Even though I never made it to the original Lenin Museum in Tampere (wish I had), over the years I’ve heard plenty about the place. Following a major facelift the museum reopened recently. Renamed ‘Nootti’ – Finnish for a diplomatic note – the refashioned exhibits are said to reflect the seachange in relations between neghbours Finland and the Soviet Union that developed in the wake of Russia’s February 2022 all-out invasion of Ukraine. A recent piece by The Guardian’s Nordic correspondent notes that when the original museum first opened in 1946, it was intended to serve as symbol of… More
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