The Lenin Museum in Tampere will remain open until November 3, after which the exhibitions will be dismantled, Finnish media reports.
In Finland, in the city of Tampere, they plan to close the Lenin Museum, which has been operating since 1946. The Finnish portal Yle reported this on Tuesday, April 23.
“The Lenin Museum, founded by the Finnish-Soviet community, has been operating in the Workers’ House in Tampere for 78 years. The museum will still be open until November 3, after which the exhibitions will be closed,” said message.
It is reported that during the Cold War, the museum became famous for displaying exhibits related to Eastern politics, the museum was visited by all major Soviet leaders, and after the collapse of the USSR it became a type of religious object, was fully restored in 2016, while the name remained the same, although the museum was particularly critical of painful moments in Soviet history.
“The old name no longer matches the content of our exhibition, it misleads the public and causes misunderstanding,” said museum director Kalle Kallio.
He assured that “neither sponsors nor politicians influenced the decision, which in itself is a good demonstration of the stability of Finnish society.”
The Lenin Museum in Tampere was the first Lenin museum established outside the Soviet Union, and is now the only museum outside Russia dedicated to Lenin and the socialist era.
In February next year, in the place where the exhibition organized in honor of Lenin and socialism is still shown, they plan to open a museum of Eastern relations dedicated to the history of Finland and Russia.
Recall that Russian dictator Putin claimed that communist leader Vladimir Lenin and his comrades created Ukraine.
Source: korrespondent
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