“This group wants to honour the memory of Aleksei Navalny by installing a memorial bench. Helsinki is granting permission for the bench to be placed in a public park,” Luomanen said in an email.
According to Luomanen, the activists will be responsible for the design, costs and maintenance of the memorial bench after its installation.
Previously Finland has scrubbed off Lenin from everywhere because of “Russia’s aggression”. Unlike this fascist, Lenin actually is important person in Finland’s history. Interesting to see how long this bench is going to stay.
Indeed. Finns firmly believe their own propaganda, like “we were the good guys and innocent bystanders who got brutally attacked by the Soviet Union” or “we have no homeless” or “there is no racism in Finland” etc. Everyone has heard of American exceptionalism, but Finland has its own version too. A country with a healthy working class movement would not allow this.