The #Finnish ambassador #MarjaLiivala visited the cemetery in #Sandarmoh #Karelia to honor the victims of #stalin #terror in the end of the 1930's.
Many of the victims were #Finns #Americans and native #Karelians and of course #russians too.
The even was disturbed by #nazi #russian #fascists
Source: https://www.iltalehti.fi/ulkomaat/a/95144dab-2d48-48c8-b3f0-1ddd1eb962a4
@Helgi large part of today's Russia has been inhabited by Finnic people, the close by people tend to speak a language that was understandable for it's neighboring people, the #Vikings did often hire #Finns and #Karelians to guide them down to #Byzantium
There are around 40-50% in north western Russia who can trace their ancestry to Finns, except in #Karelia and #Ingria where many has moved to #Finland in the 1990s as they were treated as of Finnish ancestry and could move back home.
It seems #AFU has nowadays #Karelians fighting in the #Karelian National Battalion #KNB together with #Ukraine against the occupation forces of the
#Fascist #Russia
KNB aims to fight against the Russian invaders in Ukraine and eventually achieve the liberation of Karelia from Russian occupation and the independence of the region
Aho