Italian Reacts To Finnish Song : Evakon Laulu

[@PapilioArgiolus]

Mauro, thank you 🙏 Kiitos I will never get through this without tears 😢 So touching 💔 this still affects so many Finns

[@mariamm9460]

Absolutely touching this song😢my parents and grandparents were in the 2 wars, my father was soldier in the both wars Winter war - 1939- 1940 and Continuetion war..1941 --1944....and they evacuated in Karjala/ Karelia...Thank you Mauro, have a great day 🇮🇹❤🇫🇮

[@KamikazeWeed]

If you are a Finn and this song doesnt make you cry, you arent a Finn..

[@MrBanaanipommi]

Yes... and also i do not understand people who says finland lost the wae between ussr... finland kept its land and autonomy.. thats huge win

[@tapio5193]

​@@MrBanaanipommi*Independence.

[@simo_615]

​@@MrBanaanipommii dont understand people that say we won. We lost karelia, salla and petsamo, thats a huge loss. We won many battles and avoided occupation but lost both wars. Mannerheim and paasikivi saw the terms of the armistice in 1944 as horrible and very harsh.

[@MrBanaanipommi]

@@simo_615 its because they were about to take over whole country, not just karelia. We won because we stopped that. Whatsso hard to understand?

[@jonnakatriina]

every single time❤😢

[@somefool4625]

Viipuri ja Karelia is lost. My grandmother missed it for 94 yrs. 😢

[@neymarjr3712]

Same here, but from the other side of Laatokka

[@marjahekkala7545]

This happened also to my grandmother, she had five children with her. My farher was 5-years old. Nobody wanted to have them to their houses. My father is now 90-years old. This song makes me cry every time. ❤

[@JPPVESA]

This is why Finland and Finns stand firm and strong on Ukraine's side. It's not about losing battles and a War, it's about losing your home and loved ones. Ukraine is right now going through the very same as we have gone through so many a times at the hands of the russians. Our heartfelt sorrow for them has awakened the immemorial hatred we carry for the eastern remnants of the Golden Horde known as the Muscovites.

[@sariweckroth1759]

Almost every Finnish person knows this song. And have heard it several times, most likely. I cried, again.

[@florenna]

It's impossible for a Finnish person to listen to this without crying ... And yes, it is a real story.

[@SadeMetsavirta]

I'm only now as an adult starting to understand what horrors my grandmother went through, she was one of the children who left Karjala with her family. I feel lucky to have been born in a more peaceful Finland, it makes me so sad that anyone has to live through war.

[@TheGuilty11]

I'm 38yo Finnish guy and i can't listen this song without tears in my eyes. One of the most beautiful songs i have ever heard.

[@paivimarinela2695]

Oh yes, it's a real story. Finland evacuated 430 000 people, 11 % of the population. Most mothers and children only had 15 minutes to leave their home in Karelia.

[@mursuheikkinen4673]

Koko rajan väestö jouduttiin evakoimaan.

[@polhokustaavaasa6897]

@@mursuheikkinen4673 Kiitos ryssien! Ja nyt sama on menossa Ukrainassa. Onpa hienoa väkeä nuo ryssät!

[@oninaru]

@@polhokustaavaasa6897 Kuten sanonta kuuluu, ainoa hyvä joka tulee idästä on auringon nousu.

[@tuukka7249]

@@oninaru Kuten sanonta myös kuuluu, "Jopa aurinko lähtee poispäin Venäjältä"

[@oninaru]

@@tuukka7249 Tää oli uus ja tulee käyttöön 👍

[@statostheman]

My dad's village was taken on the 6th of december, 1939. They had evacuated, mean while they left a loaf of bread behind. My godfather to whom is in his 90s, was sadden of this ordeal. They lost everything. He travelled back to his home village in the late 90s. The church where he was baptised was dorn down.

[@yorkaturr]

I've got something in my eye again.

[@somefool4625]

Onion ninjas...

[@Spugedelia77]

I'm not crying, but you are crying. What a deep emotional song

[@hyvis4888]

The evacuees had to leave their home, Karelia, it was left to the Soviet Union. That's what this story is about. There are other stories too. Our women still weave socks for babies, which are known as Junasukka, or train sock. The model is based on the fact that there was a barefoot baby on the train where the evacuees were brought from the feet of the war, a woman sitting on the same train had taken off her own woolen coat and knitted socks for that baby. That's why Finland hosts Ukrainian refugees, they too have had to leave their homes because of that neighbor of ours.

[@lintu25]

Karelia was once part of Finland until USSR taken it from Finland. Funny part is that most of western countries was helping USSR back than. Things have changed since then.

[@cocorambo9587]

Not taken, but a part of the peace treaty. Since Finland was working with Nazi Germany, Finns were seen as a enemy during that time. One part of the peace treaty was that Nazis were driven out of Finland, and that's what Lapland War is about. Nazis burnt many cities, for example Rovaniemi.

[@lintu25]

@@cocorambo9587 So with working with Nazi-Germany? Finns ask from France, England etc. countries. No aid comes. So we Finns should roll over and die? Last nail in the coffin was that if some one want to help Finland. They cant pass across Sweden. I know my history do you?

[@lintu25]

@@cocorambo9587 We Finns and Germany got same enemy. So why not? And btw. in 1939 in Winter war Finland was totally alone. Why would you help us then?

[@Lady5Fox5]

First time hearing this song and it gives me cold shivers, my granmother was a child when there was a war back then and it feels like i know what life been back then.

[@Spugedelia77]

Mauro, this song just hits me, because my family is from eastern Karelia and our family had to move out of there, because the USSR decided to attack us.

[@daleynevantaus224]

420 000 karelians left their homes from the karelian areas (and Petsamo area in north), that were handed over to Russia. Two of my grandparents from Viipuri, the biggest town of karelia at that time, one of my grandparents from Seiskari island at gulf of Finland. They had to leave their homes. Evacuees were settled within a year all over Finland. it of course caused some unrest but in general, most of the finns helped them to settle in other parts of Finland. My grandparents did not talk about their homeland at all until I was an adult and even then, it was really hard for them. They were resettled to Kotka, town about 130 km east of Helsinki. However, this is still reason here, why we keep up the most ready army in the western europe, why we have a conscript service and 900 000 men and women very well trained for war. And it is also the reason, why our military budget is high compared to other western nations. Now of course, we are part of NATO alliance. But make no mistake, we were extremely well prepared and capable even before that... And as we can see from current european situation, the reasons to be prepared have not vanished.

[@Aurinkohelmi]

Yes Karelia is split between Finland and Russia, and this song tells the story how people had to leave from the now lost areas.

[@finnishculturalchannel]

An Austrian graphic designer Alfons Eder moved to Finland in 1952. He designed a new label for Karjala beer bottle, which had the Karelia's coat of arms on it. The label angered the Soviet ambassador in Finland in 1968 when the beer was offered to him in an official event. That made the beer popular. The beer was originally brewed by Sortavala brewery from 1932 to 1944 in that part of Karelia, which Soviet Union annexed. Nowadays when drinking Karjala beer it's custom to say that we're taking Karjala back-bottle by bottle: "Karjala olut mainos 1985". 1968 was the same year when Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia: "Vaiettu uhka / Unspoken threat (English subtitles)". Anneli Saaristo singing 'Evakon laulu: "Anneli Saaristo - Evakon Laulu". About the work the Karelia Association does to preserve the Karelian culture: "37. Preserving The Culture Of A Lost Karelia".

[@mursuheikkinen4673]

The original song has a stanza telling how the child-like officers prepared for death or war. Most of the reserve officers were 20-25 years old. "Young Finnish warriors marched against us They were led by those kid-faced lieutenants Many went on their last trip in life then Steady towards the head as if anticipating its moment" Veikko Lavi

[@jannekalliokoski1968]

This song always gets me. My mother had to leave her home at age of 11 from Karelia.

[@peterbaarman612]

I listen to this song now and then, maybe not to forget what our people, we Finns, have been through. My eyes fill with tears every time. So beautiful in all the injustice and tragedy. Thank you Mauro.

[@jk8557]

My grandmother's family was from Karelia and they were unable to leave on time, the red army took them as prisoners and transported them to Russia to prison camp.

[@ellu-7026]

My Father, born 1938 luckily does not remember the winter war...so the Family returned Karelia. When the continuation war started -39 he was still a lively boy and so was "chained" with some sort of rope to a family chest. During their escape as bombing was heard they hid themselves either in bushes or under the carriages --> they turned into black oily stain under the carriages. Living in few places, they finally found home...a place to build home. My grandma had no husband anymore, but She built the house with the help of neighbours. In Finland the housing of over 400 000 people was well organized and eventually taken care of. I myself am so, sooo proud of my Karelian genes. We karelians are exceptionally social and my father is one great example. I wrote this here because my Father has His funeral next weekend. He was 86 yrs old and so humorous and kind hearted person...

[@sonjaristolainen5116]

This song and Laulu sisällissodasta by Paleface makes me cry.

[@lintu25]

paleface as terrorist lover makes me always cry. Left wing anarchist.

[@jumitube4826]

This is real story very much. This was life story of Composer Veikko Lavi's band mate and Veikko wrote this this song.

[@aripitkanen5866]

That was a real story for those who was living in karelia those times, my grandparents have to left their home there outside of border. My grandmother once visited her old home in Vuoksela. Vuoksela was in finnish karelia, but russian takes it in war

[@mursuheikkinen4673]

Conscription is compulsory in Finland. Most of the reserve officers were young men aged 20-25.

[@Skege1000]

This song is bit personal, because my mothers mother had to left Karelia in that time.

[@Pyllymysli]

My grandma escaped the war from Karelia when she was just 6 years old. This is so powerful.

[@patrickuotinen]

Yes, it is based on a true story. Veikko Lavi, who wrote it, based it on his accompanist's, Pertti Husu's personal story. But there were hundreds of thousands of similar stories.

[@jonidickhoff2890]

My grandfathers brother lived with his wife and children in Vyborg, The Capital City of province Karelia. They were not Karelians, becouse they were originally from the area of present-day Finland, so they were in a better position than the Karelians when they were evacuated among the Karelian population to the area of present-day Finland, because unlike the Karelians, they had a place to go, i.e. to live temporally in their relatives home in Helsinki. Of course, like other evacuees, they too had lost almost all of their properties.

[@swanlake3644]

This is all so true. 😢

[@mursuheikkinen4673]

Before the winter war, Finland evacuated all civilians from the entire 1300 km long border. The purpose was to protect civilians from fighting. After the war, the population was evacuated from the area of ​​Karelia, which was lost in the war.

[@Freebrd420]

The Russians have gradually buried the history of Karelia in last more than 1000 years across the border, undermined it, and turned it into a small backdrop, just as they have done in the past in the original lands of the Karelian tribes, almost from today's Ukraine through the lands of Mari people to the Finnish border.

[@erikratila9166]

Yes it is real story.. Karelia was part of finland before war.

[@ravenfin1916]

Auction means that the poor were once auctioned off to a family or person who agreed to accept it at the lowest price. At the same time, he also agreed to take care of her for the next year. Usually the buyer was a large farm or house that needed labor. It was a rough game, because healthy people of working age were almost free, because they were useful as labor. The elderly or, for example, mothers with their children were expensive to maintain, but also poor labor force for heavy jobs, and therefore their price was often too cheap that them were offered. Then they had to live in a communal house. The idea is that the municipality saved money and people got housing and support. Unfortunately, everything did not always go well. In other words, a kind of slavery of the poor where a lot depended on what kind of house you got into and how you were treated there. Similarly, abuses occurred in cruel houses where too much work was done or even if a young beautiful 12-15 girl was called as a maid. Of course, I intervened in the most blatant atrocities, but the houses had money and influence, so it wasn't easy.

[@riikkapitkanen3666]

Two times. Near the Finnish border living Carelians fled Russian aggression against Finland (Winter War)1939 and yet again continuation war (WW2 for real) 1944...😔❤️

[@ellu-7026]

Yes this is an important statement, cause my Father, born 1938 had to leave the home twice. Between the two wars they even had 2-3 Russians "as prisoners", but they really liked my Grandma, cause between their fieldworks She taught Mishka and one other Russian how to ride a bike and my Grandma gave the Russians proper food. My Father was about 5 when The whole family eventually had to leave a place named Muolaa in Karelia, which is now part of Russia. Muolaa as a Community is easily found with Google maps, close to big lake Ladoka.

[@markoruotsalainen1161]

Real story.sad

[@saripyykko6975]

This is real story.

[@markoruotsalainen1161]

Make video Lauri Torni aka Larry Thorne story of finnish soldier who fought 3 armies

[@mauronicolo89]

I think i did a long time ago, let me search!

[@Jonathansww2]

I don't cry easily...but this.... Levätkää rauhassa Suomen sankarit! Sekä sukulaiseni jotka taistelivat ja kuolivat meidän puolesta.. Koti, uskonto ja isänmaa!!🏠✝️🇫🇮

[@tonisuomilqmmi7116]

so sorry i cant hear this song without crying

[@tonisuomilqmmi7116]

men can cry is my point

[@aripitkanen5866]

You should find song "veteraanin iltahuuto"

[@Kennethgranqvist]

Yes.. My mother and his family 2 time... Do that.. 15 Min. And last time 5 min.. 😢

[@riittakeskikuru8172]

This was not certain a story, it was true reality hundred of thousands people , who lived in Carelia ( which now belongs to Russia)in Winter War. By fighting so hard Finland could keep our independency. My father's family were those who had to leave everything. Like many many others. This is not a legend and it is somehow planted in the soul of Finns. And we never never give up our Defense Forces, never trust in Russia. And understand very deeply the situation in Ukraine now.

[@mursuheikkinen4673]

Russia conquered Eastern Karelia around the 14th century. Finnish Karelia is the western part of Karelia. Of which Venähä took most of 1944

[@Pfaltzgraf]

Here is the man who wrote the lyrics of this song. fi.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veikko_Lavi And here is something of the song fi.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evakon_laulu And you are right: East Karelia is Russian. This song tells the story of the people of the Finnish Karelia, which was taken by Soviet Union during the WWII.

[@jarnojuhani8942]

😍😍😍😍😍❤❤❤

[@ArchieArpeggio]

I don´t remember have you reacted to Finnish metal music becouse i watch so many channels for rections of Finnish things. But i sertainly have to recommend this Finnish Black Metal parody. The band is called The Black Satans and this song is The Satanic Darkness. It is great that metal people doesn´t get mad or pissed as someone makes fun at the genre. Damn i laughed the first time as i saw this video. It actually has over 2 million views. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJmbdJmNetOGgJo

[@ChristianLindroos-d6e]

Suomi finland ❤❤💪💪

[@markopelaa]

apparently war is great again..

[@Morhgoz]

You should listen Bella Chiao Suomi version the Finnish one most bad arse verion of bella chiao... Italian version is like soft core versionwhen compared.....

[@peterarmoton2685]

thats going on in Ukraine

[@merjakotisaari9046]

Finland 1939 Ukraine 2022

[@jounilojander8821]

Yes Carelia is nowadays part of Russia if you know hole story about this true story even that part of evacuee aution! And I'm not proud about that idea is that who paid less is winner! And now Russia is writing new variant about history! There won't be Winter War and all kind none truth!😢

[@jounilojander8821]

Hups I noticed write error ment auction last time when commentted! It was our dark time of history! And like I said evacuees was in auctions idea was winner was who can support byed person less money! But it's bassed history and we Finns only must learn about that so it won't happen again! Because world situation is what is I afraid what happens to Ukraine if Europe get's too meny pro Putin presidents and goverments!

[@tiistai9696]

Hienoa että laulussa käytetään "mie" sanaa.

[@ellu-7026]

Tottakai mie. Et Sie ossaa haastaa? 😍🥰

[@tiistai9696]

@@ellu-7026 "miä" on tutumpi sana itselle :)

[@SuperKamaki]

Äläkää ny Ristus jauhako täyttä paskaa! Rupiaa tekemähän häjyä!

[@marjo-riittareinikainen9740]

Your reaction to something so deep is a bit too light. Or is it a male version of deepness… and yes this song lyrics are very much a piece of real history of Carelian people in Finland.

[@musafani2244]

This version is so bad... This is the one and only: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aHjKoJ6NibGFb6ssi=hkoBq8j8ysPEiRM1

[@tapsa7730]

Real Song better

[@anneliseppanen9105]

Veikko Lavin laulamana ei löydy KZbinsta. Evakon laulu by Anneli Saaristo have no Lyrics eng sub.

[@ristovirtanen6396]

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