In the context of World peace (sculpture), explore the Revelation of the Reception.
According to reporter Timo Kalevi Forss the old rhetoric of the Finno-Soviet Treaty of 1948 was still alive and well at the sculpture's revelation in 1990 and it was seen to contain "unease from great power politics and stiffness of fur cap embassies". The mayor of Helsinki at the time, Raimo Ilaskivi (National Coalition Party) described the sculpture as a "passionate, clear and concrete appeal for peace and friendship". The Soviet Union was represented by a delegation led by Valeri T. Saikin, the head of the executive committee of the Moscow city council, which also included the sculptor Kiryuhin.
According to Forss glasnost and perestroika had already influenced the thoughts of the Soviet citizens. At the revelation event, the artist said the sculpture was realist but not socialist. He also did not want to describe the female figure in the sculpture as either capitalist or socialist.
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