In Estonia intend to restore the Lihula monument to Estonians, who fought in the Second World War for the Nazis. This initiative was made of the Estonian branch of the conservative People's Party (TO), According to Estonian edition Delfi.
AT 2004 year in Lihula was a monument to the soldiers of the 20th Estonian SS Division, which after a while was demolished. Across 14 s on-site installation of the first monument EKRE intends to conduct a ceremony called “Memorial Day monument in Lihula”, where the organizers will “sing close to them in spirit and patriotic songs”. On the site of the demolished monument will install a temporary monument, exactly copying demolished. The event was expected to address veterans of the 20th SS Division, former mayor Lihula parish and party members.
As stated in the EKRE, Monument is needed in order, to honor the memory of the people, defending Estonia in August 1944 year from “Bolshevik invasion of the Red Army”.
The story of the monument to the soldiers of the 20th Estonian SS Division began in 2002 year, when this memorial plaque with bas-relief of a soldier of the Wehrmacht in the form of an iron cross on his chest and toward the east “Schmeiser” in his hands it was installed in one of the parks in the resort town of Pärnu. then, 2004 he was transferred to the town of Lihula in western Estonia, but after standing for a few days, It was demolished, since its installation could be interpreted as an attempt to “an attempt to perpetuate the memory of totalitarian occupation regimes”.
