Exhibition "Faces of Russian Resistance" opens in Mo i Rana, Norway

The exhibition will be on display in the city from May 15 to August 31 next to the Grønskik Coastal Fort Museum.

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The location was not chosen by chance. The museum is one of 18 departments of the Helgeland Museum, and the only department dedicated to the history of World War II. The fort is part of Hitler's large-scale Atlantic Wall project, designed to protect the captured territories from attack from the West. During the construction of the fort, as well as during its operation, slave labor of Soviet and Polish prisoners of war was used. Individual buildings, bunkers, and an observation post have survived to this day. A few meters from the museum is the burial place of 7 Soviet prisoners of war - Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians. The museum itself houses a permanent exhibition "Traitor", which examines the problem of the moral choice of an ordinary citizen who found himself under occupation, the activities of the Norwegian resistance, the conditions of detention of prisoners of war and the fate of people after liberation. The exhibition presents documents, photographs, and household items from the Second World War. One of the sections of the exposition is dedicated to the history of the Cold War. It presents equipment and a model from the Omega station, built to monitor the movement of submarines during the Cold War.

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Thus, the exhibition “Faces of the Russian Resistance” is a continuation of the museum’s theme and will become a kind of connecting bridge from history to the present.

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