The Russian Embassy in Finland has demanded that the Finnish authorities punish those responsible for desecration of the mass grave of Soviet soldiers in Kivikko, and they are restoring the monument on their own. This was reported in the diplomatic department. DEA News.
According to the information given by the embassy, the police were called to the scene and a statement was given about the incident. A protest note was sent to the Finnish Foreign Ministry demanding action.
It was previously reported that the last monument to Vladimir Lenin in Finland was made by Estonian sculptor Matti Varik. ripped off In the city of Kotka and the region where they will determine their future fate, they were sent to the warehouse of the Kymenlaakso museum.
Kotka city council decided to remove the monument in the summer of 2022.
The statue was placed in the city center in 1979 as a gift from then-Soviet Tallinn, Kotka’s sister city. The place where it would be placed was chosen one of the squares not far from the buildings where Lenin stayed during his stay in Kotka in 1907.