In Finland, a court overturned the decision of the Turku mayor's office to demolish a monument to Lenin

The administrative court of the Finnish city of Turku overturned the decision of Mayor Minna Arve to demolish the monument to Vladimir Lenin erected in 1977. According to the court's decision, the mayor's office exceeded its authority when it decided last April to dismantle the monument and plaque on a nearby building, allegedly due to "ideological inconsistency with the value base and negative reactions" of citizens. The decision taken by the mayor of the Finnish city was annulled. A private individual got the decision to demolish the monument overturned.

The bronze bust of Lenin by Soviet sculptor Mikhail Anikushin was given to the Finnish city as a gift from Leningrad, which has been Turku's sister city since 1953. The monument was accompanied by a memorial plaque made by a Finnish master with information about Lenin’s stay in Turku in 1907.

According to the mayor of Turku, the monument to Lenin evoked strong negative emotions in society. In addition, the Turku City Hall mentioned the second Lenin monument in Finland, which is located in the city of Kotka, but the Kotka authorities did not make a decision to dismantle the monument. After the Lenin monument was dismantled in Turku, the statue was sent for storage to the storerooms of the local museum.

In addition to dismantling the monument, Turku officially suspended sister city relations with St. Petersburg. The Russian Consulate General in the city has also been closed, and local authorities are planning to demolish the building, occupied by Soviet and Russian diplomats since 1976.

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[Dedok]

The administrative court of the Finnish city of Turku overturned the mayor's decision Minna Arve about the demolition of the monument to Vladimir Lenin erected in 1977.

"...oh times, oh morals..."
Wherever you spit, you’ll end up in the “woman’s”, but where do so many obsequious and headless people come from?

[knn54]

Sergey, if you’re not a “woman”, you want to spit.

[Andrey Moskvin]

What other value base?! This is not some Mannerheim, but one of the greatest personalities of humanity. It would be better to be proud. Ugh.

[hazarn]

Quote: Andrey Moskvin

What other value base?! This is not some Mannerheim

A strange act of demolishing the bust - this Lenin did more for the independence of Finland than Mannerheim - with the help of his coup, the Finns gained independence, and in 1920. Lenin signed one of the first international treaties in the RSFSR recognizing the independence and borders of Finland - he also refused to pay the tsarist debts and stated that Soviet Russia was not the legal successor of tsarist Russia, and so on. It's surprising that this character doesn't stand next to the Mannerheim monument..

[Michael]

They are afraid, that’s why they dismantle it.

[faiver]

To be honest, I don’t really care about the bust of Lenin in Turku and in Kotka too, it’s not convenient at all...
But taking into account the fact that the Finns received statehood from Lenin, if I were in their place, I would be careful not to touch his monuments...., NATO is not a panacea....

[terms]

NATO is not only not a panacea for them, but also a lot of unnecessary expenses, and absolutely without any economic return =)))

[igorbrsv]

But they become quite a legitimate target

[StaryDon]

Of course it was cancelled. The whole world bows at the feet of this ghoul. Ruined the country! May the devils set him on fire!

[Sergey3]

Of course it was cancelled. The whole world bows at the feet of this ghoul. Ruined the country! May the devils set him on fire!

One must love and respect one’s homeland, and not invent fairy-tale “ghouls.” The concept of Motherland and history are inseparable. If a person hates a historical figure, then he hates his Motherland, and this is a dead-end path of self-destruction and self-deception. You will never be able to develop further if you are stuck in hatred of an individual from a history textbook of years gone by!

[igorbrsv]

. Ruined the country

Are you sure that if it weren’t for Lenin, you would exist now? I'm not. I received my education from the Soviet government. I know that we endured and won the Second World War. I have shelter now, I'm not hungry. The past cannot be undone. It is impossible to predict the future.
We need to remember. Avoid mistakes. Strives for better

[Alexander Petrovich]

If anyone ruined the country, it was the aristocracy, who did not want to free the peasants from slavery for a century, and the kings who indulged them, your liberals, unanimously supported by all the spiritually strong relatives of the Tsar, Father Nicholas II, finished off. And you still see Lenin everywhere, this man helped our country survive and break away from the most progressive and best state in the history of mankind, we should not bow to him like kings, but follow his precepts “learn to learn and learn again” so as not to be be a fool and don't talk nonsense.

[Aerolab]

The Finns seem to be good warriors, but they are fighting against monuments. Idiots. It would be better if they remembered who gave them independence. And how much vodka they consumed, almost for free, in the USSR.

[alystan]

A private individual got the decision to demolish the monument overturned.

I wonder if it was not a Finnish citizen who achieved this?
Why immediately smear all Finns with shit?

[igorbrsv]

I achieved this how. Asked, won, pressed for pity?

[Got it]

Well, we can also say that they disgraced us...they just acted differently - they depersonalized them, took down the signs and that’s it! There are monuments, but who the uncle is is unknown. The mausoleum is bashfully draped. And we also criticize dates..?

[Piramidon]

Quote: Oldi

Well, we can also say that we got screwed...

I don’t know where it is. In our two cities, where I lived and often visit, the monuments in the city center stood and still stand, with all the inscriptions

[Cypa]

Now Lenin gives them no rest.

[ALCA056000]

And then the hot Finnish guys (girls) began to catch up - “what if this is... that... then we can get away with it, we didn’t demolish the monument, we’re good...”

[Cucumbers]

If the Finns hate Lenin because he gave them freedom, then this means that they want to go back to Russia

[Mikhail Dadeko]

Here are the “stupid people”, they forgot that thanks to Ilyich and other comrades, Finland gained independence from the Russian Empire!

[Pravodel]

The administrative court of the Finnish city of Turku overturned the decision of Mayor Minna Arve to demolish the monument to Vladimir Lenin erected in 1977.

What is it, did the brave dates wake up and remember who granted them independence!?
Now we are waiting for the reaction of the brothel or another figure from Brussels and the stigma of “Putin’s accomplice” for Finland...

[ivan2022]

"Finiki" did not forget anything....
Lenin's government granted independence to Finland at the end of 1917 simply because it could not afford anything else....

And then until May 1918 it supported the Red Finns... To annex. But the strength was not enough. The problems of Ukraine and Poland were dealt with right up to 1921.

It is only in the delirium of modern “patriots” that the annexation of states is like two fingers....
Heh... heh.. Take it and annex Ukraine tomorrow, which in 1991 was famously pooped in the Belovezhskaya forest “so as not to feed them”

The Bolsheviks had to first win the Second World War in order to create a buffer zone west of the USSR.
Soon the fairy tale will tell, but not soon the deed will be done....
Everything is clear with dates, but what’s been going on in the heads of “dear Russians” for the last 30 years or so is something you can’t even understand with your mind... but dates are normal, they’ll figure it out without us.... .