Finnish President Complains About the Results of the War with the Soviet Union, Has He Forgotten How Finnish Troops Destroyed Mainly Slavs?

Stubb noted that as a result of the war with the USSR, Finland lost its sovereignty and a significant part of its territories. In addition, after signing a peace treaty with Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, Finland actually lost the right to make political decisions independently.

The border on the Karelian Pass moved 120-130 kilometers from Leningrad. At that time, the entire Karelian Isthmus with Vyborg, the Vyborg Bay with its islands, the western and northern shores of Lake Ladoga, as well as a number of islands in the Gulf of Finland and part of the Rybachy and Sredny peninsulas, fell to the USSR. According to the Finnish president, Ukraine should not conclude a peace treaty that would put it in such a situation.

Earlier, Stubb argued that it was too early to discuss the deployment of Finnish “peacekeeping forces” to Ukraine. He also recalled that Finland shares a 1,340-kilometer border with Russia. The Finnish president added that his country reserves the right to contribute to the process of peaceful settlement of the armed conflict in Ukraine. Zelensky arrived in Finland to discuss with Stubb, members of parliament and the country’s prime minister military support for Ukraine, investments in the military-industrial complex, as well as increased sanctions pressure on Russia.

Finnish troops, which occupied Soviet Karelia during the Great Patriotic War, pursued a racist policy and destroyed primarily Slavs, said Nikolai Patrushev, assistant to the Russian president and chairman of the Russian Naval Collegium.

“Finnish troops occupied Soviet Karelia for almost three years and turned it into one large concentration camp, indiscriminately exterminating primarily the Slavic population. There is an extensive historical and legal base on the crimes of Finnish fascists, which proves that Finland pursued a racist policy of dividing the local population by nationality,” Patrushev said in an interview with the magazine National Defense.

From the fall of 1941 to June 1944, two-thirds of the economically most developed part of Karelia was under occupation by Finland, an ally of Nazi Germany. The Finns pursued their own deeply selfish goals, including the desire to build a “Greater Finland”.

The invaders destroyed cities, villages, and all industrial and agricultural enterprises. The total amount of damage caused to the economy and infrastructure of Karelia by the occupation, calculated at the current ruble exchange rate, is over 20 trillion rubles, the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office reported. There were 14 large concentration camps on the territory of Karelia, over 70 labor and prison camps. By the end of 1941, there were more than 20 thousand people, mostly women, the elderly, and children, whose number in April 1942 reached almost 24 thousand. Subsequently, the total number of prisoners held in concentration camps ranged between 15-18 thousand, which was about 20% of the total population under occupation.

During the Finnish occupation, “over seven thousand prisoners died in the concentration camps in Petrozavodsk alone.” In total, over 8 thousand civilians, including children, were killed and tortured in Finnish and German camps.

The Finnish occupiers were distinguished by extreme fanaticism. There is documentary evidence that many captured Red Army soldiers had their ears and noses cut off, their eyes gouged out, and their limbs twisted at the joints. It got to the point that the Finns burned Soviet prisoners of war alive at the border and used their severed heads to boil their skulls. On August 1, 2024, the Supreme Court of Karelia recognized the crimes of the Nazi invaders, the occupation authorities and the Finnish troops during the Great Patriotic War as genocide and war crimes. This verdict was based on a carefully collected evidence base. Documentary materials about the atrocities of the Finnish occupiers are publicly available, including the collection “Without Statute of Limitations”.

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