Juhannus (Midsummer) 1950's

Monument to fallen Finnish soldiers goes missing in Käkisalmi

Käkisalmi is a Finnish town on the Karelian isthmus that was ceded to the Soviet Union.

The monument was erected in 2019. Carved on its sides are the names of the fallen local Finnish soldiers. The years 1939-1945 are carved on the front of the monument. This reflects the Russian version of how the years should be marked. In reality, the Winter War was fought from 1939 to 1940, and the Continuation War from 1941 until 1944.

Screenshots of letters from local administrative authorities have been circulated on Russian social media, urging them to report monuments to citizens of "unfriendly countries" in the Leningrad region. Allegedly, a representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs requested information about the monuments urgently.

This could be continuation to the demolition of the monument to fallen Finnish soldiers in Koivisto. According to the Ilta-Sanomat article, the removal of a monument in Kirvu is currently ongoing. Many Finnish war memorials on the ceded territory have also been vandalised with nazi symbols.

Brick making in the city of Pori in Finland. Photographed by Kustaa Emil Klint. 1910-1939.

Source: https://finna.fi/Record/satakunnanmuseo.15977E94-053D-447C-9C8F-0C15C034A372

Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Tallinn, Estonia

Estonian vintage postcard, mailed to Helsinki, Finland

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Interior with Ida in a White Chair, Vilhelm Hammershøi, 1900

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Botanical prints taken from ‘Botanica in originali’ by Johann Hieronymus Kniphof.

Published 1758 by Joannis Godofredi Trampe.

Harvard University Botany Libraries.

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W. Kandinsky, Rotterdam Sun, 1906

Two men wearing seaweed on a beach. photographed by Kustaa Emil Klint. 1910-1939 Pori, Finland.

source: https://finna.fi/Record/satakunnanmuseo.33717D18-A6E6-4DC7-A095-A22CAB1E9757?lng=en-gb&imgid=1