Military Skiing Competition In Hiitola. Lotta Svärd Member On Track. 21st Of February 1943 Hiitola,

The Late Riser   -    Robert Schiff ,  before 1935.

Austrian , 1869 - 1935

oil on canvas

Bourdain and Blythe

Elena Mrozovskaya (Russian, 1892-1941)

Finnish actress Ida Emilia Aalberg as Magda in Hermann Sudermann’s play “Heimat”, Saint Petersburg

W. Kandinsky, Rotterdam Sun, 1906

Monument to fallen Finnish soldiers goes missing in Käkisalmi

Käkisalmi is a Finnish town on the Karelian isthmus that was ceded to the Soviet Union.

The monument was erected in 2019. Carved on its sides are the names of the fallen local Finnish soldiers. The years 1939-1945 are carved on the front of the monument. This reflects the Russian version of how the years should be marked. In reality, the Winter War was fought from 1939 to 1940, and the Continuation War from 1941 until 1944.

Screenshots of letters from local administrative authorities have been circulated on Russian social media, urging them to report monuments to citizens of "unfriendly countries" in the Leningrad region. Allegedly, a representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs requested information about the monuments urgently.

This could be continuation to the demolition of the monument to fallen Finnish soldiers in Koivisto. According to the Ilta-Sanomat article, the removal of a monument in Kirvu is currently ongoing. Many Finnish war memorials on the ceded territory have also been vandalised with nazi symbols.

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Summer 2021 :)

Brick making in the city of Pori in Finland. Photographed by Kustaa Emil Klint. 1910-1939.

Source: https://finna.fi/Record/satakunnanmuseo.15977E94-053D-447C-9C8F-0C15C034A372

Daisies, summer 2021.