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2.2.1940. Church on fire after Soviet bombardment, Sortavala. Sortavala was ceded by Finland to Russia at the end of the Winter War, retaken by the Finns in 1941 and again ceded to Russia at the end of WWII. The Finnish Karelian population was evacuated to other parts of Finland in 1944 and the town was resettled by the Slavic population. “The bloody glow of burning Sortavala filled all the night for it was a typical Finnish town of wood.
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