Finland is trying to take back Karelia

Finland is trying to form an “extremist national guard”, according to Nikolaj Patrushev.

The goal should be to take Karelia back.

– They seek confrontation with our country, says Putin’s close associate.

The collective West has long tried to draw Finland into its anti-Russian campaign, says Nikolaj Patrushev to the Russian state-controlled news agency Interfax.

The secretary of the Russian Security Council says that it was mainly about the “Karelian issue” and refers to the part of western Karelia that Finland was forced to give up to the Soviet Union when the peace treaty was concluded in Paris in 1947.

Now he claims that Finland is trying to take the area back.

– Right now, the policy of the Finnish leadership, fueled by their overseers in Washington, is destroying the good neighborly relations between Russia and Finland that were established after the defeat of fascist Germany. A deliberate course of confrontation with our country has once again been taken. Obviously, the lessons of the past have not been learned, he says.

“Always tried to make Karelia Russian”

According to the Secretary of the Security Council, Finland has “activities for right-wing extremist organizations that demand the return of territories lost during the Second World War”:

– Work has been intensified to stimulate separatist sentiments. In Karelia, extremist views are spread on social media, information about plans to create a nationalist battalion in Karelia, including citizens of Finland, he says.

Patrushev has not specified which organization it is about.

Howl has previously reported on Finnish activists who hope that Karelia will become an independent republic and break away from Russia.

– Russia has always tried to make Karelia Russian. Everything has been done to destroy the culture, historical facts and events of Karelia. Even the names have been changed, activist Kuznetsov told the TV channel in June.