Current Moscow Time: 14:43:5119 May 2013
The world’s biggest country, in a magazine. Since 1956.
Soviet Karelia
Author: Irene Woodhead
Russian Life: July/Aug 2009
Department: Features
Page: 34 ( 8) pages
Summary: Eighty years ago, thousands of Finns who had emigrated to America were convinced to return east, to create a new, Finnish homeland in the Soviet Republic of Karelia. Things did not work out exactly as planned.
This article appeared in the July/Aug 2009 issue of Russian Life. The text of this article is not available online.
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- A Frozen Hell The definitive book on the Soviet-Finnish War.