Abandoned house in Karelia, Russia.

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  1. How common is in Karelia that old residental building was made of stone? I think Karelians lived in log houses. This was probably some kind of administrative building.

    It hasn’t burned, and without burning it takes tens of years for roof to fall in after abandonment, and those birches inside are at least 20 years old. This house was abandoned long time ago. Maybe after Winter War.

  2. I adore the abandoned mansions of Europe! Why are the urban explorers not more popular? Teaching us about our worlds history & culture < vapid celebrity “reality”cooking/dancing series!

  3. It’s sad that most of Finland doesn’t even want Karelia back at this point due to the population being mostly Russian now (huge difficulty in integration if it was just “given back,” especially economically)

    It should have never been forcefully taken to begin with. Just like Estonia being occupied as long as it was. They have their own culture and language, leave them be.

  4. The proof that this subreddit is filled with hypocritical Russophobes is the number of heavily upvoted comments supporting Finnish irredentism and claiming that a people who haven’t voted, protested or revolted for independence should immediately have it shoved down their throats.

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