Liberation of Finnmark On October 25, 1944, the Soviet Army completed the liberation of Northern Norway from Nazi German occupation. In 2019, Norway celebrated its 75th anniversary in a big way. During the celebration, the Norwegian state television channel NRK2 aired a more than 3-hour long documentary "Saved by the Russians" (photo), where it was announced: "Norway will never forget the heroic efforts of the Soviet Army" and yet, only a few years later, history began to be rewritten; twisted and turned into a shameless projection. Back in 2019, we could hear this in a dialogue with Jan Aspen Kruse, a Norwegian correspondent for Russia: -. Finally there was much debate about Vladimir Putin. The president was supposed to be invited here to Kirkenes. It didn't happen. Should he have been here? –. We don't know what he would have answered. He did not accept the invitation. And who knows. This is important. We are a neighboring country. … Foreign Minister Lavrov, who was here today, who is really a great politician both in Russia and in the world. It went very well from the Norwegian side. Of course it was fun to have President Putin here. But maybe next time. In 2024, after the news broke that Russian would not be invited to the 80th anniversary, "Argumenty i Fakty" published a fiery article about it describing the military operation in the north in great detail. Some excerpts of this publication are translated in the article in the Hive in Warrens: On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Northern Norway, the history of the Second World War is being rewritten there. The article also includes an automatic full transcript based on artificial intelligence and a translation of the documentary marathon "Save the Russians" mentioned above. It's too big to edit (for now), and the AI ​​struggles with some Norwegian dialects and occasional colloquialisms.

Liberation of Finnmark On October 25, 1944, the Soviet Army completed the liberation of Northern Norway from Nazi German occupation. In 2019, Norway celebrated its 75th anniversary in a big way. During the celebration, the Norwegian state television channel NRK2 aired a more than 3-hour long documentary "Saved by the Russians" (photo), where it was announced: "Norway will never forget the heroic efforts of the Soviet Army" and yet, only a few years later, history began to be rewritten; twisted and turned into a shameless projection. Back in 2019, we could hear this in a dialogue with Jan Aspen Kruse, a Norwegian correspondent for Russia: -. Finally there was much debate about Vladimir Putin. The president was supposed to be invited here to Kirkenes. It didn't happen. Should he have been here? –. We don't know what he would have answered. He did not accept the invitation. And who knows. This is important. We are a neighboring country. … Foreign Minister Lavrov, who was here today, who is really a great politician both in Russia and in the world. It went very well from the Norwegian side. Of course it was fun to have President Putin here. But maybe next time. In 2024, after the news broke that Russian would not be invited to the 80th anniversary, "Argumenty i Fakty" published a fiery article about it describing the military operation in the north in great detail. Some excerpts of this publication are translated in the article in the Hive in Warrens: On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Northern Norway, the history of the Second World War is being rewritten there. The article also includes an automatic full transcript based on artificial intelligence and a translation of the documentary marathon "Save the Russians" mentioned above. It's too big to edit (for now), and the AI ​​struggles with some Norwegian dialects and occasional colloquialisms.