#neuvostoliitto

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🇫🇮 100. Sr1-veturin luovutusjuhlallisuudet Novotšerkasskin veturitehtaalla Neuvostoliitossa vuonna 1983. Kuvalähde tuntematon (=olin tallentanut tämän koneelle jostain ja nyt en löydä alkuperäistä).

🇬🇧 Delivery festivities of the 100th Sr1-class locomotive at the Novocherkassk locomotive plant in the Soviet Union, 1983. Image source unknown (in other words, I had saved this on my computer and now can't find the original source).

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An Yle Uutiset article (published Oct 2022) about new information about Finnish women who fled to USSR during the Finnish Civil War.

I'm posting this because it's interesting to me, and I'll translate it to English in case it might interest someone else.

Texts in italics are excerpts from Maria Lähteenmäki's book Punapakolaiset — Life and fate of Finnish women in Soviet Karelia.

Translation below the link.

Monen suomalaisnaisen elämä päättyi sorakuopan reunalle – kellarista löytyneet elämäkerrat tarjoavat uutta tietoa Neuvostoliittoon loikanne

Uusi tutkimus osoittaa, että Suomesta sisällissodan jälkeen Neuvostoliittoon lähteneet punapakolaiset eivät olleet niin punaisia kuin tähän

Many Finnish women's lives ended at the edge of a gravel pit - the biographies found in the basement offer new information about those who defected to the Soviet Union

A new study shows that the red refugees who left Finland for the Soviet Union after the civil war were not as red as has been thought until now.

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Lempi Pitkälahti had set off from Sodankylä, headed first to Petsamo and crossed the border to Kola. The twenty-something woman's destination was St. Petersburg, where her brother Urho had fled during the Finnish civil war.

The journey through the wilderness to the south was arduous, especially since Pitkälahti was pregnant.

"She was pregnant when she came to the country and gave birth to a son, Toivo, after three months in St. Petersburg. When the brother got married and moved to Karelia in 1928, Lempi, a single parent, went to Petrozavodsk with her child."

Lempi Pitkälahti, who defected to the Soviet Union in 1926, is one of the Finnish women whose life story history professor Maria Lähteenmäki highlights in her recently published research.

The study gives a new picture of defectors: The red refugees who left Finland for the Soviet Union after the civil war were not as red as has been thought until now. Especially in the case of women, the passion of the ideology has been exaggerated.

"Red refugees have been labeled as red-hot communists, but when I went through the stories of women who left Finland, it turned out that most of them had left for the Soviet Union for economic reasons", says Maria Lähteenmäki from the University of Eastern Finland.

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Biographies are unique material

The research is based on rare material: mini-biographies written by the women who left for Soviet Karelia. Maria Lähteenmäki found the collection dusty in the basement of the Karelia Academy of Sciences.

"Finns had compiled biographies in the early 1930s, i.e. in the last meters before Stalin's persecutions."

The biographies opened a unique path for the researcher to the backgrounds of the women: who they were and why they had left their homeland. In previous historical research, women have been left out.

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Refugees or migrants

Red refugees were Finns who left for the Soviet Union in the aftermath of the Finnish Civil War. Maria Lähteenmäki assorts war refugees who left after the end of the civil war, defectors who later crossed the eastern border, and American Finns.

In total, more than 31,000 Finns crossed the eastern border between 1918 and 1938.

"You could just as well call them immigrants, but the established way is to talk about those who left for the West as immigrants and those who left for the Soviet Union as red refugees", Lähteenmäki states.

He points out that both groups had the same goal: they left Finland in search of a better life.

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The women came from extremely poor conditions

The vast majority of women who left Finland as emigrants to Soviet Karelia came from poor conditions in Eastern and Northern Finland.

"It was shocking to read how extremely poor circumstances the women had come from. They were the daughters of crofters or farmers. A large part of them had been child labourers", says Maria Lähteenmäki.

Anni Laitinen, originally from Kymenlaakso, managed to defect to the Soviet Union on the third attempt. Her childhood and youth influenced her political choices.

"As a child laborer, she had worked as a 'painter boy' at the sawmill and board yard in Karhula during the summers. After finishing school, she worked in various jobs, and it wasn't until she turned 16 that she became a permanent employee at the sawmill."

Soviet propaganda promised women equality, work, housing and a good future for children. Poor women were easy to convert.

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The promise of work was kept

Of all the promises, only one came true in the end. There were more jobs for women in the Soviet Union than they could do.

Maria Lähteenmäki says that in addition to domestic and paid work, women had to participate in national defense work and study Soviet ideology.

"Life was extremely exhausting. The average lifespan was 40 years."

Despite the burden, there was a period in the mid-1920s when there was a glimmer of light in the lives of Finnish women. The majority of the Finns had been moved to Karelia, which they had started to build.

Lempi Pitkälahti had, for example, ended up in Säde, a commune founded by Canadian-Finns who moved to Karelia. There she married Kalle Siikanen, who led the commune.

"The farm was soon praised as the 'Flower of Karelia'. The founding members were Finns who did not know Russian, and the entire commune was strictly considered to be Finnish-speaking when new members were chosen."

The time of success was ultimately short-lived. At the turn of the 1930s, Stalin strengthened his power and the Soviet Union began to turn towards a dictatorship.

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Hope turns to destruction

The fate of Red refugees in the Soviet Union was inconsolable. It is estimated that up to 15,000 Finns were destroyed in Stalin's persecutions.

One of them was Lempi Siikanen's (born Pitkälahti) husband Kalle, who was arrested in 1937.

"Kalle Siika, who was picking up his wife Lempi and his newborn baby boy from the hospital, was met by the militia. Kalle laid the baby on the bed and said a heartbreaking goodbye to his family. He sensed that there would be no second return."

Lempi survived Stalin's purges. Instead, the lives of many other Finnish women ended at the edge of a gravel pit.

According to Maria Lähteenmäki, the vast majority of executed Finnish women were ordinary women and housewives. She says that she went through the history of almost 500 Finnish women who were destroyed in persecutions and only 7 percent had ever been a member of a party.

"In Finland, these women were called communists, but in the Soviet Union they were accused of being nationalists and bourgeois."

Women were also transported to prison camps, where the mortality rate was high.

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Only democracy is a friend of women

The Finnish state was aware of the terror taking place in the Soviet Union, but was content to watch the executions of its citizens from the sidelines.

"The attitude was tight. You could get help if the family had small children and lived close to the border. Men of conscription age could also get back, because it was thought that there was a need for them in Finland as well", Maria Lähteenmäki says.

The Finnish state became aware of the fate of the red refugees only a couple of years ago. In 2020, the State Council granted funding to the National Archives for a research project, the goal of which is to thoroughly investigate the fate of Finns who left for the Soviet Union.

Lähteenmäki hopes that lessons will be learned from the stories of the women who left for Soviet Karelia.

Firstly, social classes should not be allowed to separate too far from each other. Secondly, we must hold on to democracy.

"Democracy is the only political system that is the friend of nations and women."

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Ransu ja Pekka Neuvostoliitossa, 1988 (x)

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An article from Yle Uutiset about a research project from 2020 which aims to investigate the lives of Finns in Russia since 1917. Research includes but is not limited to investigation of the fates of the Finns who died in Stalin's persecutions.

I don't know if this is of any interest to anyone who doesn't speak Finnish, I'm going to translate it to English anyway.

Stalinin vainoissa kuolleiden suomalaisten kohtalo selvitetään perinpohjaisesti – lopputulokseen on kaikilla vapaa pääsy

Tutkimus ei rajoitu pelkästään vainojen uhreihin, vaan suomalaisten historiaa Venäjällä tarkastellaan laajasti.

Translation:

The fate of the Finns who died in Stalin's persecutions is thoroughly investigated - everyone will have free access to the final project

The research is not limited to the victims of the persecutions, but the history of Finns in Russia is examined extensively.

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There is a lot of additional information about Finns' lives in Russia coming up. The National Archives will start a five-year research project in September, which will investigate the fate of Finns after the October Revolution of 1917.

The stages of those who moved to Russia and those who returned from there are to be investigated in as much detail as possible. Among them are many who died in the persecutions of the dictator Joseph Stalin, but also others.

- The correct picture can only be obtained by investigating more broadly the phases of Finns in Russia, not just those who died in Stalin's persecutions, emphasizes research director Päivi Happonen from the National Archives.

Recently, Russia has not wanted to emphasize the sufferings of Stalin's era. However, Finland has good connections with the country's archives, and Päivi Happonen does not think that the research will face difficulties.

"Finland has 56 agreements with the archives of Russia and former Soviet Union countries. We have had very good cooperation recently, and I have no doubt that it will continue", says Happonen.

The project will implement an interactive database, which will store biographical information of Finns located in Russia at the time, as well as documents and photos related to them.

"The database is completely freely available to everyone. It will be revealed in stages as the work progresses, but I dare not estimate with certainty when the first information will be there. Hopefully in a year", Happonen says.

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There were Finns that lived widely in different parts of the former Soviet Union, and their situations varied a lot. The concept of Finn is also ambiguous. In addition to those who immigrated from Finland, Ingrians were also counted as Finnish.

Before the Russian October Revolution in 1917, there were about 400,000 people classified as Finnish by language or ethnic background living in the Russian Empire. The figure does not include the Grand Duchy of Finland.

The research is focused on the settlement history of Finns in different regions and their stages. The information is compiled until the end of Nikita Khrushchev's term as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, i.e. until 1964.

The Chancellery of the Government finances this two million euro research project. Before the funding decision, the chancellery ordered a preliminary report on the subject.

Historian Aleksi Mainio, who conducted the survey, considered a deeper study of the matter to be absolutely important.

"Even the estimates of the number of dead fluctuate so much that it proves the need for research. Sometimes they talk about 12,000 dead, sometimes 30,000 or even more", Mainio told Yle in January.

Mainio is the research project manager.

The project also serves international historical research.

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UFO-kohtaaminen Neuvostoliitossa muutti sotilaat kiveksi

UFO-kohtaaminen Neuvostoliitossa muutti sotilaat kiveksi

UFO-havaintojen historiassa vain harvat tarinat ovat yhtä hyytäviä kuin väitetty tapaus, jossa oli mukana neuvostosotilaita kylmän sodan aikana. Salaisen CIA:n asiakirjan mukaan neuvostoliittolainen sotilasyksikkö Ukrainassa oli tiettävästi tekemisissä matalalla lentävän, lautasen muotoisen UFOn kanssa. Kun se oli ammuttu alas, viisi ihmismäistä olentoa ilmestyi esiin, yhdistyi palloksi ja säteili sokaisevaa valoa, joka muutti 23 sotilasta kiveksi. Kaksi valolta suojattua sotilasta jäi henkiin kertomaan tarinaa.

Kyseinen CIA:n asiakirja on käännös kanadalaisen Weekly World News -lehden ja ukrainalaisen Holos Ukrayiny -sanomalehden vuonna 1993 julkaistusta artikkelista. Weekly World News on tunnettu sensaatiomaisista ja kuvitteellisista jutuista. CIA keräsi usein tällaista materiaalia ulkomaisten tiedotusvälineiden ja propagandan analysoimiseksi, ei todennetuksi tiedustelutiedusteluksi. Tämän vuoksi kertomuksen uskottavuus on erittäin kyseenalainen, eikä artikkelissa esitettyjen väitteiden tueksi ole mitään vahvistavia todisteita.

Vaikka Neuvostoliiton tapaus on edelleen kiistanalainen, UFO-havainnot kiehtovat edelleen yleisöä maailmanlaajuisesti. Kansallinen UFO-raportointikeskus (National UFO Reporting Center, NUFORC) on luetteloinut yli 170 000 raporttia perustamisestaan vuonna 1974 lähtien, ja se on dokumentoinut tunnistamattomien ilmailmiöiden erilaisia muotoja ja käyttäytymistä. Raportit salaperäisistä esineistä jatkuvat Nevadan aavikoilta Skotlannin Bonnybridgen taivaalle, ja ne aiheuttavat keskustelua ja tutkimuksia.

Niin kiehtovia kuin nämä tarinat ovatkin, on tärkeää suhtautua niihin terveellä annoksella skeptisyyttä. Monet UFO-havainnot ovat johtuneet luonnonilmiöistä, ihmisen tekemistä esineistä tai vääristä tulkinnoista. Tieteellinen tutkimus ja kriittinen ajattelu ovat edelleen parhaita keinojamme erottaa tosiasia fiktiosta selittämättömän valtakunnassa.

Tarina neuvostosotilaista, jotka UFO muutti kiveksi, on edelleen yksi UFO-tarinoiden oudoimmista tarinoista. Vaikka lähteen uskottavuus on kyseenalainen, tarina kiehtoo ja mystifioi edelleen. Kun jatkamme taivaan tutkimista ja selittämättömien ilmiöiden selvittämistä, on tärkeää tasapainottaa ennakkoluulottomuus ja kriittinen analyysi.

Huomautus: Tämä artikkeli perustuu CIA:n salaiseksi julistettuun asiakirjaan, ja sitä on luettava tietäen sen kyseenalainen alkuperä ja vahvistavien todisteiden puute.

Dokumentissa lukee:

C00386418 *** Document 199 of 54 -’-r FBIS

DOCK 000103001

CLAS UNCLAS 3A/PMU

SERI SERIAL: AU3003152893

PASS PASS: ATTN BBC SD

COUN COUNTRY: RUSSIA INTERNATIONAL

AIHE: LEHTI RAPORTOI VÄITETYISTÄ TODISTEISTA KOSKIEN ONNETTOMUUTTA, JOHON LIITTYI UFO

LÄHDE: KIEV BOLOS UKRAYINY UKRAINAKSI 27.3.93 S. 5

TEKSTI TEKSTI:

//(.(UUSINTAPAINOS SANOMALEHDESTÄ TERNOPIL VECHIRNIY: ”KOSMINEN KOSTO” — ENSIMMÄINEN KAPPALE JULKAISTU LIHAVOITUNA))

((TEKSTI))) SEN JÄLKEEN KUN MIHAIL GORBATSHOV LAKKAUTTI VUONNA 1991 KGB:N HUIPPUSALAISEN TIEDUSTELUHALLINNON, PALJON MATERIAALIA KYSEISELTÄ OSASTOLTA PÄÄTYI ULKOMAILLE, ERITYISESTI CIA:LLE. KUTEN ARVOVALTAINEN CANADIAN WEEKLY WORLD NEWS -LEHTI RAPORTOI, *YHDYSVALTAIN TIEDUSTELUPALVELU SAI HALTUUNSA 250-SIVUISEN TIEDOSTON UFON HYÖKKÄYKSESTÄ SOTILASYKSIKKÖÄ VASTAAN SIPERIASSA.

TIEDOSTO SISÄLTÄÄ PAITSI MONIA DOKUMENTAARISIA VALOKUVIA JA PIIRROKSIA, MYÖS TAPAHTUMIIN OSALLISTUNEIDEN TODISTUSAINEISTOA. ERÄS CIA:N EDUSTAJA VIITTASI TAPAUKSEEN ”KAUHISTUTTAVANA *KUVANA MAAN ULKOPUOLISTEN OLENTOJEN KOSTOSTA, KUVANA, JOKA SAA VEREN ‘HYYTYMÄÄN’”.

KGB:N AINEISTON MUKAAN MELKO MATALALLA LENTÄVÄ LAUTASEN MUOTOINEN AVARUUSALUS ILMESTYI SOTILASYKSIKÖN YLÄPUOLELLE, JOKA OLI SUORITTAMASSA RUTIINIHARJOITUSMANÖÖVEREITÄ. TUNTEMATTOMASTA SYYSTÄ JOKU LAUKAISI YLLÄTTÄEN ILMATORJUNTAOHJUKSEN JA OSUI *UFOON. SE PUTOSI MAAHAN EI KAUKANA, JA SIITÄ NOUSI VIISI LYHYTTÄ HUMANOIDIA, JOILLA OLI ”SUURET PÄÄT JA SUURET MUSTAT SILMÄT”.

KAHDEN ELOON JÄÄNEEN SOTILAAN TODISTUKSISSA TODETAAN, ETTÄ VAPAUTUTTUAAN ROMUSTA AVARUUSOLENNOT TULIVAT LÄHELLE TOISIAAN JA SITTEN ”YHDISTYIVÄT’YHDEKSI ESINEEKSI, JOKA SAI PALLOMAISEN MUODON.” TUO ESINE ALKOI SURISTA JA SIHISTÄ VOIMAKKAASTI JA MUUTTUI SITTEN KIRKKAAN VALKOISEKSI. MUUTAMASSA SEKUNNISSA PALLOT KASVOIVAT PALJON SUUREMMIKSI JA RÄJÄHTIVÄT LEIMAHTAEN ÄÄRIMMÄISEN KIRKKAASEEN VALOON. JUURI SILLÄ HETKELLÄ 23 SOTILASTA, JOTKA OLIVAT SEURANNEET ILMIÖTÄ, MUUTTUIVAT… KIVIPAALUIKSI. VAIN KAKSI SOTILASTA, JOTKA SEISOIVAT VARJOSSA JA OLIVAT VÄHEMMÄN ALTTIINA VALORÄJÄHDYKSELLE, SELVISI HENGISSÄ. *

KGB:N RAPORTISSA KERROTAAN EDELLEEN, ETTÄ UFON JA ”KIVETTYNEIDEN SOTILAIDEN” JÄÄNNÖKSET SIIRRETTIIN SALAISEEN TIETEELLISEEN TUTKIMUSLAITOKSEEN MOSKOVAN LÄHELLE. ASIANTUNTIJAT OLETTAVAT, ETTÄ ENERGIALÄHDE, JOKA ON VIELÄ TUNTEMATON MAAN ASUKKAILLE, MUUTTI VÄLITTÖMÄSTI SOTILAIDEN ELÄVÄN ORGANISMIN RAKENNETTA, MUUTETTUAAN SEN AINEEKSI, JONKA MOLEKYYLIKOOSTUMUS EI EROA KALKKIKIVEN KOOSTUMUKSESTA.

CIA:N EDUSTAJA TOTESI: ”JOS KGB:N TIEDOSTO VASTAA TODELLISUUTTA, KYSEESSÄ ON ÄÄRIMMÄISEN UHKAAVA TAPAUS”. MUUKALAISILLA ON HALLUSSAAN SELLAISIA ASEITA JA TEKNOLOGIAA, JOTKA YLITTÄVÄT KAIKKI OLETUKSEMME. NE VOIVAT PUOLUSTAA ITSEÄÄN, JOS NIITÄ VASTAAN HYÖKÄTÄÄN.”

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