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17 paź 2016 · The native inhabitants of the Republic of Karelia, one of Russia’s most beautiful regions located along the border with Finland, are seeking ways to maintain their traditional culture in the ...
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 culture-the land of The Kalevala, the Finnish national epic, and the
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.
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
Self-identified ethnic Russians comprise 74.3%, and the combination of Slavic peoples (Russians, Ukrainians, and Belorussians) comprises 84.9% of the population on Karelian territory.
14 lis 2016 · A tiny village in Karelia survives, thrives, preserves its heritage and even welcomes tourists, particularly to savour their special ‘kalitka’ pies. "You won't find any authentic kalitka pies ...
There were Karelian-speaking Karelians living in the easternmost parts of Finnish Karelia, known as "Border Karelia" (Raja-Karjala). As Finland had to cede parts of Karelia to the Soviet Union in World War II, evacuated Karelians and Finnish Karelians settled elsewhere in Finland.
