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Renovated Lenin Museum Opens in Finland

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Renovated Lenin Museum Opens in Finland


Photo: Wikipedia The new renovated Lenin Museum which was closed for nearly a year due to remedial work opens on the 17th of June 2016 in Tampere, reports IA «Interfax».

According to the Director of the museum Kalle Kallio, new exhibits have been added to the exposition. Now they do not only deal with Lenin’s life and activity but with the history of the USSR as well.

Lenin Museum is located at the Worker's Hall of Tampere, the building where Lenin and Stalin met for the first time.

Besides, it was in that building where Lenin promised to give Finland independence if the Bolsheviks defeated tzarism.

The Tampere Lenin Museum was the first museum of that kind established in a foreign country. Iy was opened in early 1946. The opening ceremony was dated to the date of Lenin’s death. The Museum celebrates its 70th anniversary this year.

At the moment, it is the only Lenin foreign museum with permanent exposition telling the visitors about Lenin’s life and political activity as well as about Soviet socialism

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