Andropov and Karelia

Authors

  • Alexander Vasilyevich Labudin North-West Institute of Management, Branch of RANEPA Автор
  • Alexander Ivanovich Kirjanen Saint-Petersburg State University Автор
  • Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Samodurov North-West Institute of Management, Branch of RANEPA Автор

Keywords:

karelia, Ingermanland, great Patriotic War, Second World War, repatriation, repressions, expulsion, heroism, the studying of national languages, the party and soviet state bodies, forest exploitation, timber cutting

Abstract

The main events of the eminent statesman Juriy Andropov's ruling in Karelian-Finnish SSR (1940-1951) are discussed in this article. The decisions of J.Andropov and other Karelian-Finnish leaders (mainly G.Kuprijanov - the first secretary of CK CP KF SSR at that time), directed to the defense of interests of Karelians, Vepses, Finns are analysied also. The problem of the repatriation of Ingermanland Finns to Karelian-Finnish SSR is discussed too. This people were repressed during and immediately after the Second World War according of far-fetched charges with a crime. This problem is discussed in connection with difficult and tragic history of Ingermanland Finns people. The authors draw some actual conclusions for temporary state policy.

Published

2017-07-15

Issue

No. 4 (2017)

Section

Articles