Visiting Lotta Museum

A week ago I read Sharon's touching post about tracing her fathers World War II footsteps in Europe.

That inspired me to publish my photos of one of our wartime museums -

The Lotta Museum in Tuusula. This impressive modern museum concentrates

totally in presenting how women - called lottas - helped in our Winter and Continuation wars, 

both in the war zone and the home front.

The Lotta museum is located in a beautiful rural setting, about 40 km from Helsinki. 

On the property there used to be a beautiful old villa that burned down in the 40's. 

This beautiful building in old style was built in 1995 to host the Lotta Museum.

Women played an active role during our Winter and Continuation Wars. 

The Lotta Organization was a women’s voluntary civil defence organization that operated 

from 1921 to 1944. In wartime lottas carried out catering, medical and air surveillance duties 

in the war zone. Their work was of utter importance.

The Lotta museum was impressive. It uses the latest digital technology, audio-video, 

huge enlarged photos & all kind of relics from wartime. 

One could easily spend there many hours examining the details. 

As you may know Finland lost and we had to hand over big parts of Karelia 
to The Soviet Union. There were about half a million Karelians that had to be settled 
in other parts of Finland - both my mother’s and father’s families among them. 
These Karelians who lost their homes were called evakko. 
Evakko’s Song / Youtube presents touching old photos of people leaving their homes 
around summer solstice 1941.

Now and then it is good to remember the history - and be grateful being able to live 

in a free & independent country.  The video underneath - Regional Anthem of Karelia -

shows modern young Finnish people & beautiful views, also of Imatra waterfall, 

a city where I was born.

The anthem tells that Karelia has an abundance of song. And that is true:

Our national epic Kalevala (first published in 1849) is based on Karelian poems.

There used to be a lively folkloristic poem singing / keen chanting tradition among Karelians.

https://lyricstranslate.com/en/karjalaisten-laulu-regional-anthem-karelia-song-karelians-regional-anthem-karel.html

n our sweet Finland

Is there a land more dear

Than our beautiful Karelia

Great homeland of song!

The roaring rapids are singing

The wildwood are full of tunes

Wuthering of ancient trees

We have no wealth

Our land is not fertile

But we have an abundance of song

It grows without sowing

It won't be fucked by the Eastern frost

Or the cold spells of the North

Oppression can not bring it down

It won't be beaten by the hail

Oppression can not bring it down

It won't be beaten by the hail

When persecution

Afflicts our Finland

Then poor Karelia

turns Finland's sorrows into song

And when the happy dawn

Breaks upon Finland

Then a great joyful music

Will ring out from Karelia!

And when the happy dawn

Breaks upon Finland

Then a great joyful music

Will ring out from Karelia!

https://lyricstranslate.com/en/karjalaisten-laulu-regional-anthem-karelia-song-karelians-regional-anthem-karel.html

In our sweet Finland

Is there a land more dear

Than our beautiful Karelia

Great homeland of song!

The roaring rapids are singing

The wildwood are full of tunes

Wuthering of ancient trees

We have no wealth

Our land is not fertile

But we have an abundance of song

It grows without sowing

It won't be fucked by the Eastern frost

Or the cold spells of the North

Oppression can not bring it down

It won't be beaten by the hail

Oppression can not bring it down

It won't be beaten by the hail

When persecution

Afflicts our Finland

Then poor Karelia

turns Finland's sorrows into song

And when the happy dawn

Breaks upon Finland

Then a great joyful music

Will ring out from Karelia!

And when the happy dawn

Breaks upon Finland

Then a great joyful music

Will ring out from Karelia!

In our sweet Finland
Is there a land more dear
Than our beautiful Karelia
Great homeland of song!
The roaring rapids are singing
The wildwood are full of tunes
Wuthering of ancient trees

We have no wealth
Our land is not fertile
But we have an abundance of song
It grows without sowing
It won't be fucked by the Eastern frost
Or the cold spells of the North
Oppression can not bring it down
It won't be beaten by the hail
Oppression can not bring it down
It won't be beaten by the hail

When persecution
Afflicts our Finland
Then poor Karelia
turns Finland's sorrows into song
And when the happy dawn
Breaks upon Finland
Then a great joyful music
Will ring out from Karelia!
And when the happy dawn
Breaks upon Finland

Then a great joyful music

Will ring out from Karelia!


❤︎❤︎❤︎

// MAKROTEX, Kesäkuu - June 
Osallistun melkein aina kukkakuvilla, ja niitäkin olisi vaikka kuinka.
Mutta kerrankin toisenlaisella postauksella. Minusta imatralaisen Osmo's Cosmosin
Karjalaisten laulun moderni tulkinta on upea - joten suosittelen!
 
// ALL SEASONS

// MOSAIC MONDAY
// FOTO-TUNES
// IMAGE-IN-ING

https://lyricstranslate.com/en/karjalaisten-laulu-regional-anthem-karelia-song-karelians-regional-anthem-karel.html

In our sweet Finland

Is there a land more dear

Than our beautiful Karelia

Great homeland of song!

The roaring rapids are singing

The wildwood are full of tunes

Wuthering of ancient trees

We have no wealth

Our land is not fertile

But we have an abundance of song

It grows without sowing

It won't be fucked by the Eastern frost

Or the cold spells of the North

Oppression can not bring it down

It won't be beaten by the hail

Oppression can not bring it down

It won't be beaten by the hail

When persecution

Afflicts our Finland

Then poor Karelia

turns Finland's sorrows into song

And when the happy dawn

Breaks upon Finland

Then a great joyful music

Will ring out from Karelia!

And when the happy dawn

Breaks upon Finland

Then a great joyful music

Will ring out from Karelia!