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I am a Swede who first learned of the Finnish Civil War when I read Väinnö Linna's novel triology "Under The North Star" (which I liked a lot). I was mesmerized
by mongol 5y ago
I am a Swede who first learned of the Finnish Civil War when I read Väinnö Linna's novel triology "Under The North Star" (which I liked a lot). I was mesmerized and could not understand why I never learned about it before. I think in Sweden we have very poor knowledge of our eastern brotherly people's history despite being one country for over 400 years. This thread has helped me learn more about it. Thank you Finns!
- DavidVoid 5y agoAlso a Swede and I don't think we learned much at all about pre-WW2 Finland. We mainly learned about the Winter and Continuation War and the many Finnish war children that ended up in Sweden [1]. I remember one of them visiting our school to speak about his childhood. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_war_children https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_war_children