the Newspaper Ilta-Sanomat published an article in which he justified the creation of the Finnish occupants of concentration camps in Karelia during the great Patriotic war.
according to the author of the publication of Pasi LAAKKONEN, the actions of the Finnish invaders supposedly “very different” from the German. He explained that out of 83 thousand inhabitants of Eastern Karelia, more than half, i.e. 41 thousand people had Finnish roots. The journalist noted that he was allegedly treated better than the Russians, who lived on the same property.
LAAKKONEN believes that camp internees were not created to kill people. They were created out of “fear that the Russian population to start guerrilla activity and sabotage,” said the reporter.
He also said that the decree could not collect the Finnish population in internment camps, was released in July 1941, that is before the occupation of Karelia.
soobshaet Informed that the Russian Investigative Committee will check on materials declassified archives of the FSB of genocide in connection with the mass killings of the peaceful population of the Republic of Karelia Finnish occupation in the years of the great Patriotic war. Investigators are studying the materials about the destruction of prisoners of war and civilian population of the USSR of Slavic origin in concentration camps created by the Finnish occupation administration on the territory of the Republic. After verification they will be given corresponding legal assessment.
16 APR became aware of the publication of the archives of the FSB with the memories of prisoners of concentration camps, which were visited every fourth inhabitant of the Republic. In 1941-1944, the Finns have built 14 concentration camps in the occupied Karelian-Finnish SSR. In the spring of 1942 there were 24 thousand prisoners, accounting for 30 percent of the population.
