Back atcha (Back at you): Happy New Year to all our Finnish friends!

Same to you from Pennsylvania.

Today was Tammisunnuntai in Finland (January Sunday)


Tammisunnuntai – Wikipedia

January Sundays are celebrated annually on the last Sunday of January to commemorate the start of the Finnish War of Independence . Originally, the designation meant Sunday, January 27, 1918, when the war is considered to have started. [1]

The Southern Ostrobothnia protectorates were supposed to start disarming Russian soldiers in South Ostrobothnia at 3 o'clock on the night before Monday , January 28, 1918. [2] In the morning of the same day, the Red Guards took over the cities of southern Finland. In Laihia, however, the men started disarming the Russian Hulmi garrison already on Sunday evening, January 27. There is a monument erected in memory of the Battle of Hulmi , which also has the names of the men from Laihia who died during the disarmament. [2] January 23, 1918 has also been considered the beginning of disarmament , when Russian soldiers were disarmed on a smaller scale in Karelia . [3]

The background was that the Russian Council of People's Commissars had recognized Finland's independence , but Russian troops were still in Finland despite the Senate's request. In this case, Mannerheim took the initiative and began to draw up a plan with his officers to disarm the Russian garrisons in Ostrobothnia. [4]

In 2017, the incident was made into a documentary film Tammysûnntai 1918 , which was part of the official Suomi 100 program. It premiered on November 17, 2017 at the Filmia ja valoa festival. [5]

The traditional organizations of the whites have cherished the memory of January Sunday by organizing celebrations almost every year throughout Finland's independence, with the exception of a few years after the wars [3] . Especially in Ostrobothnia, the holiday is in force.

CGE Mannerheim , the commander-in-chief of the Whites who led the disarmament of the Russians in Ostrobothnia, also died by chance on a January Sunday in 1951

Sweden's membership is finally a reality

Together we are stronger - 32 allies
#WeAreNATO





reuters.com

"NATO Sea." The Sea of NATO....

I like that!

Every Finn knows there are thousands of Russians in Finland. Most are underground.

Are they a for Finland or with Puti?

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They're fertilizer.

Finnish General Adolf Ehrnrooth was visiting England in the 1970's. English general asked him how many Soviet troops were stationed in Finland.
- A few hundred thousand, Ehrnrooth replied.
- Where are they stationed?
- Two metres deep under ground all along our Eastern border.

When I say the below meme I thought of this thread . Don

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Our neighbour is now also ally




Sweden joins ‘Nato lake’ on Moscow’s doorstep
Sweden joins ‘Nato lake’ on Moscow’s doorstep

It’s our first anniverasry as NATO member



Thanks allies, never again alone

Without the knowledge we learned from the Winter War,
the 87th Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division, might not have happened.
Thanks to Finland for that.

"Climb to Glory"
Climb to Glory: The Legacy of the 10th Mountain Ski Troopers - YouTube


Then there's Matti Nykänen.

Silk flag my Dad and his buddies all carried.
Warm day at Camp Hale.

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So; how's the Putin plan to reduce NATO going?

We should have been allies already in 1939 against the Soviet Union