• Dragkamp og balansegang. Frigjøringsmarkeringene i Kirkenes 1954-1994: Et minnepolitisk perspektiv 

      Myklebost, Kari Aga; Markussen, Joakim Aalmen (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-05-07)
      This study traces the development over fifty years of the joint Norwegian–Soviet/Russian commemorations of the Red Army liberation of the eastern part of Finnmark County, Norway, in October 1944. The first commemorative events were held in October 1954 in the town of Kirkenes close to the Norwegian–Soviet border. Throughout the Cold War and into the post-Soviet period, such events have been arranged ...
    • Sikkerhetspolitisk minnediplomati: Opprettelsen av Frigjøringsmonumentet i Kirkenes 1945-1952 

      Markussen, Joakim Aalmen (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-06-25)
      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 authorities, in gratitude for the Soviet liberation of the East Finnmark area in 1944. The statue has served ...