Abstract
This chapter examines the specificity of the monumental memorialization of World War II in Karelia. It sets out to answer the following questions: how did policy on the memory of the Great Patriotic War influence the remembering and/or the forgetting of the Winter War and the erasure of the image of Finland as the occupier of Karelia from officially constructed memory? And, later, how was the break with the Soviet past in the early 1990s reflected in monumental memorialization of World War II in this region? The chapter draws on a variety of sources, including official documents from the National Archives of the Republic of Karelia, the local press, and surveys conducted with the local population.
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Antoshchenko, A.V., Volokhova, V.V., Shtykova, I.S. (2017). War Memorials in Karelia: A Place of Sorrow or Glory?. In: Fedor, J., Kangaspuro, M., Lassila, J., Zhurzhenko, T. (eds) War and Memory in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus . Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66523-8_16
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