{"id":31799,"date":"2017-07-27T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T06:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/?p=31799"},"modified":"2017-07-19T10:08:57","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T07:08:57","slug":"terrifying-kgb-prison-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/terrifying-kgb-prison-cells\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrifying KGB prison cells will open to the public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">P<\/span><span class=\"s1\">agari 1, in Tallinn\u2019s Old Town looks unsuspecting from the outside, but you won\u2019t believe what happened here behind closed doors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">Behind the six-paned window are 8.5 m2 cells, where interrogations took place during the Soviet period. At its worst, there were up to 18 people held in one cell, waiting to be interrogated, which generally happened overnight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">Pagari 1 was the KGB headquarters. To those who lived in Estonia during the Soviet period, this building brings back particularly gloomy memories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">Tallinn\u2019s Museum of Occupations will open the Pagari cellars to the public in mid-July.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe want to show everyone how totalitarian systems work\u201d, explains <\/span><span class=\"s2\"><b>Sander J\u00fcrisson,<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> the exhibition\u2019s manager from the Museum of Occupations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">Together with Tallinn\u2019s Patarei Prison, Pagari Street was where the horror began. Some went straight to prison from Pagari, which J\u00fcrisson referred to as a sanatorium. It goes to show the great fear people felt towards Pagari Street, as Patarei prison was no vacation either.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">Six cells and one 4 m2 Karzer room, remind us of a time that in fact, was not that long ago.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><span class=\"s4\" style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Location<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p7\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>KGB Prison Cells, <\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.ee\/maps\/place\/Pagari+1,+10133+Tallinn\/@59.4405592,24.7452342,17z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x469293639161b6a5:0x6c91f1c05b7160df!8m2!3d59.4405592!4d24.7474229?hl=et\">Pagari 1<\/a> (entrance from Pikk and Pagari intersection), Tallinn Old Town. The cellars will be opened to the public\u00a0by the end of July 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Click on the address to see the location.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p7\">TEXT SILJA HURSKAINEN, PHOTOS ANDREI CHERTKOV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pagari 1, in Tallinn\u2019s Old Town looks unsuspecting from the outside, but you won\u2019t believe what happened here behind closed &hellip; <span class=\"read-more-excerpt\">Read more<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31800,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[212,297,298],"class_list":["post-31799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-kgb","tag-prison-cells","tag-museum-of-occupations"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}