Staunton, January 14 – Between 1917 and 1953, the vast majority of the 400,000 Finns, Karels and Ingermanlanders living outside of Finland but within the Russian Federation disappeared, with many of them presumed to have been killed as a result of Soviet policies. The Finnish government has now announced that it plans to investigate their fates.
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Paul Goble: Helsinki to investigate fate of Finns who died in Stalin era
A picture taken on August 5, 2018 shows a grave of a person killed in 1937 in the Sandarmokh, a memorial site in a pine forest in the Karelia region, at the Russian and Finnish border, where mass graves from the 1930's and bodies from 1940's have been found.
