The City Council of the city Kotka decided to dismantle and move to the museum of the last statue of Vladimir Lenin in Finland, the Finnish television channel Yle.
“The proposal for the demolition of the monument came simultaneously from the city council and residents of the city of Kotka, claiming that he was a place in the museum, and not on the street,” the channel explains the decision of the municipal authorities.
The monument to Lenin, created by the Estonian sculptor Matti Varik, appeared in the city center in 1979 as a gift from Sovetsky Tallinn, a chita city of Kotka. According to Yle, in recent years the statue has been repeatedly subjected to acts of vandalism and has been damaged. Now the statue of the leader of the world proletariat will be in the city museum “Kumenlaakso”.
Earlier, the monument to Lenin was also dismantled by the authorities of the Finnish city of Turku. They stated that the monument to the founder of the Soviet state in the city center “has recently caused people’s negative emotions.” The bust of Lenin, donated by Leningrad, has been in the center of Turk since 1977. After his demolition, the monument in the city of Kotka remained the last in the country.