82446928 Bronze Soldier scandal broke police
In Estonia, the police opened a criminal case in connection with damage to the information booth at the military cemetery where a monument to the Liberator Soldier (Bronze Soldier). Informs DELFI. The case was brought under the damage another's property. Guilty, according to the newspaper, faces a fine or imprisonment up to five years. The other day information stands have been damaged by unknown. According to DzD, suffered, including a plate on which a monument to the Soldier Liberator monument was described as "occupiers." "In April of 2007 … here was moved to a monument to soldiers of the Soviet army that occupied Tallinn on Sept. 22, 1944" – the inscription. This stand was bent. The word "occupied" unknown attempted to erase. Some of the damaged plate Ministry of Defence of Estonia (the agency responsible for matters related to the war graves and monuments – Note Heathcliff!) Has decided to temporarily withdraw to bring them into proper form. With regard to the stand with reference to the "occupiers," he was reported to remain in place. Booths were set Estonian Society for the Protection of ancient monuments, which cooperates with the Ministry of Defence. The scandal around the plate with a reference to "occupation" broke out in early April. Protest against the use of such language with regard to the Bronze Soldier have expressed anti-fascists. Negative reaction it has caused in Russia. In the Defense Ministry, as reported by Interfax, said that such actions of the Estonian side could be grounds for a complaint to the European Parliament and European Court of Human Rights. "We must use all possible leverage on these" comrades ", which can not be in a different name, but as the restorer of fascism," – said the head of the department to perpetuate the memory of those killed in defense of the fatherland, Alexander Kirilin. The Ministry of Defence of Estonia, in turn, replied that the text on the label is a statement of the accepted Estonia and internationally well-known historical fact. " In this case, the Office noted that the official name of the monument of the word "soldiers of the Soviet army that occupied Tallinn, they are not. Bronze Soldier – a monument to Soviet soldiers killed during the liberation of Estonia from the Nazis – formerly located on a hill Tonismagi in central Tallinn. There is also, and a mass grave of Red Army. In 2007, after numerous calls to remove the monument, coming from the nationalists, the Estonian authorities decided to move the monument and the burial at a military cemetery. Campaign to move the monument provoked riots in the Estonian capital, and some others ugih cities.
