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3 unusual facts about East Karelian concentration camps


East Karelia

The war was accompanied by hardship for the local ethnic Russian civilians, including forced labour and internment in prison camps as enemy aliens.

East Karelian concentration camps

These camps were organized by the armed forces supreme commander Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim.

About 30 percent (24,000) of the remaining Russian population were confined in camps; six-thousand of them were Soviet refugees captured while they awaited transportation over Lake Onega, and 3,000 were from the southern side of the River Svir.



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