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25 mar 2016 · More than 80 years ago, several thousand American Finns arrived in the Soviet republic of Karelia, hoping to build a new life in harmony with their socialist ideals.
In the early 1930s nearly 6,000 Finnish Americans, predominantly from the Upper Midwest and Lake Superior region of the United States and Canada, left North America for Karelia, Russia with the intent to help build a Utopian Finnish-speaking society that never came to fruition.
12 paź 2014 · Even before terror took hold of their adopted country in the latter half of the decade, many Finnish-Americans became simply disenchanted with standards of living in Karelia, and it is estimated that up to half of those who came left in short order.
The capital and the largest city in Karelia (with just under 300,000 people living there) is famous for having one of the most remarkable waterfronts in Russia.
Karelians (Karelian: karjalaižet, karjalazet, karjalaiset; Finnish: karjalaiset; Swedish: kareler, karelare; Russian: карелы, romanized: karely) are a Baltic Finnic ethnic group who are indigenous to the historical region of Karelia, which is today split between Finland and Russia.
Finding Finnish North Americans in Karelia In the era of Stalinist Terror and World War II, Finnish North Americans still in Karelia and those evacuated to Siberia had been left largely without links to their North American home communities.
