Being the reminder of the World War I, the resistance memorial was created out of the initiative of the citizens Josef Chramosta and Josef Jaroslav Filipi. In order to implement their idea, they won favour of the world-known architect and Rodinʼs scholar, Josef Mařatka. This artist succeeded not only in creating a spacous work of art, but also in endowing the statue of the French drumming legionary with a timeless symbolism. The legionary heads towards the north, because the enemy would approach Bohemia from Lower and Upper Silesia. He summons the Czechs to strike back in the sense of the motto “Now or neverˮ. It ought to be mentioned that the lateral side of the base contains the soil from Zborov. After the fall of the 2nd republic on 15 March 1939, Ústí was occupied by the Nazis who gave order to remove this symbol of the legionary tradition. The workers deconstructed the statue with utmost care and stored it in the paling of the Radechovský company, where the statue survived the war to be renewed in 1945. Few years later, the front side of the base was supplemented with a memorial plaque conveying the names of the World War II casualties.