 Members of the council expressed hope, however, that the statues would end up in a museum where they can be preserved and presented in the appropriate context.In August 2016, a Lithuanian official sharply criticized a newly issued Russian commemorative coin depicting one of the banished statues – "Guarding Peace" – in connection with the Soviet liberation of Vilnius in 1944.Rolandas Kacinskas, director of the Foreign Ministry's Political Department, said