Between East and West | History of Karelia - Countryballs

[@EstoniaballAnimations]

The history of our Karelian cousins is fascinating and I haven’t gotten to find out much about it until this video. Great job, keep it up!

[@finlandmapping]

Thanks! In my opinion, it's at least as interesting as Finnish history. But sadly much more suffering

[@hilmust6278]

Thanks, from a part Karelian, to Estonia 💚❤️🖤❤️💚🤝🇪🇪

[@blockkxxtopbg]

Я из Карелии и мне нравится и Финляндия и Карелия❤

[@blockkxxtopbg]

rakastan Suomea

[@smartlucker4011]

@@finlandmappingalas that’s what happens if you’re not a Russian living in Russia

[@lemogus3394]

Thanks bro! As a native Pomor, I think this video is awesome. Hello from White Karjala)

[@IanHawkes-t2e]

Hello from mohko in north Karelia my brother

[@hilmust6278]

As a part Karelian, i see Karelia in the title, i press the like button within a second 💚❤️🖤❤️💚

[@aksxli]

im half karelian

[@Karjalazet_Kartat]

i am half karelian and speak karelian

[@joonasnaski9513]

As a finnish person with strong lineage from karelia I appreciate that this video has been made.

[@kkona-e9n]

Wow. Such an art piece, made me tear up my eyes in the end.😔

[@johndurham6172]

I love the guy coming up and saying hey want to join our religion and the ball looks at his cross and shakes his head no 😆

[@Nozawana_onigiri]

Wow…How amazing this is! I love Karelia and this video❤️ Greeting from Japan!

[@Bravefsh]

Karelia history is so great! I would love to see more! Suggestion: Family of Albania.

[@Alikersantti]

As Karelian, i wish that's someday our nation will be free and will decide own how to live.

[@Karelenok]

As Tverskoy Karel I will say that this is the most tragic story 😢

[@cheesistaniadoesstuffyt]

I haven't done any videos of this type (even to the history of the regions like this one you made) but I'm sure this is gonna be a good one. Also, will you be making history videos of your country's (or others) cities as well (e.g Helsinki, Turku, Oulu, etc.) (Yeah, this is just my idea/suggestion, hope no one would take this seriously)

[@finlandmapping]

Would actually be interesting but very challenging to make

[@cheesistaniadoesstuffyt]

@@finlandmapping Oh, also, why do you think it's challenging to make?

[@finlandmapping]

@@cheesistaniadoesstuffyt Mostly the flags, many cities or regions have only the current flags

[@ȘtefanAlexandruMarinescu-t7e]

Like from Romania!🇷🇴🇫🇮 Karelia îs Finland and Basarabia is Romania.

[@MikhailKarilov716]

70% of Russians live in Karelia, it can't be Finnish in any way!

[@ȘtefanAlexandruMarinescu-t7e]

Russia anex this land!!!!!!

[@ȘtefanAlexandruMarinescu-t7e]

And deported Finnish!

[@MikhailKarilov716]

@@ȘtefanAlexandruMarinescu-t7e seriously? Karelia has never belonged to Finland... and Moldova appeared earlier than Romania in general) so it seems to me that Romania should be part of Moldova)

[@ȘtefanAlexandruMarinescu-t7e]

USSR anex Besarabia and create Moldova SSR, that become Moldova!!!! Russian Empire anex Besarabia in 1812!!!!

[@NizhnyBall]

Masterpiece

[@PizzaWithCocaCola]

Amazing.

[@Karelian_Guy]

Hi from the capital Petrozavodsk!

[@karjalainen2]

Are you Karelian?

[@Axelwayne12]

Your video made me cry, it's so sad to see what has become of the Karelian people, they are becoming fewer and fewer, Russia is destroying their language, and the saddest thing is that there are many such peoples, especially among the Finno-Ugrians, I'm talking about Mordovia, Mari El, Komi, Udmurtia and their culture is almost completely destroyed and most of them are assimilated and consider themselves Russian.

[@hilmust6278]

Passibo 💚❤️🖤❤️💚

[@Axelwayne12]

​@@hilmust6278 God bless all Finno-Ugrians, alas, most of them were destroyed by barbaric Russian colonialism and we have only Estonia and Finland from independent countries, and then this independence was given to them very valuable.

[@NizhnyBall]

Muscovy genocide 500 years 😏🥵?

[@Axelwayne12]

​@@NizhnyBall Russia is the last colonial empire in Eurasia.

[@NizhnyBall]

@@Axelwayne12 but what about China?

[@philip_394]

Karjala on oleva vapaa! 🇫🇮

[@Bracanza]

1. 80 percent of Russians live in Karelia. 2. Karelia was part of Russia (Novgorod Russia) from the 1100s.

[@KarelianKhan]

@@Bracanza Simply because you colonize something and move the people to Siberia doesn't make something rightful yours.

[@Bracanza]

@@KarelianKhan, As I said, it's been ours since 1100, Siberia was not colonized then. поплачь над этим.

[@joonasnaski9513]

Karjalan on todella päästävä venäjästä ja päättää itse tulevaisuutensa

[@romaboo6218]

​@@BracanzaKarelians lived there even during the Reign of Novgorod for over 4000 years now and they are the Indigenous people or the land while the Russians are just Colonizers.

[@casp3rplayzz]

What if carelia was independent rn

[@user-nikikidsfans2022]

Intro countryballs: Finland Estonia Karelia

[@finnishballmapping]

Good job

[@Beginner_Aviator]

Waiting !

[@Warriorshepherd57]

Good job passibot suuret!

[@aksxli]

Im half karelian and my granparents had to flee because of the winter war

[@joonasnaski9513]

I like the way belarus is depicted

[@Finnish_editor]

Tosi hyviä videoita

[@novactic-s9k]

Actually, this is a very good video. Though the names of battles would be appreciated.

[@rahsun1643]

One Suggestion: Family of Switerland

[@IanHawkes-t2e]

Greetings from mohko and freedom for Karelia my brothers and sisters

[@FranceBallAnimations]

nice!

[@nikotuominen2354]

9:50 it is Äänislinna, not Petroskoi.

[@finlandmapping]

It was always Petroskoi. Äänislinna was created by finns

[@Thomas_aap_sigma_edits]

Yes FINALLY

[@mohitobang]

Interesting

[@WhySupercellAddMelodieMusic]

Family of South Korea, please

[@roymund7430]

Stop it he can make family of palestine

[@AbandonedAcc.]

Bruh that music was used in Mr Incredible becoming stupid

[@finlandmapping]

Which music?

[@AbandonedAcc.]

@@finlandmapping 0:05

[@AbandonedAcc.]

@steveonminecraft💒 Sorry

[@roymund7430]

Good ❤

[@Supernimo735]

Are you finnish

[@finlandmapping]

Yes

[@Supernimo735]

@@finlandmapping good video

[@Chuck-m1j]

Hi I'm Jaiden with my new tablet.

[@theoneblock7107]

Karelia is 90% Russian It will never leave Russia

[@kalleranta2260]

It is only Russian because of genocide, russification, and Soviet resettlement. The ethnicity, language, and culture is much closer to Finnish and has barely anything to do with the imperialistic slavic muscovite rulers.

[@theoneblock7107]

@@kalleranta2260 First of all, the ethnicity language and culture is identical to the rest of Russia, the Karelians adapted to Russia not the reverse. The Karelians clearly weren’t supposed to be ethnically cleansed, they had their own soviet republic like Ukraine and Belarus but their numbers were simply too small compared to the Russians who already lived there even before the winter war for hundreds of years (there was absolutely no resettlement of any kind) so the soviet republic was eventually scrapped. The Karelians themselves slowly just assimilated into Russian culture to the point of becoming mostly identifying as Russians themselves, there’s only 43,000 of them now and I doubt there was that much more of them before. If the Finns annexed Russian Karelia, they would be the minority in their own country, completely outnumbered by Russians. Tell me, do you really want a Russian Finland?

[@kalleranta2260]

​@@theoneblock7107 We wouldn't want to take back modern Karelia, exactly because of what Russia has done is irreversable. And I'm sure, if my country of Finland never declared independence, we would most likely speak Russian today.. Ethnic cleansing is engraved in Russia's colonial history to repress independence movements. For example, within just a decade our brothers, Ingrian Finns ceased to exist due to Stalin's Great Purge, and many more ethnicites have been cleansed with up to 1,500,000 people dead in the population transfer in the Soviet Union. One of the reasons why ​Crimean Tatars are no longer in Crimea, and are replaced with Russians. These ethnicities don't suddenly just disappear within Russian borders, it is clear and deliberate.

[@theoneblock7107]

@@kalleranta2260 What Russia did was basically the norm, Finland did the same when it invaded the USSR during WW2, it’s incredibly unfair to act like Russia is an outlier when it comes to settling newly conquered lands with their own people. I won’t deny the atrocities that Russia did being the primary cause (no sane person would ever do that) but I don’t think it’s insane to think that much of the ethnic dilution came from Russians simply moving there on their own accord, Karelians, (again) not being all that numerous combined with them just assimilating. Karelia today is just as close to Russia as Moscow or St petersburg, it’s over.

[@romaboo6218]

​@@theoneblock7107if the Finns Annexed karelia in WW2 the Russians would have been deported. Karelians tried to gain independence in the 1920s during the Kinship wars but were defeated and promptly deported to central asia and Siberia along with having the language banned. The Finnish Ingrians were also Deported resulting in the population of 200k in the 1930s dropping to 120 today.

[@MikhailKarilov716]

I don't like that you made Karelia a victim of the USSR and Russia! say thank you that the USSR in general gave autonomy to Karelia, Mordovia, Mari and so on. if there had been tsarist Russia, they would have been assimilated...

[@kalleranta2260]

Much of Karelia has already been assimilated and russified. The culture and language is fading within Russian borders, and is far more thriving in Finland as ethnic and cultural successor.

[@KarelianKhan]

Well it is the fact that Russia (No matter who ruled it) actively from the beginning colonized and russified Karelia. After WW2 the Karelian and Finnish communist in Karelia were either killed or moved to Siberia and Russians were moved in to replace them. Same thing happened in the Baltic states too.

[@MikhailKarilov716]

@@KarelianKhan yes, and yet for some reason there were autonomies for the Karelians and the Baltic states Why, if their main idea was to Russify them?

[@romaboo6218]

Yet the USSR deported the Ingrian finns and Karelians and had the language banned.

[@romaboo6218]

​@@MikhailKarilov716Finland also had Autonomy under the Tsar on paper 😂 yet Russification continued

[@FddsthFgjhd]

Karelia should be free from russia