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I wonder if there’s anyone else here who thinks old finnish schlager (iskelmä) is wonderful? At the same time, I must add that I cannot stand 2000s iskelmämusic, with a few exceptions. And one more thing, don't judge me too harshly, im just stupid man who knows very little about these things. I really like 1930s-1950s finnish music. Islelmä then was different than know. If there someone else who likes and really old iskelmä, you a sense of the era,and I’ve always been fascinated by history, also the orchestra is really good, the singer is really good, and the music is beautiful, sad and emotional. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCW27QZMmMU

Skulls were taken around the world for racist racial studies—a trend that was the height of scientific fashion at the time. This was not new information, but I was surprised to learn that it was not until the summer of 2024 that Sweden returned the Finnish skulls that had been taken to Stockholm for racial research. Requests had been made several times over the years, yet the Swedes refused to return the Finnish skulls—even while loudly proclaiming that body parts taken for racial studies ought to be returned immediately and condemning the practice as racist.

In the early 20th century, some academics and Japanese media championed the "Ural-Altaic" language theory. Because both Finnish and Japanese are agglutinative languages that rely heavily on suffixes, many Japanese believed the two peoples were distantly related or even shared Asian roots. During the war, Japanese newspapers frequently wrote favorable articles about Finland, praising Finns for their fiercely heroic resistance against the Soviet Union during the Winter War.

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During the battles of Tornio, the Germans took more than 200 Finnish civilians hostage. A total of 232 Finnish civilians were threatened with execution unless German prisoners of war who had surrendered to finns during the fighting, were returned back to German side. The demand was delivered to the commander of the Finnish forces, He was Hjalmar Siilasvuo, who read the documents and give his answer. The Finns' reply was delivered very quickly to the German commander and it says : If anything happens to Finns or Finnish property, he will have all the German prisoners of war in her custody shot, as well as the staff and patients of the German military hospital in Tornio. The Germans were shocked and let the Finnish civilians go unharmed.

During the battles of Tornio, the Germans took more than 200 Finnish civilians hostage. A total of 232 Finnish civilians were threatened with execution unless German prisoners of war who had surrendered to finns during the fighting, were returned back to German side. The demand was delivered to the commander of the Finnish forces, He was Hjalmar Siilasvuo, who read the documents and give his answer. The Finns' reply was delivered very quickly to the German commander and it says : If anything happens to Finns or Finnish property, he will have all the German prisoners of war in her custody shot, as well as the staff and patients of the German military hospital in Tornio. The Germans were shocked and let the Finnish civilians go unharmed.

The battles in the Tornio 1944 saw both a tense hostage standoff and a drunken episode reminiscent of the out-of-control celebration followinf the capture of Petrozavodsk 1941.

One hundred German prisoners of war were in Finnish custody. Colonel General Lothar Rendulic, commander of German forces in Lapland, sought to back up his demand for the prisoners' release by taking 130 civilians hostage in Kemi and another 132 in Rovaniemi.

If the Finns did not release the Germans, Rendulic threatened to have the hostages shot.

The actions taken subsequently by the Finnish commander, Siilasvuo, could be viewed as either cool-headed or cold-blooded.

Siilasvuo refused to release the German prisoners. The response was conveyed to the Germans by Lieutenant Colonel Wolf Halsti, who warned that the execution of even a single Finn would result in the execution of all one hundred Germans. Furthermore, every German patient in the military hospital held by the Finns would be executed.

The volatile situation was defused when Germany released all the hostages. In a high-stakes standoff like this, a different outcome had also been possible.