Citing Mirhond in part:
3. I. personally, needn't to justify anything to anyone, (as much as you don't need to justify your compatriots honouring Estonian Waffen SS http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3585272.stm),
what Russian establishment is going to do with this - I don't know and I don't care.
The linked BBC report is from 2004. The statue was actually moved at the insistence of the Estonian government to a private location see:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_of_Lihula

When I toured Western Ukraine (after independence) a few years ago we learnt that statues were an essential sign of local history. Crossing from one town to another across a stream we came across a Stalin tank on a plinth and a communist era leaders statue - I think it was Stalin. A few miles away a new, local war memorial was inscribed for WW2 1939-1947 and our guide explained the last two years were for those who fought against Soviet rule.