Thread by @TallbarFIN

Attack by Russian partisans on the Finnish village of Seitajärvi in Savukoski in the summer of 1944 was one of the worst attacks against civilians of the entire war & an example of Russian brutality they are capable of.

❗WARNING contains very sensitive pictures of the victims❗

Destruction in the remote village of Seitajärvi was total on the morning of July 7, 1944. A Soviet partisan unit had carried out an attack hundreds of kilometers from the front line.

A village inhabited by civilians had been surprised in a perfectly bright summer night.

Several dozen partisans had navigated through the forests for days. Attack was carefully prepared & it was by no means the first partisan attack on civilian villages.

Throughout northern Finland, there was the same fear: russians could appear "out of nowhere".

Only a few people managed to escape, who ran for miles to the nearest house with a telephone. All hell broke loose. Help had to arrive soon.

The men of the Detatchment Sau, which specializes in Finnish amphibious and partisan hunting, left immediately towards Seitajärvi.

Finns found ten villagers, women and children, who had been captured a few kilometers from the village.

They had been shot from behind and stabbed with bayonets. Children, even babies, had been beaten to death with rifles. Women had been gang-raped.

Finns started chasing the Russians at high speed.

After about a day's fierce pursuit, combat contact was made with some of the partisans. It was a fierce battle in which some of the Russians were shot.

However, quite a number managed to escape in the end & were never caught.

Photographs of the murdered civilians were taken as evidence. For decades after the war, they were banned from publication in the archives of the Defence Forces due to their politically very sensitive nature.

Photos were taken as evidence of atrocities committed by the russians.

Youngest of those killed was a baby only a few months old

One of the children survived the mass execution. 8-year old girl, stabbed in the chest, pretended to be dead, but finally dared to open her eyes when the Finnish soldiers arrived

She was airlifted to hospital & survived.

The Seitajärvi tragedy stretched back decades.

Partisans had taken two young girls with them, who had been executed later when the Russians were fleeing from the Finns.

Their remains were only found years later and were blessed in Savukoski in 2008.

A week after the attack on Seitajärvi in July 1944, Soviet partisans attacked the village of Lokka, located a little further north, which had not been evacuated.

The village was burned and all 19 villagers were killed.

During the Continuation War, Russian partisans attacked & destroyed 28 Finnish villages.

Not a single Russian terrorist was ever convicted of these war crimes.

By the way, in this picture, you see few of the russian terrorists that committed the massacre in Seitajärvi. Russian scum that never faced the consequenses.

Leader of the Finnish partisan hunters, Olavi Alakulppi tried to convince UN war crimes comission after the war but in fear of new escalation of war Finland's leadership didn't give the classified evidence so there was not enough proof. He only had his own eyewitness testimony.

Vatniks will show more of this sick russian mentality in this thread when they find this.

Mark my words.