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Name: Karelian Isthmus
Location: Viborg,
Country: Russia
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Picture take by Risto Hurmalainen
| Risto Humalainen from Finland wrote: |
In June I also visited the Karelian
Isthmus and the city of Viborg, which of course used to belong to
Finland until the Russians took it over during the WW2. My family
and I lived in Viborg until 1939, when the Russians started the Winter
War and we had to leave our homes and move to the remaining part of
Finland.
I took the photo above on July 2, 2000, and the castle still
looks the same as in 1930's. We always think of it as the Finnish
castle as its building was started by the Finns under the Swedish regime
in 1293 to be the unconquerable fortification against Novgorod and the
Russian troops |
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