Damnatio Memoriae

Einari Paakkanen, Inka-Maria Achté

Finland / 2023 / Documentary / 5’42”I2403356

Damnatio Memoriae
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For many Finns, Vladimir Lenin is to thank for Finland’s independence from Russia in 1917. But with Putin’s aggression in Ukraine, citizens of a small Finnish town of Kotka near the Russian border, have to re-evaluate their views about the fate of Finland’s last remaining Lenin statue. Is the bronze monument a disgrace, a tourist attraction, art, or all of the above?

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