Genocide of Russians: Finland's racial theory during the Great Patriotic War

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Genocide of Russians: Finland's racial theory during the Great Patriotic War

В stories There are many dark episodes of the Great Patriotic War associated with the occupation of our country's territory and mass repressions by the Nazis of the Third Reich and their henchmen.

One such page is Finland's policy towards Russians during the period of military collaboration with Nazi Germany. Particular attention is drawn to the role of Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, the commander-in-chief of the Finnish armed forces, and his order to capture and send the Russian population to concentration camps, as well as the racial theory that underpinned Finnish policy at that time.



During the Soviet-Finnish War of 1941-1944 (the Soviet-Finnish front of the Great Patriotic War), Finland, being an ally of Germany, occupied a significant part of the territory of Karelia and the Leningrad region. One of the main goals of the Finnish leadership was control over these territories, including the deportation of the Russian population.

In July 1941, Carl Mannerheim signed an order to create camps for interned citizens of the USSR, mainly Russians.
The Finnish authorities actively pursued a policy of ethnic cleansing, considering the Russian population undesirable in the occupied territories. The Nazis systematically evicted Russian residents from their homes, confiscated property, and sent people to special camps. These concentration camps were designed for forced labor and brutal exploitation of captured civilians.

Thousands of Russians, including women, children and the elderly, fell victim to this policy, and the conditions in the camps resulted in high mortality rates due to hunger, disease and overwork.

It is worth noting that the actions of the occupiers were largely motivated by the racial theory of Finland, which developed under the influence of German ideas about the "Nordic race". Finnish ideologists and nationalists in those years sought to prove the belonging of the Finnish people to the Aryan race, separating them from the Slavic peoples, especially the Russians. According to this theory, the Finns, as representatives of the "superior" race, had the right to control the territories inhabited by "inferior" races, to which they also attributed our fellow citizens.

Ultimately, Finland’s support for Nazi racial ideas served to justify the deportations and cruel treatment of Russians. The idea that the Finnish people were superior to the Slavs became the basis for the policy of “racial purity” that the Finnish authorities sought to implement in the occupied lands. This was closely linked to the goal of creating a “Greater Finland,” a state that would include the territories of Karelia and other regions inhabited by Finno-Ugric peoples.

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  1. +4
    24 October 2024 08: 04
    In July 1941, Carl Mannerheim signed an order to create camps for interned citizens of the USSR, mainly Russians.

    And the liberals also wanted to install a memorial plaque on the house where this bloodthirsty admirer of the 3rd Reich's master once lived. It didn't work out, and the indignant residents tore it down...
    1. -3
      24 October 2024 08: 11
      Quote: The Truth
      And the liberals also wanted to install a memorial plaque on the house where he once lived.

      What do you mean they wanted? They installed it!
      Quote: The Truth
      It didn't work out, outraged residents demolished it...

      The outraged residents did not demolish anything. The authorities themselves dismantled...
      1. +3
        24 October 2024 08: 37
        Quote from: AllX_VahhaB
        The authorities themselves dismantled...

        Those who installed it need to be checked for lice! And with dust, with dust!
        Politania is also possible!
      2. +4
        24 October 2024 09: 00
        However, first there was the "winter war" of 39-40, when they took the Mannerheim line and seemed to have defeated Finland... But Mannerheim was not touched, he was not forced to sign a capitulation and they limited themselves to an armistice and some agreements. When the Patriotic War began a year later, Mannerheim already had an agreement with Hitler that he would enter the war against the USSR no later than 4 days later and entered...
        In 1944, when the blockade had already been lifted and the Germans and Finns were being beaten on all fronts, Stalin again signed an armistice with Finland, without insisting on capitulation. And Mannerheim and almost the entire Nazi government found themselves in power as the President of Finland... if anyone didn't know... And Stalin tolerated all this, sanctioned it and didn't interfere, and why?
        Because thanks to this truce, about 600 thousand of our soldiers were released from the Finnish front, for the sake of a speedy defeat of Germany. There was no time to waste, separate negotiations with the Anglo-Saxons were already in full swing and everything was moving towards the fact that they could begin to strike at the USSR, containing the communist threat in Europe.
        And they wanted to carry out the same operation with Mannerheim as with the Romanian King Mihai, thanks to whom our troops passed through all of Romania without losses and, together with Tito, took Belgrade before they liberated Transcarpathia. And then, together with the Romanian army, they stormed Budapest and Prague. And by the way, after this truce, the Finnish army also fought with the Germans in the north, trying to drive them out of their territory or push them into Norway.
        But if Stalin awarded King Michael I the Order of Victory despite the order’s status, then Mannerheim was quietly forced out of power after the war and went to die in Switzerland.
        1. +3
          24 October 2024 09: 27
          I'm sitting and thinking... Could a similar story with Ukraine repeat itself, as happened with Finland?
          After Zeli, Zaluzhny will come to power, the same Nazi bastard as Mannerheim. And just like Mannerheim, he will be forced to agree to lose part of the territory. And not only the Karelian Isthmus in the first war, but also the northern territories with Petsamo (Pechenga) that we took away, depriving Finland of access to the Barents Sea after 45. If Stalin did not finish off the Finns and impose his socialism on them, then for Putin, this option is even more real than it was for Stalin then. We'll live and see....
          1. +1
            24 October 2024 16: 22
            Quote: Saburov_Alexander53
            I'm sitting and thinking... Could a similar story with Ukraine repeat itself, as happened with Finland?

            Finland after WWII and until recently was a neutral non-aligned state. Will it work out the same with Ukraine? Otherwise it makes no sense!
          2. +2
            25 October 2024 04: 31
            Stalin imposed his socialism on Finland. He forced it to have a good standard of living.
            That's why it's so funny that as soon as the Finns felt freedom, they immediately rejected peacefulness and a high standard of living in favor of the opportunity to cut the Russians.
            This destroys the myth that a high standard of living is a priority for peoples - this is not the case.
            And as a consequence, Finland is not needed, and those who do not want to become Russian in spirit there need to be driven out.
            1. 0
              25 October 2024 08: 20
              Stalin imposed his socialism on Finland. He forced it to have a good standard of living.

              You have an interesting version... But why couldn't he achieve such socialism and standard of living at home? Why did they feed and feed notorious enemies and Russophobes all over the periphery, and in 1944 the president and the government of Mannerheim were given significant humanitarian aid in the form of grain, sugar and butter, when in their own country all this was on ration cards?
              And this was when not all concentration camp prisoners had yet been released... That was the political price then, and all for the sake of removing 600 thousand soldiers from the Finnish front and transferring them to Poland and Prussia.
              1. +1
                25 October 2024 19: 05
                "You have an interesting version"
                This is not a version, this is a historical fact. The USSR had mandatory requirements that the Finns tried to violate and remain an aggressive fascist state.
                "socialism and standard of living at home"
                The USSR and Russia are the key countries of the planet, determining the architecture of the world order, the fulcrum. Unfortunately, we have a bad climate, extremely difficult logistics, and we need to resist the most powerful aggressive bloc on the planet.
                Personally, I am grateful to Stalin for the fact that I am alive. Not everyone understands what a miracle this is.
                1. 0
                  26 October 2024 06: 43
                  Personally, I am grateful to Stalin for the fact that I am alive.

                  A bit pompous, but honest... It's a pity that not everyone in our country can recognize Stalin's merit in this. More often, they thank their parents for this. Especially those who fell under the steamroller of repressions and did not survive in the camps.
                  1. 0
                    26 October 2024 19: 41
                    There is no need to break laws. There is no need to talk nonsense and say that everyone is so innocent.
                    1. 0
                      27 October 2024 07: 31
                      There is no need to talk nonsense and say that everyone is so innocent.

                      So I'm talking about those who really were like that... Or were all of your repressed people guilty? And tell me that there were only a few of them...
                      1. 0
                        27 October 2024 13: 56
                        I think that basically there were quite guilty people there, and it was a time when everyone had to be built. They built successfully and won the war, without it - they would have lost.
                      2. 0
                        28 October 2024 09: 39
                        without this, we would have lost.
                        Or maybe, on the contrary, they would not have allowed such a rout of their army at the beginning of the war? Of course, victory covers everything and gives you the right to think so and adhere to the saying - "When you chop down a forest, chips fly." Rokossovsky did not have time to turn into a "chip" and was released from sticky paws... And how many such commanders and officers were destroyed with their own hands simply on denunciation or for the slightest criticism on the merits. The army was simply bled dry before the war and until they got their lumps in the battles before 42, they got the result of that internal slaughter.
                        And about "mostly quite guilty", this is something new in jurisprudence. I would like to apply this concept to you....
                      3. 0
                        28 October 2024 16: 48
                        You are clearly a theoretician and have not encountered real large projects. The fact that we survived is a simple miracle (lucky that the Germans are degenerates with clumsy hands) and the result of a lot of work.
                        As a child, I thought like you, but after participating in major communist projects, I began to idolize them.
                      4. 0
                        29 October 2024 08: 22
                        Nikita: Do you know how all my arguments and disputes with the Stalinists ended?
                        All of them, without exception, are primarily (!!!) guilty of all the troubles in the country every head of state up until the present. And only Stalin is your exception, where anyone is guilty - Zinoviev, Kamenev, Radek, Trotsky, Blucher, Tukhachevsky, Yakir, Yagoda, Yezhov and thousands of others who had previously licked the leader's tonsils, but Stalin is not guilty... He did not know, he was deceived and other childish babble.
                        You're doing something interesting.
                      5. 0
                        29 October 2024 12: 12
                        I'm just saying that you reason like a child. On an emotional level, without understanding the real structure of the world and the importance of a scientific approach.
          3. +1
            27 October 2024 08: 53
            I'm sitting and thinking... Could a similar story with Ukraine repeat itself, as happened with Finland?

            God forbid that it should happen again, and it cannot happen again,
            1. because the history of Ukraine is the history of Russia itself, and the history of Finland is the history of defeated Sweden.
            2. There has already been a period of hetmanate in the history of Russia and Ukraine. This period is well known in Russia. Therefore, Russia will certainly not want to receive a second hetmanate.
            1. 0
              27 October 2024 09: 15
              Pravdodel(ppp), I understand you and dream of the same..!. But do you think that among our people in those times, someone could have imagined that the Great Stalin and the Red Army would not force the vile Finns to capitulate and would not punish the main criminal Mannerheim?
              But they didn't punish him after the "Winter War" or after the Great Patriotic War... and they didn't even change the government there, putting communists at the helm... But they wanted to and were already taking Kuusinen there... they didn't get him there, and they rolled him back, not wanting to quarrel with England and France, who were already landing troops on ships to help the Finns.
              And here is the question: - Will Putin roll back, limiting himself to what has been achieved, when NATO troops move into Ukraine. If Stalin rolled back... I hope the situation is not completely mirrored and Putin has more arguments in the current situation.
              And I know your argument that Finland is a fragment of Sweden and has always had a special position in the Russian Empire. This special position was so significant that Lenin calmly tore it away in the hope of a quick World Revolution. And when it failed specifically in Finland, they had to "bite their elbows" and at least correct the border on the Karelian Isthmus.
              1. +1
                27 October 2024 09: 41
                Will Putin roll back, limiting himself to what has been achieved, when NATO troops move into Ukraine?

                Yes, this is indeed a very serious question, and the answer to it should also be serious. Taking into account the history of Russia, I hope, I really hope, that Russia will not want to get a second hetmanate... And the fact that in Ukraine there will be a hetmanate, if Russia does not finally sort things out with Ukraine, does not raise any doubts. This is confirmed by the entire history of Russia and the history of relations between Russia and Poland, with the only difference that now it will not only be the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, but also an Anglo-Saxon military base = an Anglo-Saxon spear, sharpened deep into Russian territory.
                Russia dealt with Poland, but then it had to fight with Europe in the person of England and France throughout the 17th-19th centuries (the war with Turkey, the first Caucasian war). If we do not want such a repetition of history, but in worse conditions for Russia: with the Hetman's Ukraine and the military bases of the Anglo-Saxons in Ukraine, then it is necessary to deal with Ukraine immediately and finally. Therefore, only a complete and final victory for Russia and a complete and final capitulation of the Ukrainian fascist regime will ensure conditions for the normal existence of Russia in the south, limit Poland's influence and weaken its pressure on Belarus.
                1. 0
                  27 October 2024 10: 02
                  Pravdodel, the layout is clear and everyone and everywhere is talking about it... on every talk show and on TV. But why, every now and then, suspicions about all sorts of deals slip through, and we hear thoughts about how to change and arrange power in Ukraine, after the end of the SVO, even if there is a capitulation.
                  And in such conversations it is no longer asserted that we will reach the borders with NATO in Ukraine, but are ready for a change of government and subsequent denazification by their forces. And here I have great doubts that this denazification can be done without our military contingent and bases along the border with NATO. But no one openly mentions this and hence all sorts of doubts and suspicions, will it not turn out like with Finland. There were also all sorts of agreements and demands that began to be violated when the ink was not yet dry... And even our naval base in Hanko, which we received after the "Winter War", did not help, and a year later the Finns attacked. Everyone remembers and talks about this option... And on the other hand, there is an axiom that "history teaches nothing and everything repeats itself."
                  1. +1
                    27 October 2024 10: 09
                    the situation is clear and everyone is talking about it everywhere... on every talk show and on TV.

                    Dear Saburov_Alexander53, I have never seen, not even from a single screen stub, that what I wrote above was discussed anywhere. Anything is discussed, but nowhere is what will happen to Ukraine if Russia does not finish its job. And I know about such an impossible end, and now you do too. Maybe someone else will find out and a discussion will arise about the future of Ukraine in each of the possible cases of its future existence: in the case of our complete and final victory and in the case of our unfinished war.
                    1. 0
                      27 October 2024 10: 22
                      Pravdodel, my dear comrade! The thing is that as soon as such a discussion begins on any talk show, the hosts of these programs (Soloviev, Babayan, Norkin, Kulikov, Pushkov, Skobeeva, etc.) immediately cut off any deep reasoning by referring to a quote from the President about the goals of the SVO -demilitarization and denazification.
                      But this becomes more like a spell, rather than an objective analysis of how to achieve this goal, if other quotes immediately follow that we do not need territory and are open to negotiations.
                      I also really hope that such quotes are a common thing in a propaganda war and nothing more. And everything will be decided on the battlefield and with the capitulation of the enemy and referendums on the entry into Russia of not only the Left Bank with Kiev, but also Transcarpathia.
                      1. +1
                        27 October 2024 16: 04
                        Dear Saburov_Alexander53, propaganda should act in the direction indicated by the president: demilitarization and denazification. Everything else is idle talk and the opinions of analysts, of which there are now, oh, so many. It's like in football: everyone knows how to play and win and is ready to give advice, but for some reason they don't let you out on the field... So it is here. It's good that there is a channel on TV where analysts and all sorts of experts can get together and shout. It is better to do this together in a studio or in a hall, rather than on the street in a crowd. But with all the mass of experts, not one of them, except for you and me, has yet talked about possible options for the existence of Ukraine. And I believe this is right. When our army crosses the Don and enters the operational space on the right-bank Ukraine, then we will be able to talk about the future of Ukraine. But now it is premature. One thing is clear, and the president, not an expert, but the president constantly says this: there can be no NATO in Ukraine by definition. From here, taking into account the history of Russia, you can draw a conclusion about the future of Ukraine.
                      2. 0
                        28 October 2024 10: 01
                        If we ignore your typo with Don, then I see complete mutual understanding between us. But many political scientists are still trying to start a discussion about Ukraine after the SVO. I will name you Yusin or the funny Vakarov in a jiffy... You simply did not pay attention or do not watch these programs. Thank you for the discussion.
        2. +1
          25 October 2024 04: 28
          Technically, Finland attacked on June 21, 1941, when it sent a detachment to blow up the White Sea Canal facilities.
          1. 0
            25 October 2024 08: 39
            Technically, Finland attacked on June 21, 1941.

            Technically, our intelligence received information from an informant in the Finnish government that at a meeting between Mannerheim and the Germans in early June 1941, the date of the start of the war between Germany and the USSR was announced - June 22. And 40 minutes later, Molotov, Beria and Stalin had this information. Our resident Yelisey Sinitsyn, whose informant gave out this date, was called in for a personal report. But after reporting as part of this trio of leaders, Stalin did not believe it and offered confirmation of the date from other sources. And such sources repeatedly confirmed this date. But after the catastrophic defeat of the leadership of foreign intelligence and the great loss of the agent network in Europe, Stalin was in no hurry to believe the remaining "enemies of the people", and Molotov nodded in agreement, fearing for his own ass... his wife was already in the camp
        3. 0
          26 October 2024 16: 10
          You wrote beautifully, Stalin knew what he was doing, he achieved his goal and even Finland dragged Lapland into the war in 1944. Michal received the Order of Victory, the Order of the Red Banner and a sports plane. The Romanians fought bravely, only during the liberation of Czechoslovakia 20 Romanian soldiers died, as well as more than 000 Red Army soldiers. Stalin was a military leader and a strategist. am
          1. 0
            27 October 2024 07: 43
            That's what I'm talking about! It's just that many people here are perplexed as to why Stalin didn't finish off the Finns and didn't even touch Mannerheim for all his crimes with the Leningrad blockade. Or they are wildly surprised as to how it happened that Belgrade was liberated before the rest of Ukraine. And how many people know that Romanian troops took part in the assaults on Budapest and Prague? And then we can continue and ask about Bulgaria, Hitler's ally... Does anyone know about such joint participation of the Bulgarian army when it defected from Hitler?
            And the fact that Stalin was a great strategist does not cancel or justify him for unjustified repressions and errors in assessing intelligence reports. And then we can say that he who ... and so on, does not make mistakes.
    2. +4
      24 October 2024 08: 33
      Quote: The Truth
      In July 1941, Carl Mannerheim signed an order to create camps for interned citizens of the USSR, mainly Russians.

      And the liberals also wanted to install a memorial plaque on the house where this bloodthirsty admirer of the 3rd Reich's master once lived. It didn't work out, and the indignant residents tore it down...

      This is not enough. The Prosecutor General's Office should collect all the materials on the crimes of Finnish fascists during WWII and officially charge Finland with genocide of Russian and other peoples. Yes
      The whole world must know that the Finns are fascists.
      1. +2
        24 October 2024 16: 24
        Quote: Bearded
        The whole world must know that the Finns are fascists.

        And who is the whole world? Just the whole Western and not only Europe, are exactly the same fascists! And one crow will not peck out another crow's eye...
    3. 0
      27 October 2024 08: 45
      Why bother? I would just hang another board next to it with detailed adventures of Mannerheim after 1917!
  2. -2
    24 October 2024 08: 10
    No one has destroyed Russians more than the Russians themselves. In general, the policy of genocide of the Russian and Russian-speaking population continues to this day. Both from the external and internal sides.
    1. 0
      24 October 2024 08: 19
      Quote: Gankutsu_
      No one has destroyed the Russians more than the Russians themselves.

      So it would be possible to install a memorial plaque for every famous fascist:
      1. +1
        24 October 2024 08: 35
        Quote from: AllX_VahhaB
        Quote: Gankutsu_
        No one has destroyed the Russians more than the Russians themselves.

        So it would be possible to install a memorial plaque for every famous fascist:

        This plaque is missing the word NOT before the word GOOD. Yes
      2. -1
        24 October 2024 08: 42
        Quote from: AllX_VahhaB
        Quote: Gankutsu_
        No one has destroyed the Russians more than the Russians themselves.

        So it would be possible to install a memorial plaque for every famous fascist:

        Again comrade in Budenovka with his wet dream
        Quote from: AllX_VahhaB
        install a memorial plaque for every famous fascist

        Be careful not to shoot yourself from the effort, like Paulus' son did in 1970 after his 1000th unsuccessful attempt to rehabilitate his father.
        1. -1
          24 October 2024 13: 09
          laughing You even stopped understanding the meaning of the written text...
          And you also say that emoticons are unnecessary for you... You need to put tags after each phrase: here is sarcasm, and here is only satire... wink
          1. -2
            24 October 2024 14: 09
            Quote from: AllX_VahhaB
            You even stopped understanding the meaning of the written text...

            Well, you know everything, by the way, isn't your name Google?

            Quote from: AllX_VahhaB
            And you also say that emoticons are unnecessary for you... You need to put tags after each phrase: here is sarcasm, and here is only satire...

            It's okay if you don't like me, not everyone has good taste.
            1. +2
              24 October 2024 16: 07
              Quote: Clear
              It's okay if you don't like me, not everyone has good taste.

              I only use like/dislike categories for people I know personally. Avatars with shallow comments don't evoke any emotions in me. request
              1. 0
                24 October 2024 16: 19
                Quote from: AllX_VahhaB
                Quote: Clear
                It's okay if you don't like me, not everyone has good taste.

                I only use like/dislike categories for people I know personally. Avatars with shallow comments don't evoke any emotions in me. request

                Now I don’t need the punishment of knowing you personally.
                Now it's clear why people who know you personally have pushed you to avatars with narrow-minded comments winked
        2. -1
          24 October 2024 13: 12
          Quote: Clear
          with your wet

          Quote: Clear
          from straining

          By the way, where does this fixation on physiology come from? Is it something personal? wassat
          1. -2
            24 October 2024 14: 11
            Quote from: AllX_VahhaB
            Quote: Clear
            with your wet

            Quote: Clear
            from straining

            By the way, where does this fixation on physiology come from? Is it something personal? wassat

            Ah, my dear, don't be too persistent in asking about my life. It may turn out to be so interesting that you will be disappointed in yours.
            1. 0
              24 October 2024 16: 09
              Quote: Clear
              It may turn out to be so interesting that you will become disappointed in yours.

              Have you really been to Antarctica? belay
              Ah... sorry, you're probably talking about physiology again...
              1. -1
                24 October 2024 16: 29
                Quote from: AllX_VahhaB
                Have you really been to Antarctica?

                Sure. Show me the way? You'll walk to the end of Africa, and then straight down... Yes

                Quote from: AllX_VahhaB
                Ah... sorry, you're probably talking about physiology again...

                Well, now the guy from Soryan is stuck on physiology, just like he was not far from quoting from Capital.
    2. +3
      24 October 2024 08: 33
      As soon as there is even a hint of an external threat, a counter wave of "they are the same, it's their own fault" immediately begins. It's an axiom))
    3. +4
      24 October 2024 08: 50
      Gankutsu is where you found out that "until now" what hospital are you in?
  3. +1
    24 October 2024 09: 17
    It was always interesting why the USSR did not promote the topic of Finland’s war crimes during the Great Patriotic War, and did not force them to pay compensation to victims of war crimes in addition to war reparations.
    1. +3
      24 October 2024 10: 26
      Because the USSR did not need a revanchist country next door. Stalin wanted to separate himself from the Western "democracies" with a belt of neutral states - Finland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy and Greece respectively. Let them live in capitalism, but not gather armies for another "Drang nach Osten", but earn their capitalist profits through trade and transit with the USSR. But unfortunately, the Americans turned out to be even more cynical and ruthless than they look.
      1. 0
        1 November 2024 19: 00
        But unfortunately, the Americans turned out to be even more cynical and ruthless, what do they look like.

        they "look" - exactly like "every penny of money"...
        It's a different matter for us: snot-nosed ones - at "someone else's expense"...
        i.e. we, the ones writing here, are responsible for the decisions made...
  4. 0
    24 October 2024 22: 06
    Our borders are full of Nazis. Finns - obviously, Great Suomi. Then - the Balts. Germans. Poles. Dancers. It's terrible what kind of neighbors we have. And all of them, without exception, also have an inferiority complex. sad
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  6. 0
    26 October 2024 08: 41
    That is, Karlusha, when the going got tough, left the alliance with Germany. The cunning beaver. But why didn't Stalin punish him? He should have.
  7. 0
    1 November 2024 18: 55
    One of such pages is Finland's policy towards Russians during the period of military collaboration with Nazi Germany.

    You could better describe the genocide of the Russian population in Finland in the period 1917-1919.
    everyone is silent about this...