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In Russia, this conflict, as well as the Finnish expeditions into East Karelia and the Petsamo in 1918–1920, is considered a military intervention and called the First Soviet–Finnish War.
Significant enclaves of Karelians exist in the Tver oblast of Russia, resettled after Russia's defeat in 1617 against Sweden — in order to escape forced conversion to Lutheranism in Swedish Karelia. The Russians also promised tax deductions if the Orthodox Karelians migrated there.
The Karelian question or Karelian issue (Finnish: Karjala-kysymys, Swedish: Karelska frågan, Russian: Карельский вопрос) is a dispute in Finnish politics over whether to try to regain control over eastern Karelia and other territories ceded to the Soviet Union in the Winter War and the Continuation War.
27 sty 2017 · In an article in the Soviet Finnish journal Punalippu [Red Flag] (renamed Carelia in 1990) a survivor, Jaakko Rugojev, recounts that all but two members of the Finnish-language section of the Karelian Union of Writers were arrested in 1937-38 and all their works were banned.
After the defeat of the Red Finns in the 1918 Finnish civil war, there was an influx into Soviet Russia of Finnish Communists.3 Like other educated Finns of their day, their leaders saw East or Russian Karelia (Itai-Karjala, "Far Karelia" [Kauko-Karjala] or "Karelia-beyond-the border" [rajantakainen Karjala]) as an inalienable part of Finnish
Seppo Lallukka . THE MAJOR GEOGRAPHICAL GROUPS OF KARELIANS The Karelian population of the Soviet Union reached a peak of 250000 in the 1930s. The main areas of settlement of the nationality were the Karelian ASSR and the Upper Volga region (especially the Tver' province or oblast').
World War more than half of the population was still ethnically Karelian or Finnish (including Veps and Ingrians) and the region was at times governed by exiled Finnish Communists. It may be safely assumed that the intention of the policies pursued after the Second World War on the Soviet side was to further increase the cultural and
