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Karjala - Karelia


Kuotan suau karjalan kieldy ta karjalazii nägyvikse... I'm trying to get Karelian language and karelians visible

By: Kalevalian 17th July 2018

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A myth in Germany states that "German almost became official language of the USA". Actually there was a petition on having the laws written in German beside English, which was rejected by 1 vote.

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Sweden has an official Twitter account (@sweden) which is handed to a different citizen every week.

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6 years ago #9779129        
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But Karjala, didnt you understand? We were trying to Defend you, but if only you had Understood...

Tsuhna

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the Kinship wars were a sad chapter in our history, at one point Finnish government unofficially supported the invasion while the Karelians didn't want Finns there, then when at another point at least part of Karelia wanted to separate from Soviet Russia with Finnish help (some wanting independence while others apparently thought it would be better to join Finland, at least that's what I have read...) & the right-wing radicals of Finland wanted to help the government opposed the idea, then after the wars Stalin came to power & being his lovely paranoid self wasn't exactly kind to the Finnic groups on the North-Western frontier of USSR, then WWII did even more damage (lots of native Karelian speakers dead, the dialect continuum between Finnish and Karelian got severed by the evacuation of Finnish Karelians from Ladoga Karelia and Karelian Isthmus & Stalin's decision to populate the now depopulated area with Russian-speakers) & now Karelian language is in danger of dying out...

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Are you sure the character was not based on Arto Rinne from Myllärit? Looks like him.

Anyways, I've been wishing to see Karelia here for years!

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