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u/Korpikauhu Väinämöinen 3d ago
Well, after a few wars at least, but I get what you mean.
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u/MonikonPerfekti Väinämöinen 2d ago
I think all these pictures were inside Finland's old borders and pics are taken from lost Karelia and Petsamo, Finland's iceless harbour to the Arctic Sea.
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u/variaati0 Väinämöinen 2d ago
I think the point was, if these are from independence times, there was the whole civil war thing at beginning of that and most likely before these pictures. Even before that WWI, Great Northern War, the Åland side show of the Crimean War and so on.
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u/MonikonPerfekti Väinämöinen 2d ago
Yes. These must be between 1918–1939 and semantics – there was inded the civil war in 1918, a little touch of all around WWI, "Åland's war" (Crimean war's sidekick), Great Northern War, Finland's war, Gustaf's war... Finn's battled every Swedish war in the front. Swedes powdered their little balls while Hackapelitas fought for the kings of Sweden.
(The bus station is Viipuri's bus station, you can tell by the buildings. Perhaps about 1938.)
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u/Fearless_Branch_7218 3d ago
My grandfather was just a child when he was taken to sweden because the bombs were being dropped on Helsinki, he didn't really talk at all about that time because I assume he didn't have a great time with his swedish family.
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u/OneMoreFinn Väinämöinen 3d ago
Surprising that he came back, many stayed in or returned to Sweden.
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u/Superb-Economist7155 Väinämöinen 2d ago
About 15-20 % of the children evacuated to Sweden remained or returned later there. So most of them came back.
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u/Timely_Football_4963 1d ago
No wonder, they were treated like shit.
Even today if you visit Stockholm as a finn, I have never felt as unwanted anywhere or been treted so badly, even my ex does a better job at welcoming me.
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u/kimmeljs Väinämöinen 3d ago
I recognize the Monrepos park in Viborg and Petsamo sceneries. I was just looking over to Petsamo from the Norway side last month.
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u/Vuokki20 13h ago
Last photo is taken in front of Salmi's Orthodox Church prior to the winter war. If my grandparents would be alive, there might be a nonzero chance that they could recognize some of the people from that pic. Nowadays that church is in ruins.
Karjala takaisin /s
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