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18.01.2002 Markus Lehtipuu WHAT KOROBITSYNO - ALL DOWN HILL? As a frequent visitor to Karelian Peresheek, I stopped to wonder which downhill center is in "Korobitsyno"? Finnish citizens never forget nor forgive Stalin’s crimes since 1939. As a peaceful nation, Finland had to endure 105 horrendous days of Winter War aggression from 30 November 1939 to 15 March 1940, a humiliating Peace Treaty and traumatic refugee flow of some 420,000 citizens of Finnish Karelia, including what today is called "Korobitsyno". Stalin started the war but never was punished for this crime against humanity. There never was any "Korobitsyno" on Karelian Peresheek. The village was called "Sakastila" for centuries if not a millennium. Always inhabited by Finnish-speaking Finns, Karelian Peresheek consisted of 900 inhabited, flourishing villages from Aherikko to Ylaurpala, until Stalin sent more than a million Soviet troops to conquer Finland and to send its people to labor camps in Siberia. In 1948, that aggressive, criminal Soviet state renamed all villages in Karelian Peresheek from Aleksandrovka to Zverovo, including such stupid names as Komsomolskoe, Traktornoe or Krasnoflotskoe. What a shame for Russians to attack a small peace-loving country, to steal and rob other people’s property, to rename those villages and to pretend that they have "always" been "Russian" Nothing could be farther from the truth. These 900 villages have been Finnish-inhabited, Finnish-named for hundreds of years, and today’s Soviet-sounding names bring only Stalin’s crimes to my mind. What is this country Russia? World’s largest country, that always has attacked smaller neighbors, taken other people’s property, land and buildings, and then pretends to "owe" them, keeping a ridiculous myth alive of "victory" when the truth is horrendous war crimes, broken international agreements, pacts and treaties and humiliation, threats and lies? Who could trust Russians after these crimes and broken promises? In 1920, Finns and Russians signed a Peace Treaty which included that Karelian Peresheek belongs to Finland. In 1932, Finns and Russians signed a non-aggression pact, which reconfirmed the 1920 borders. Then enter Stalin, that criminal dictator from Georgia. Is Russia a Stalinist nation still? If Russia intends to become a normal country with friendly diplomatic ties with its neighbors, it should return stolen land and property, withdraw from Finnish territory and, not only apologize for its war crimes and obnoxious attitudes to its smaller neighbors but also start to pay back damages for suffering of 420,000 innocent refugees, destroyed property and other crimes. Today the former wealthy Karelian Peresheek is all in ruins. So, when you write about "Korobitsyno", you should be aware that you’re referring to a Finnish village by the name Sakastila, which has been illegally, aggressively occupied by a criminal, human-rights-violating Soviet Union since 1940/44 and since 1991 by Russian Federation. Many Finnish people want to get back what they legally own in Karelian Peresheek and in the Finnish territory within Karelian Republic and Murmansk Oblast. Russians will ignore international agreements and code-of-conduct to their own peril.  ^ Takaisin ylös  Lisää artikkeleita kirjoittajalta
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