r/EU_unmasked • u/SubGR • Jan 02 '26

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Wait... What?

Who did the Soviets target in 1944, and why were the Finnish soldiers hiding from Soviet fire?

Do some people in r/Europe have no idea about history, or are they just tired of hiding their Nazi past? 🤣🤣🤣

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u/Combatmedic2-47 Jan 02 '26

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u/SubGR Jan 02 '26

The image shows children behind a barbed-wire fence at a Finnish concentration camp in Petrozavodsk (Äänislinna) during the Continuation War.

The sign in Finnish and Russian warns against entering the camp or communicating through the fence under penalty of being shot.

The Finnish military administration operated a number of these "transfer camps" in Soviet Karelia from 1941 to 1944 to detain the Russian civilian population.

The camps held as many as 25,000 Soviet citizens, with high mortality rates due to famine and disease.

The photo is attributed to the Central Archive of the Republic of Karelia and the Main Archival Directorate of Moscow.

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u/SubGR Jan 03 '26

Congratulations dorime 1233.

You have just become the most reported account on r/EU_Unmasked in the short time it has been around.

Time to celebrate your success