karelia

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karelia

The darkest evening

  • Durbin, William
2004
In the 1930s, a young Finnish-American boy reluctantly moves with his family to Karelia, a communist-Finnish state founded in Russia, where his idealistic father soon realizes that his conception of a communist utopia is flawed.

They took my father

a story of idealism and betrayal
  • Sevander, Mayme
1992
Mayme and her family with other Finnish Americans migrated to Russia in 1934 with the promise of a worker's paradise.
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