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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.
The next change happened in 1721 as Russia won the great northern war against Sweden (1700–21), which forced Sweden to cede the entire Karelian Isthmus and Ladoga Karelia to Russia, with its now mostly Lutheran population.
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.
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
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.
The Karelians, however, differ from both the Russians and the Finns in language and from the Finns also in religion. Location. Prior to World War II, the Finnish Karelians lived chiefly in Border Karelia, in eight districts along the northeastern shore of Lake Ladoga.
The current chapter outlines the milestones of the history of Karelians, with the focus on the millennial political developments that have defined the fate of their language, including its documentation and cultivation, which have been heavily influenced by Finnish and Russian nationalism.
