Russia and Finland. private opinion
An open letter to the President, Prime Minister and Speaker of the Finnish Parliament.
“About ten years ago I happened to visit your country twice. I confess that I was not only interested in visiting abroad, but also at the same time getting to know the country that is next to mine. historical homeland - Karelia, where my mother was born.
I was pleasantly surprised by the people of your country, their friendliness, correctness, readiness to help. I saw how carefully the history is preserved, in which the Russian heritage remains.
However, now my opinion about the government of your country has changed a lot. The desire to fulfill the will of the hosts from Washington and join NATO showed how strong the hatred of the so-called civilized Europe for our country is.
Let me recall a few historical facts. In the XNUMXth century, Poland, with the help of mercenaries from other countries, brought fire and destruction to my land, capturing Smolensk, Kyiv, Moscow. In the middle of the XNUMXth century, the Anglo-French coalition invaded the Crimea. In the last century, the Entente countries, including your country, tried to strangle the young Soviet Republic. And every time the intervention met with a rebuff. And never once did my country invade Europe, never once did the troops of my country trample the lands of countries, wanting to tear them to pieces.
Yes, there were three partitions of Poland, but for some reason they blame only Russia, forgetting that Prussia and Austria were the initiators. Russia, on the other hand, was forced to agree in order to at least somehow protect itself. At the same time, Poland received special rights, unlike the rest of the population of Russia.
And now a few words about Finland.
On March 15, 1809, the Russian emperor signed the Manifesto on the state structure of Finland, by which he preserved Swedish legislation on its territory, in terms of internal affairs, which was announced the next day at the opening of the first class meeting of representatives of the peoples of Finland, however, hostilities continued with significant intermittently until the summer of 1809 and ended with the conclusion on September 5 in Friedrichsgam of peace between Russia and Sweden, according to which Sweden ceded Finland to Russia and part of Vesterbotnia up to the rivers Torneo and Muonio (modern communities of Tornio, Ylitornio, Pello, Kolari, Muonio and Enontekiyo).
Starting from the 1840s, during the reign of Nicholas I, reforms in the field of education began to be carried out in the principality. From now on, teaching in Finnish was allowed in local schools. The highest permission was received for the publication of religious, historical and economic literature in national languages. This policy was carried out under Emperor Alexander II. In 1858, the first lyceum appeared, where teaching was conducted in Finnish.
Since the 1860s, a steady cultural upsurge has taken place in the Grand Duchy, the progressive forces of the local intelligentsia sought to give the Finnish language the status of a state language, which was done by Alexander II. In addition, the equality of the Swedish and Finnish languages in court and administration was recognized at the legislative level.
On September 18, 1861, the first issue of the Swedish newspaper Barometern was published. It was the first newspaper in Swedish published regularly in the Russian Empire.
In 1863 in Helsingfors, after a long break, the Finnish Diet was convened again. A start was made to reforms that strengthened the autonomous status of the Grand Duchy of Finland.
The October Revolution of 1917, which overthrew the Provisional Government, allowed the Finnish Senate on December 4, 1917 to sign the Declaration of Independence of Finland, which was approved by Parliament on December 6. Thus, the independence of Finland was proclaimed, which was simultaneously declared a republic (Republic of Finland).
On December 31, 1917, by the Decree of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR, it was proposed to "recognize the state independence of the Republic of Finland."
As you can see, it was my country that enabled your country to become an independent state.
But historical gratitude is not inherent in any country in Western Europe. Your President Ryti took great pleasure in allying himself with Hitler. We remember very well that it was the Finnish army that was one of the culprits in the death of more than one million Leningraders from starvation. We remember that in Finland there were concentration camps in which the Finnish Nazis tortured and killed captured Red Army soldiers and civilians. We will never forget it.
But when Finland asked for peace in 1944, the USSR went forward and made peace with your country, although our army could occupy Finland, as was done with Germany, Hungary and other countries that were Hitler's accomplices. But we didn't. Even at the Nuremberg trials, not a single Finnish politician or representative of the generals, guilty of unleashing a war against the Soviet Union, aggression and genocide of the civilian population, sat on the dock.
My country hoped that this goodwill gesture would not be forgotten. And it seemed that it would. Our cooperation in the post-war period was very successful. In general, I think it was exemplary. No other country has had such a trusting relationship. This is what served as an argument in favor of the fact that it was Finland that became the place where the final act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe was signed.
But after the collapse of the USSR, the united West decided to forget the lessons of Nuremberg and began to expand to the East. How many times has our country asked NATO to stop. But the blind desire to destroy my country, to seize its wealth, moved the countries of Europe according to the plans of Drang nach Osten. I believe that you have forgotten that any invasion of my country always ends in the defeat of any coalition. Apparently, you have decided that the time has come to take away our lands? Or did you believe in the false statements of the US leadership that Russia needs Finland, the Baltic states and other European countries?
Yes, you yourself know that Russia does not need this. The conflict in Ukraine is the work of NATO, the United States and the European Union, which are actively reviving neo-Nazism. We, true Russians (and Russians are Tatars, and Chechens, and Bashkirs, and Ukrainians and other nations that live in Russia), it hurts that Ukraine has become a neo-Nazi state. We did not come there to kill and rob, as the US and NATO do in Syria and Iraq, in the former Yugoslavia and Libya, and many other countries. We came, as in the distant 1945, to destroy Nazism, which was so carefully nurtured by the United States and NATO.
Look at the map, find the NATO bases on it and you will see that the only target of NATO is Russia! Compare the military spending of all your countries and my country, compare the Russophobic hysteria in the media of your countries and the restrained and sometimes positive attitude of our media towards the peoples of your countries.
However, you probably really want to become the heirs of President Ryti, you want to fulfill the will of your masters from the United States, who are pushing your country into NATO, so that in the event of a nuclear conflict (God forbid!), It is the inner circle that received nuclear strikes first.
It is unfortunate that the authorities of Finland (not its people, because you decided to join NATO without the will of the Finnish people) decided to become an accomplice in the anti-Russian coalition again and once again try to destroy my country politically and physically. Once again, my country and people have received proof that not a single country in Western Europe has a historical memory, cannot be grateful for the acquired or restored freedom and independence. It is especially unfortunate that this is done by Finland, whose people have always been to my liking, and whose policy, until recently, I set as an example to many.
It is a pity that I made a mistake in your country.”
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willing to criticize. This letter will be mailed to the President, Prime Minister and Speaker of the Finnish Parliament on the day it appears on the Military Review website.
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