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Helsinki proposes Navalny memorial site near Russian Embassy

yle.fi Helsinki proposes Navalny memorial site near Russian Embassy

Sunday marks a year since the Russian opposition leader's death.

"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.

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Finland really is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. They have people believing they’re the sweetest, most tolerant and happy country ever, yet they seemed to have never let go of their fascist past. Literally celebrating a violent racist… cool.
- 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.

a clown country
- It's a damn shame considering Finland at one point almost had a successful communist revolution and Stalin himself was sympathetic to Finnish Independence from the Russian Empire. But I suppose that's what pushed the Finnish bourgeoisie to be extra diligent in libwashing the country.
  
  Correct. Failure of class war left generational scars, and WWII gave an illusion of unity. Class consciousness is effectively replaced with reactionary garbage. People think Finland is bee’s knees and buys into bourgeoisie propaganda without questioning. A clown country, truly.
  
  sadly