Sikkerhetspolitisk minnediplomati: Opprettelsen av Frigjøringsmonumentet i Kirkenes 1945–1952

• Published in: Nordisk Østforum
• Main Author: Joakim Aalmen Markussen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Danish; Swedish
• Published: Cappelen Damm Akademisk NOASP 2021
• Subjects: memory politics; cold war; norway; soviet union; liberation; monument; hist; scipo; Norway; The Monument; Finnmark; Kirkenes; Northern Norway
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.23865/noros.v35.2960; https://doaj.org/article/b64a2218eace424b8b2576755116c2aa

Abstract: Security Policy and Memory Politics: Establishing the Soviet Liberation Monument in Kirkenes, 1945–1952 A few kilometers from the border with Russia, in the town of Kirkenes in the easternmost corner of Northern Norway, there stands a bronze statue of a Soviet soldier looking out over the...