You won't get to socialism in this wooden train
The Foundation Pit. Andrei Platonov
The Ginkgo specimen on Suda Street became the cause of a long-term confrontation between society and the main department of architecture and planning of Soviet Estonia in the 1980s, when it was decided to connect the then Lenin Avenue with one of the central streets of the city and build an opera theater on the territory of the former garden.
The conflict resulted in the term "Ginkgo Tree Syndrome", which in Estonia is used to describe any incident involving the polarization of society, when something important is hindered by something insignificant.
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