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TALLINN, May 23 (Itar-Tass) -- Estonian radical nationalist Yuri Lijm, who had been fined for threats to explode the monument to Soviet World War Two Liberator Soldier in Tallinn, displayed “private initiative” and dismantled two other Soviet monuments in the capital city.

He hired a crane and drove the monuments to city suburbs. Police are investigating the incident on theft charges.

One of the monuments commemorated cadets of the Tallinn military school and stood on the territory of the military barracks where the regiment of legendary Soviet Hero Alexander Matrosov was deployed after the war.

The second monument commemorated one of the founders of the Estonian Communist party Hans Pegelman, who fell victim to Stalinist repressions in 1938. It stood on the territory of the business center of the electric and mechanical plant named after Pegelman.

Lijm is known as the organizer of provocations at the Soviet Liberator Soldier monument in Tallinn in 2006. He publicly threatened to explode it if the monument is not pulled down. Lijm, who has been decorated with state awards as a “liberation fighter”, was fined, but appealed to a higher court. The monument was later removed to the outskirts of Tallinn causing mass protests of the Russian-speaking population in Estonia and indignation in Moscow.

Another wave of indignation in Moscow has been recently caused by a trial of Arnold Meri, the last Hero of the Soviet Union in Estonia. Elderly Meri is charged with genocide over deportations to Siberia in 1949. The trial began on May 20. Meri, 88, pleaded non-guilty, but if convicted, he may be sentenced to life.

On Friday the Russian State Duma is likely to ask the OSCE and the Council of Europe to denounce the trial.

“Lawmakers will draw the attention of European parliamentarians to the attempts of Estonian authorities to revise the results of the Second World War and the Nuremberg tribunal,” said State Duma speaker Boris Gryzlov.

Head of the Duma veterans committee Nikolai Kovalev said “the trial of Meri in Estonia is a logical continuation of the official policy of the Baltic Republic to eliminate at the state level the very memory of the lessons of the Second World War. I believe time has come to oppose such a policy. Not only Russia should occupy a tough stance, but veteran organizations of the whole world should condemn Estonia.”

Kovalev believes Estonia has no right to be called a European state after it several times publicly outraged pan-European values.