This is a pine forest in the Karelian Isthmus, land strategically located near St Petersburg that has been the subject of two 20th C. wars between Finland and Russia.The struggle there foreshadowed what was to come in Ukraine in 2014. From our next report: look.substack.com 
Soviet tanks and casualties in the Winter War with Finland, 1939-40. The Russian land grab in Ukraine in 2014 is just a re-run of the Soviet land grab in Finland. "There is nothing new under the sun."
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Modern day images of the Karelian Isthmus, the contested land of the Winter War ('39-'40) between Finland and the Soviet Union. Last photo is an old bunker from the war.
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[Ludvig 14, Ninaras]
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These are Finnish volunteers who come onto the Karelian Isthmus, now the territory of Russia, to tend Finnish graves from the '39-'40 Winter War. Our afternoon report notes that Finnish activists will not let this matter rest. The loss of land to Russia is a sore point with many.
Tracer fire on the Soviet-Finnish border at the start of the Winter War, 1939. While much of the war was fought in snowy woods, an artillery war took place in the SE.
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Who suffers in war? First photo, Ukrainian kids displaced by the conflict in eastern Ukraine. Second photo, Finnish kids and their moms forced out of their homes in eastern Finland. 400,000 Finns were displaced in 1940. 500,000 Ukrainians have been displaced since 2014.
