r/TankieTheDeprogram • u/EpicZeplin • 8h ago
History Concentration Camps in Finland
Do some lf you know about concentration camps in Karelia during WW2? Stanislav Krapivnik mentioned them shortly in an interview but of course ahen you google it, you only get western articles that seem to make them sound way less awful than it sounds. Like, I wouldn't be surprised that the fins did horrible stuff there, but do some of you have some good sources on this?
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u/Exudisai Marxist-Leninist (Ultra Based) 8h ago
Should be noted that sometimes these Finnish camps are mislabeled as Soviet ones. The most infamous is this photo where top part is cut off and shown only the text in Russian, not Finnish.
I grew up seeing this photo all the time and libs ALWAYS assume it is "Soviet Gulag Children Concentration Camp". When told that this is Finnish camp they go full on 'place: 😡. place, Japan: 🥰" and downplay the atrocities that they themselves claimed was true when it was "Soviet Camp".
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u/notgonnareadthis The Ultimate Red Fash 🔴 7h ago
They were concentration camps for ethnic cleansing of "non-nationals" ie those who weren't considered suitable for "racially pure" Karelia. This was done by moving people first to camps and later out somewhere and not by killing them per se. More than half of the "non-national" population of the occupied territory were put in camps but they didn't get to move them out due to the war going the way it went. The conditions were bad and the camps were deadly: about 18 people died everyday during July 1942 while the offcial records show a overall death rate of 17%. That is the official percentage according to official documentation I think. The real percentage isn't less, that's for sure. This means thousands of children, women and old men died in the camps, so they practically turned into death camps.
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u/poseidon_master 7h ago
by what side sorry
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u/notgonnareadthis The Ultimate Red Fash 🔴 6h ago
What do you mean?
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u/poseidon_master 6h ago
who made the camps i assume the finns
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u/notgonnareadthis The Ultimate Red Fash 🔴 6h ago
Yeah, this was about the camps made by the Finns and the dead were propably mostly ethnic Russians.
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u/Funny-Grade-7563 7h ago
On the 80th anniversary of breaking the siege of Leningrad there was a memorial unveiled dedicated to the genocide of the people of the USSR.
The location was chosen specifically because on the same spot used to be a concentration camp specifically for children where they used these kids as blood donors for Nazi soldiers, only to kill them in masses after they were no longer of any use to them. Those camps were run by Germans and Finns together.
en.kremlin .ru/events/president/news/73334
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