Ageeda Paavel (sometimes cited as Ageeda-Andrea Paavel) (born August 15, 1930) is an Estonian nationalist who on the night of May 8, 1946, together with her school friend Aili Jürgenson, blew up a Soviet grave monument (a wooden memorial topped with a star): the preceding monument to the Bronze Soldier in Tallinn. August 15 is the 227th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (228th in leap years), with 138 days remaining. ... 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link is to a full 1930 calendar). ... May 8 is the 128th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (129th in leap years). ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Aili Jõgi (born Aili Jürgenson on May 25, 1931) is an Estonian nationalist who on May 8, 1946, together with her school friend Ageeda Paavel, blew up a Soviet grave monument (a wooden memorial topped with a star): the preceding monument to the Bronze Soldier in Tallinn. ... Soviet redirects here. ... County Harju County Mayor Jüri Ratas Area 159. ...

Ageeda Paavel describes the events as follows:

"Our beloved monuments started to disappear one after another. They had to be paid back somehow and the so-called Liberators’ Monument on Tõnismägi was picked. It was situated in the square of the current bronze man on the side facing the church. It was about a meter high wooden pyramid, which was only about 20 centimetres in diameter; it was of a plain blue colour and its top was decorated by a red tin pentagon. /.../ Juhan [Juhan Kuusk] gave us the explosives and instructions. There was nothing really difficult about it. The important thing was that the fuse had to be long enough to give us a safe distance for running away. It was. We put in place the materials for the blast with Aili; we had no supporters. The fact that a militia officer who was on duty was flirting with a girl at a distance and did not notice us made it easier for us. Although this girl did not belong to our group, she was also later arrested."

Naturally, the newspapers of that time did not report about the demolition and the local auhtorities managed to quickly restore the monument before Victory Day, but the majority of the inhabitants of the capital were aware of the incident. The initiative of the girls was followed and similar monuments were also demolished in Rakvere and Tartu. County Lääne-Viru County Mayor Andres Jaadla Area 10. ... County Tartu County Mayor Laine Jänes Area 38. ...

In February 1998, Paavel and her friend Jõgi (Jürgenson) were awarded the Estonian Order of the Cross of the Eagle for their fight against communism ("Freedom fighter of military merit") by the Estonian President Lennart Meri. Aili Jõgi and Ageeda Paavel are the only women awarded the Order of the Cross of the Eagle. 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean [1]. // Coated in ice, power and telephone lines sag and often break, resulting in power outages. ... The Order of the Cross of the Eagle (Kotkaristi Teenetemärk, in Estonian, LOrdre De La Croix De LAigle, in France) was instituted in 1928 by the National Defence League to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Estonian independence. ... Communism is an ideology that seeks to establish a classless, stateless social organization based on common ownership of the means of production. ... The President of Estonia is the head of state of the Republic of Estonia. ... Lennart Meri Lennart Georg Meri (IPA: ˈlennÉ‘r̺t ˈgÌ¥eÉ”rgÌ¥ ˈmer̺i) (March 29, 1929 – March 14, 2006) was a writer, film director and politician who served as President of Estonia from 1992 to 2001. ...

References

• Common grave for and a memorial to Red Army soldiers on Tõnismägi, Tallinn
• Decorations of the Republic of Estonia. Awarded in 1995-1998
• Hon sprängde bronsstatyns föregångare Dagens Nyheter, May 13, 2007.
• An interview with Aili Jõgi (Partial translation to English)