed at the 'Soviet Statue Graveyard' outside Maarjamäe Palace as part of a collection of communist-era monuments reflecting Estonia’s Soviet past, in Tallinn, Estonia, on December 8, 2025.

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9 December 2025

TALLINN, ESTONIA – DECEMBER 8: A monument to Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union, originally installed in 1952 in Tartu and removed in 1990, is displayed at the 'Soviet Statue Graveyard' outside Maarjamae Palace in Tallinn, Estonia, as part of a collection of communist-era monuments reflecting Estonia’s Soviet past, in Tallinn, Estonia, on December 8, 2025.

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9 December 2025

TALLINN, ESTONIA – DECEMBER 8: A damaged monument to former Soviet head of state Mikhail Kalinin, originally installed in 1950 in Tallinn and removed in 1991 after Estonia regained independence, is displayed at the 'Soviet Statue Graveyard' outside Maarjamae Palace in Tallinn, Estonia, on December 8, 2025.

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9 December 2025

TALLINN, ESTONIA – DECEMBER 8: A monument to Jakob Palvadre, a Red Army division commander, originally erected in 1981 in Valga and removed in 1991, is displayed at the 'Soviet Statue Graveyard' outside Maarjamäe Palace as part of a collection of communist-era monuments reflecting Estonia’s Soviet past, in Tallinn, Estonia, on December 8, 2025.

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9 December 2025

TALLINN, ESTONIA – DECEMBER 8: A monument to Jakob Palvadre, a Red Army division commander, originally erected in 1981 in Valga and removed in 1991, is displayed at the 'Soviet Statue Graveyard' outside Maarjamäe Palace as part of a collection of communist-era monuments reflecting Estonia’s Soviet past, in Tallinn, Estonia, on December 8, 2025.

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#13075297

9 December 2025

TALLINN, ESTONIA – DECEMBER 8: A portrait-monument to Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union, originally installed in 1981 in Parnu and removed in 1990, is displayed at the 'Soviet Statue Graveyard' outside Maarjamae Palace in Tallinn, Estonia, as part of a collection of communist-era monuments reflecting Estonia’s Soviet past, in Tallinn, Estonia, on December 8, 2025.

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9 December 2025

TALLINN, ESTONIA – DECEMBER 8: A 1948 memorial monument honoring Soviet soldiers and local fighters, originally unveiled in Viljandi and removed in 1991 after Estonia regained independence, is on display at the 'Soviet Statue Graveyard' outside Maarjamäe Palace in in Tallinn, Estonia, on December 8, 2025.

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9 December 2025

TALLINN, ESTONIA – DECEMBER 8: A monument to Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union, originally installed in 1952 in Tartu and removed in 1990, is displayed at the 'Soviet Statue Graveyard' outside Maarjamae Palace in Tallinn, Estonia, as part of a collection of communist-era monuments reflecting Estonia’s Soviet past, in Tallinn, Estonia, on December 8, 2025.

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6 December 2025

A kinetic metal wind chime sculpture is mounted in an arched passageway leading out to Marienplatz, offering a view of the Old Town Hall Tower and the twin domes of the Frauenkirche. This scene is located in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, on December 5, 2025. This passage is part of the Old Town Hall complex, where the Munich Toy Museum (Spielzeugmuseum) is housed in the tower.

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6 December 2025

A kinetic metal wind chime sculpture is mounted in an arched passageway leading out to Marienplatz, offering a view of the Old Town Hall Tower and the twin domes of the Frauenkirche. This scene is located in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, on December 5, 2025. This passage is part of the Old Town Hall complex, where the Munich Toy Museum (Spielzeugmuseum) is housed in the tower.

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6 December 2025

A kinetic metal wind chime sculpture is mounted in an arched passageway leading out to Marienplatz, offering a view of the Old Town Hall Tower and the twin domes of the Frauenkirche. This scene is located in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, on December 5, 2025. This passage is part of the Old Town Hall complex, where the Munich Toy Museum (Spielzeugmuseum) is housed in the tower.

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4 December 2025

Visitors view Crimean gold from the Treasury of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine, including 1st-century AD earrings, torcs, bracelets, wreaths, pendants, medallions, and rings, as part of the collection Ukraine fights nearly a decade to reclaim from Russia in Dutch courts at the interactive ''Ukraine WAW'' exhibition in Kyiv, Ukraine, on December 3, 2025.

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4 December 2025

Visitors view Crimean gold from the Treasury of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine, including 1st-century AD earrings, torcs, bracelets, wreaths, pendants, medallions, and rings, as part of the collection Ukraine fights nearly a decade to reclaim from Russia in Dutch courts at the interactive ''Ukraine WAW'' exhibition in Kyiv, Ukraine, on December 3, 2025.

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4 December 2025

Visitors view Crimean gold from the Treasury of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine, including 1st-century AD earrings, torcs, bracelets, wreaths, pendants, medallions, and rings, as part of the collection Ukraine fights nearly a decade to reclaim from Russia in Dutch courts at the interactive ''Ukraine WAW'' exhibition in Kyiv, Ukraine, on December 3, 2025.

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4 December 2025

Artist Toni Potehi Harsono performs a ''wayang potehi'' Chinese puppet presentation during the India-Indonesia Colloquium on Oral Traditions and Cultural Memory at Netaji Bhawan in Kolkata, India, on December 4, 2025.

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