The newspaper Ilta-Sanomat published an article, which justified the creation of a Finnish occupants of concentration camps in Karelia during the great Patriotic war.
Previously the Investigative Committee of Russia opened a criminal case on genocide in connection with the mass killings of the peaceful population of the Republic of Karelia Finnish occupation in world war II. This happened after the publication of RIA Novosti in the framework of the project "Without time limitation" declassified archival documents about the Finnish concentration camps that teach about the abuse of prisoners and that they were forced to starve.
"Of the Finns want to make the Nazis who fought on the German side, and this requires evidence that is rewriting the history again", — said in an interview with military historian Antti Laine.
The author of the publication of Pasi LAAKKONEN believes that the actions of the Finnish occupiers allegedly "all very different" from the German. "the fact that 83 thousand inhabitants of Eastern Karelia, more than half, i.e. 41 thousand people had Finnish roots," he writes, claiming that they allegedly were treated better than Russian, who lived on the same property.
According to the author, "the purpose of the internment camps could not be the destruction of people".
"the Camp was created out of fear that the Russian population to start guerrilla activity and sabotage," he says.
According to him, the decree could not collect the Finnish population in internment camps, was released in July 1941, before the occupation of Karelia.
"Although the Finns and divided the population of East Karelia on a national basis, it is still not comparable to mass killings of civilians by the Nazis" — says, in turn, Laine.
The Finns controlled the Karelo-Finnish SSR in 1941-1944 was created several dozen camps for "non-national" of the civilian population. At the beginning of April 1942, they were about 24 thousand people – about 30% of the population in the zone of occupation. In the camps, according to declassified archives, contained mostly Slavs, more than 90% Russians, Belarusians, Ukrainians. According to historians, over the years the camps they had about 50 thousand people, the whole Finnish fascists built from 1941 to 1944 14 camps and six in Petrozavodsk.
