> As Moscow prepared annexation of Ukrainian regions, top Russian officials took part in a ceremony on the Soviet “liberation” of the former Finnish town of Alakurtti in 1944.
> “We will always remember the ones that gave us the opportunity to live in a free country and we will never forget their courageous bravery,” said Irina Prosolenko.
>
> The member of the Murmansk regional Duma in her interview with Russian state TV stood in front of the local war memorial in Alakurtti. On site are memorial plates with the inscription of more than 900 names, all of them men that lost their lives in 2WW battles in the area.
>
> The ceremony was devoted to Soviet troops’ so-called liberation of Alakurtti in September 1944. Several more state dignitaries were represented, among them Deputy Governor of Murmansk Vladimir Yevmenkov and Deputy Head Commander of the Northern Fleet Igor Kurochkin.
>
> The former is the right hand of regional Governor Andrei Chibis and has accompanied his boss on several of his recent work travels, including to occupied territories in Donetsk and Kharkiv regions.
>
> Alakurtii was Finnish territory until Stalin on the 30th of November 1939 attacked the neighboring country and ultimately annexed major parts of its territory. The attack followed the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, the so-called non-aggression agreement between the USSR and Nazi Germany that included a secret protocol on the former’s right to annex parts of Poland, the Baltic states and Finland.
>
> The pact between the two barbarous dictators paved the way for the world war.
>
> Stalin is believed to have planned to annex all of Finland, but the fierce Finnish resistance led to massive Soviet losses. After three and a half months of fighting, more than 125,000 Red Army soldiers had been killed.
> _the Soviet “liberation” of the former Finnish town of Alakurtti in 1944…. We will always remember the ones **that gave us the opportunity to live in a free country** and we will never forget their courageous bravery,” said Irina Prosolenko._
LOL
Good lord.
NJET MOLOTOFF
They have high quality of life now I imagine
LMFAO
From the article:
“As Moscow prepared annexation of Ukrainian regions, **top Russian officials took part in a ceremony on the Soviet “liberation” of the former Finnish town of Alakurtti in 1944.**
**“We will always remember the ones that gave us the opportunity to live in a free country and we will never forget their courageous bravery,” said Irina Prosolenko.**
Irina Prosolenko is **member of the Murmansk regional Duma**.
**The ceremony was devoted to Soviet troops’ so-called liberation of Alakurtti in September 1944**.
**Alakurtii was Finnish territory until Stalin on the 30th of November 1939 attacked the neighboring country and ultimately annexed major parts of its territory**.
According to Kari Aga Myklebost, a Professor in History at the University of Tromsø, Norway, **the ceremony in Alakurtti illustrates how Moscow now seeks to legitimate its war in Ukraine.**
“This is a **blatant example of how in the Russian public sphere, official memorial ceremonies dedicated to The Great Patriotic War are now being used actively to legitimate the Russian onslaught on Ukraine**,” she says in a comment to the Barents Observer.”
Finnish redditors, feel free to give ypour opinion on this, I am quite curious.
I don’t know if it is wise of Russia to point at other annexed territories at this point in time…
I think they would have a better chance of keeping them if the world more or less forgot about them.
Free Ingria!
Free Karelia!
Well, for a change, at least this time they’re celebrating the annexation of land that they actually control.
Those people are living in a Orwell’s novel
Yeah let’s celebrate that you now live in an AIDS infected shithole country run by a maffia regime rather than in the one of the most developed countries in the world.
That’s some 1984 shit. Annexes new land: “This was always ours”
I wish at least they did some shit to the former Finnish lands. Like all the Soviet annexed lands are in sad conditions while just across the border, life conditions are one the 10 according to most metrics in the world…
Like seriously, these losers are crossing border to ask for asylum every day…
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> As Moscow prepared annexation of Ukrainian regions, top Russian officials took part in a ceremony on the Soviet “liberation” of the former Finnish town of Alakurtti in 1944.
> “We will always remember the ones that gave us the opportunity to live in a free country and we will never forget their courageous bravery,” said Irina Prosolenko.
>
> The member of the Murmansk regional Duma in her interview with Russian state TV stood in front of the local war memorial in Alakurtti. On site are memorial plates with the inscription of more than 900 names, all of them men that lost their lives in 2WW battles in the area.
>
> The ceremony was devoted to Soviet troops’ so-called liberation of Alakurtti in September 1944. Several more state dignitaries were represented, among them Deputy Governor of Murmansk Vladimir Yevmenkov and Deputy Head Commander of the Northern Fleet Igor Kurochkin.
>
> The former is the right hand of regional Governor Andrei Chibis and has accompanied his boss on several of his recent work travels, including to occupied territories in Donetsk and Kharkiv regions.
>
> Alakurtii was Finnish territory until Stalin on the 30th of November 1939 attacked the neighboring country and ultimately annexed major parts of its territory. The attack followed the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, the so-called non-aggression agreement between the USSR and Nazi Germany that included a secret protocol on the former’s right to annex parts of Poland, the Baltic states and Finland.
>
> The pact between the two barbarous dictators paved the way for the world war.
>
> Stalin is believed to have planned to annex all of Finland, but the fierce Finnish resistance led to massive Soviet losses. After three and a half months of fighting, more than 125,000 Red Army soldiers had been killed.
> _the Soviet “liberation” of the former Finnish town of Alakurtti in 1944…. We will always remember the ones **that gave us the opportunity to live in a free country** and we will never forget their courageous bravery,” said Irina Prosolenko._
LOL
Good lord.
NJET MOLOTOFF
They have high quality of life now I imagine
LMFAO
From the article:
“As Moscow prepared annexation of Ukrainian regions, **top Russian officials took part in a ceremony on the Soviet “liberation” of the former Finnish town of Alakurtti in 1944.**
**“We will always remember the ones that gave us the opportunity to live in a free country and we will never forget their courageous bravery,” said Irina Prosolenko.**
Irina Prosolenko is **member of the Murmansk regional Duma**.
**The ceremony was devoted to Soviet troops’ so-called liberation of Alakurtti in September 1944**.
**Alakurtii was Finnish territory until Stalin on the 30th of November 1939 attacked the neighboring country and ultimately annexed major parts of its territory**.
According to Kari Aga Myklebost, a Professor in History at the University of Tromsø, Norway, **the ceremony in Alakurtti illustrates how Moscow now seeks to legitimate its war in Ukraine.**
“This is a **blatant example of how in the Russian public sphere, official memorial ceremonies dedicated to The Great Patriotic War are now being used actively to legitimate the Russian onslaught on Ukraine**,” she says in a comment to the Barents Observer.”
Finnish redditors, feel free to give ypour opinion on this, I am quite curious.
I don’t know if it is wise of Russia to point at other annexed territories at this point in time…
I think they would have a better chance of keeping them if the world more or less forgot about them.
Free Ingria!
Free Karelia!
Well, for a change, at least this time they’re celebrating the annexation of land that they actually control.
Those people are living in a Orwell’s novel
Yeah let’s celebrate that you now live in an AIDS infected shithole country run by a maffia regime rather than in the one of the most developed countries in the world.
That’s some 1984 shit. Annexes new land: “This was always ours”
I wish at least they did some shit to the former Finnish lands. Like all the Soviet annexed lands are in sad conditions while just across the border, life conditions are one the 10 according to most metrics in the world…
Like seriously, these losers are crossing border to ask for asylum every day…