Finnish War Veterans Interview Project

The plan is to interview, on film or audio tape, 100+ Finnish veterans of the wars 1939-1945. This would include Lottas and children of the war. Then the text of the interviews will be used to create a book that will tell these veteran's stories. Where possible, the effort will be to get pictures of the veterans, both today, and as they were during the war, to put into the book. There may be a possibility of using some of the veterans interviews in a dvd but this part of the project is still under consideration.

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[misterbill1911]

Fantastic project idea. The Winter War was a horrible struggle on both sides. Did you ever have the pleasure of speaking at any length with Simo Hayha while he was alive? I am working on a screenplay about Hayha and trying to make it about not just his deeds, but who he was as a person, and place things in the larger context of the Winter War.

[uncleavi2002]

Poor Communists VS Sisu. Sisu wins!

[bisleybob3]

what a lovely tune. respects to your video , nice compilation.

[vikdon1]

Гарна музика!!!

[BasicModelling]

Quite interesting..

[granskare]

cool video :)

[UnclePutte]

It's a parodic song about the Russo-Japanese war of 1904 and Russia's rather... um... embarassing performance in it. As Finland was still under Russian occupation, the news of Japanese success were received with quite a bit of enthusiasm back then.

[ospehu1]

Sen mitä olen kuullut isoisältäni ennen hänen kuolemaansa ( isoisäni oli mukana mm. tornion maihinnousussa) niissä tappeluissa oli leikki kaukana!

[whiff1962]

Very cheery song, that must have been a great morale booster for Finland's brave fighting men!

[TheRoopeKonna]

Oltais hävitty ellei oltais lopetettu saksan avustamine lapissa niissä leikkitappeluissa.