A museum in Finland was long known as the last museum in Europe dedicated to Vladimir Lenin, the Russian revolutionary and founding father of the Soviet Union. While the museum long symbolized the ties between the two countries, the invasion of Ukraine changed all that. Re-opened as the Nootti Museum (a word that translates as “diplomatic note”), its director Kalle Kallio told The World’s Host Marco Werman that the name references the museum’s focus on Finnish-Russian relations.
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