Sikkerhetspolitisk minnediplomati: Opprettelsen av Frigjøringsmonumentet i Kirkenes 1945-1952

• Published in: Nordisk Østforum
• Main Author: Markussen, Joakim Aalmen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Norwegian Bokmål
• Published: Cappelen Damm Akademisk 2021
• Subjects: VDP::Humanities: 000::History: 070; VDP::Humaniora: 000::Historie: 070; Norway; The Monument; Finnmark; Kirkenes; Northern Norway
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/22381; https://doi.org/10.23865/noros.v35.2960

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 borderland. The Soviet Liberation Monument, as the statue is called, was unveiled in 1952 by the Norwegian authori...