Why You Need to See Karelia | Russia’s Hidden Gems | Banya, Kizhi and Lake Onega

[@ramcontech]

I am semi-Karelian, since my father is Tverian Karelian, I hope this language will be saved.

[@MikhailTravels]

Привет 🧇 ☕️ 🙋🏼‍♂️ Великолепное видео ✌🏻🚶🏼🔝📹👍🏻✅️ Тем летом побывал неделю в Выборге и окрестностях 📹🚶🏼🚄 Очень понравилось 🙂 В этом году летом собираюсь махнуть на неделю в Сортавала 🚄 а осенью в Лахденпохья 📹🚶🏼Ну и как нибудь в Питкяранта и в Медвежьегорск конечно 🚄

[@sallasundell4351]

My grandmother (my mother's mother) was born and lived in Karelia, as well as my grandfather (my mother's father). My grandmother was from a place called Uusikylä and my father from a place called Käkisalmi.

[@strangelylookingperson]

Now there is some premium real estate over there.

[@hasanmchattan1374]

Finland looks so beautiful!

[@hardbassindustry]

you misspelled “Russia”

[@hasanmchattan1374]

@@hardbassindustry I don't think I did

[@hasanmchattan1374]

@Сухарев Владимир Pssst, hey! McDooonaaald's! 😊

[@GeneralWinter9]

This is Russia. Cope harder.

[@RockerFinland]

@@GeneralWinter9 It's Russia because Stalin took it from Finland (broke the non-aggression pact and started the Winter War). Karelians

[@keithrichardson3942]

I have DNA relatives from Karelia, Finland, and Russia, I don't know how, but the family settled in Britain, a touch warmer, the temperature hardly goes below freezing in London

[@ZeppoIlmari]

My father was karelian. Nice vid.

[@MikhailTravels]

✌🏻🙋🏼‍♂️🤝🏻

[@Belisarius1648]

One day i hope to visit this beautiful place.

[@heh9392]

The annoying part is that they try to show it as so in Russia, yes it is geographically in Russia, but literally the Karelian culture and language is an accent from Finnish with Orthodox as religion. All of these cultural things shown here are all the same also in Finland

[@benitocamelo1488]

Yeah, it's pretty annoying for me too. rxssians occupy those lands and ignore them, but when they want to show them to the world they show them as if they've always been rxssian and inhabited by rxssians. The same goes to Buryatia, Sakha, Yakutia, Idel-Ural, etc.

[@benitocamelo1488]

@Mike Dawson I've done the research, St Petersburg itself is on Ingrian Finnish clay, rxssians occupy those lands. I mean, no country is that large without taking other countries' lands

[@kalleranta2260]

​@@mikedawson6417 Yes Russia is ethnically diverse due to imperialist expansionism, and Russia is still today a white supremacist state. For example, look up the Victory Day parade, and you'll only see hand-picked white soldiers in uniform, and very few from Moscow and St. Petersburg are mobilized to die in wars compared to other ethnicities within Russia.

[@ЛеоПоутонен]

Yeah. I'm from Karjala. And this is Russia.

[@ЛеоПоутонен]

​@@benitocamelo1488dude. Karjala has own world. Karjala it's Karjala. Not Finland or Russian. I'm from here. Most of people are Russians. And yeah it's Russian land.

[@marsukarhu9477]

Finland has interesting gems!

[@mapoch9000]

had 😅

[@againstviralmisinformation510]

Had*😂😂

[@MrK-]

*will have

[@benitocamelo1488]

@@mapoch9000 cope

[@dislikebutton543]

@@MrK-dreaming is valid

[@Lpn_bgt]

живу в кареллии великолепное место ❤I live in Karelia, it's a beautiful place

[@benitocamelo1488]

Indeed, Finland is a beautiful place

[@againstviralmisinformation510]

@@benitocamelo1488Finland is Russia

[@benitocamelo1488]

@@againstviralmisinformation510 * Russia is Finland

[@againstviralmisinformation510]

@@benitocamelo1488 Finland is Russia. In fact you are Russian

[@benitocamelo1488]

@@againstviralmisinformation510 I'm from Mexico, for your deluded idols I'm just a "korichnevyy" or a "tsygan"

[@benediktmorak4409]

many years ago, when working on passenger ships cruising between Moscow and St.Petersburg, we also, amongst others, stopped at KISHI. There, only the small - winter Church - was open to visitors and worshippers. But the big wooden church we could see only from the outside. for years it was closed -for renovations - apparently it is open once more? and that will be my last trip. on a ship that is...to see the church from inside.

[@benitocamelo1488]

Looks like it's such a lovely place, such a shame it's occupied by rxssia

[@benediktmorak4409]

@@benitocamelo1488 Karelia is not being occupied by Russia. Wake up and learn history.

[@x0xchokeonthisx0x]

cope@@benitocamelo1488

[@T--kq3pj]

Karelia is Finland.

[@benediktmorak4409]

@@T--kq3pj Read up when Finland was part of Sweden, WIKI has the whole story. maybe THEY will come one day and claim it?

[@mdm_lyrics_trance_anthems]

Kalevala's book bring me here 🥰

[@vwilhelm5788]

Which book?

[@KrohnosOW]

I would love to visit.

[@benitocamelo1488]

Finland is a beautiful country, hope you get to visit it one day! 😁

[@Pontic_warrior]

I give you some popcorn while reading the NATOtrol comments🍿

[@daphneszeles28]

Oh my goodness!!!! This is great reporting!!!!!!

[@mariasafarova4324]

Это моя Родина❤...Люблю ❤!

[@MikhailTravels]

✌🏻🙋🏼‍♂️🤝🏻

[@adrianaslund8605]

You know It's probably probably the best possible place to have a wizarding school in northern europe.

[@JodyAlberts-Corush]

Karelia is FINLAND"S hidden gem not Russia's.

[@Alexei-s2l]

I'm looking at a lot of ignorant people here in the comments. For those who claim that Karelia is Finland, they are just fools. If you don't know the history, then you don't need to talk nonsense. Karelia belongs to Russia for more than 1000 years. This land was owned by Veliky Novgorod (the republic). Who else claims that the Karelians are a Finnish group, and therefore should belong to Finland, you are just really stupid. Because there are a lot of Fino-Ugric peoples living on the territory of Russia (who have never had their own statehood). And a lot of mixed marriages.

[@benitocamelo1488]

@@Alexei-s2l someone's mad no one accepts minority groups as part of his declining empire. Ps: cope, you clown

[@Max-jp6jb]

Nah it’s, it’s own thing it’s both Russian and finish, the people there are a mix, so it belongs to neither.

[@jes3d]

karelia is karelian.

[@Alexei-s2l]

@@jes3d texas it's Mexico. Land Cherokee, land Cherokee

[@martinamakesvideos]

I have distant karelian relatives. I'm going to try to learn the language

[@koenv5740]

This would be great to visit,

[@tenacious_takakumi2680]

Here’s some history for those saying that Karelia is not Finnish. Finland and Karelia were part of the Russian Empire during the 18th~19th century and Finland was successfull in gaining their independence but Karelia failed. During those times both were inhabitated by ethnic Finnish people (”Karelian” were Finnish). During WW2 Finland took Karelia ”back” but lost it also when the Soviet Union begun their offensive. NEARLY ALL of the ”Karelians” that lived there (around 600k) became refugees on their own will because they didn’t want to become a part of the Soviet Union. So most people living in Karelia isn’t ”Karelians”, it’s Russians.

[@vwilhelm5788]

Why do they speak the language then?

[@tenacious_takakumi2680]

@@vwilhelm5788 They don’t. Just a really small minority speaks Karelian, most speak Russian

[@myname-gx6wl]

​@@tenacious_takakumi2680 oh really ???? according to the census 2010, 50% of people who speak Karelian language live in Karelia, Russia. Another 50% - in Finland. So please don't be so rude, it is breaking my heart.

[@myname-gx6wl]

​@@tenacious_takakumi2680 and by the way in Russia people do care about saving Karelian language and culture. If you wanna know more, you can check the project "сельские лаборатории". Who do you think do it? Russians who don't know Karelian language and culture? Of course no. This work is being done by Karelians who care.

[@tenacious_takakumi2680]

@@myname-gx6wl you’re either a bot or you’re just ignorant. Just open The Karelian language in education in the Republic of Karelia in Russia (1st edition by Svetlana Nagurnaya and Victor Denisov) and they write that ”Out of the 615,668 people living in the Republic of Karelia in 2010, Karelians accounted for only 7.4%.”. Out of that 7.4%, only 36,8% speak Karelian and that figure has decreased by over 50% between the years 2002 and 2010. That means that there were ONLY around 16000 people in 2010 in Karelia that could speak Karelian and that figure is definitely lower now looking at the pace of people not speaking Karelian anymore. As a proud Finn with KARELIAN ANCESTRY, there was not a single day I and my ancestors have forgotten the grudge we have against the savages that took our ancestral lands.

[@nomad_amigo._]

Happy new year 🎉🎈

[@Atipat12]

AMAZING 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@charlesbovalis6591]

I love this !!!

[@benitocamelo1488]

Me too, Finland is a lovely country

[@user-qu3nv4cf4r]

I love Finland ❤

[@JaysonCarmona]

Karelia is like Finland's twin

[@inso80]

Maybe you need to look up the history.

[@JaysonCarmona]

@@inso80 I'm part Finnish, pal

[@inso80]

@@JaysonCarmona And I´m 100% including Karelian and Ingrian heritage, guy.

[@BofansonDiZnats]

@@inso80wow so interesting, I bet somebody cares

[@inso80]

@@BofansonDiZnats Apparently you do.

[@joalexsg9741]

Thank you so much for this most interesting documentary! Happy New Year of the Water Rabbit!

[@DWTravel]

Happy New Year! 🐇💧

[@joalexsg9741]

@@DWTravel 😇😍

[@mariaarranaga9241]

Hermoso lugar

[@benitocamelo1488]

Sí, Finlandia es un hermoso país

[@CarlosHernandez-wm3yk]

​@@benitocamelo1488porqué Finlandia, no entiendo?? El documental dice que es de rusia

[@benitocamelo1488]

@@CarlosHernandez-wm3yk son territorios ocupados por Rusia, se los quitó a Finlandia

[@андрей_свиридов]

​@@benitocamelo1488no lol, go learn history. We only took one small piece of this illegitamate sh'tland.

[@luciano2003.]

​@@benitocamelo1488Ok, y las Malvinas?

[@TomWaldgeist]

I love Finlands nature

[@josephterry384]

keep on dreaming 🤣

[@Filhodaestrada.]

Russia

[@benitocamelo1488]

@@josephterry384 Finnish nature is a dream come true :)

[@uhsir9852]

​@@benitocamelo1488it's not f*nland

[@marsukarhu9477]

Yeah, it seems so interesting there in Finland

[@marcos5153]

Love Russia really want to visit one day

[@BofansonDiZnats]

For all these CIA bots crying in the comment section - there are barely any Finns living in Karelia, keep your wet dreams for yourselves 😂

[@benitocamelo1488]

Karjala on Suomi! 🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮

[@Tengen957]

Карелия-Россия 🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺

[@uhsir9852]

In your dreams

[@benitocamelo1488]

@@uhsir9852 cope

[@benitocamelo1488]

@@Tengen957 just temporarily and not for long anymore, moskal 😈👌

[@tomgu2285]

​@@benitocamelo1488 Russia literally has the most nukes. You forgot it??? Anyway based stalin 💪💪💪 love the soviet union.

[@supah3at335]

karjala takas

[@charleskristiansson1296]

Karelia is Finnish. It should be returned as the Finns would look after it much better.

[@Diablito8042]

Why don't Sweden returns kvenland and set an example first?

[@sepxviii731]

Fight for it

[@hardbassindustry]

Stop saying nonsense…

[@frosty-sweetie]

Americans

[@hUv0]

Finland is Russian Empire. It should be returned as the Russians would look after it much better.

[@LenaMoldovan-p2r]

Correction, customs and traditions dating Millennia not centuries ago

[@jovan009]

Free karelia 🇫🇮 Support finland from serbia 🇷🇸❤🇫🇮

[@Bracanza]

Free kosovo🇦🇱 Support kosovo from russia 🇷🇺❤🇦🇱

[@vladimirinv684]

Karjala oleva vapaa!

[@BofansonDiZnats]

Free from who, lil bro? There aren’t any Finns living there

[@jerrymiller9039]

It's is rightfully part of finland

[@gergopiroska5749]

Giants of Karelia? Anyone?

[@GeneralWinter9]

Russia's Amazing!

[@mrkm2138]

This comment is for guys who says that Karelia is Finland. I’m from Karelia ( Zaoneshie) and there newer was some Karelian or Finnish population. My family lives here from 16th century, so we’re not occupants. Karelia was a part of Nowgorod from 11th century, and Russians has always lived here. So, before writing ur comments about our region u should wisit it before)

[@benitocamelo1488]

You're a moskal, not a Karelian

[@JuanAlvarez-wp6ww]

@@benitocamelo1488 bro who is driven by hate.

[@benitocamelo1488]

@@JuanAlvarez-wp6ww ok, socialist junkie pfp

[@MikhailTravels]

🙋🏼‍♂️🤝🏻

[@RockerFinland]

Those are actually Finnish hidden gems. Stalin took it. From the dictionary: "Karelians are a Finnic ethnic group who are indigenous to the historical region of Karelia". In Russian logic, you're a Karelian if you just live there (many Russians moved to Karelia in Stalin's era, that doesn't mean they are Karelians)

[@mihanich]

The only thing Stalin took from Finland were regions by Ladoga and Onega lakes (Karelian Isthmus etc), but the parts populated by actual orthodox Karelians have never been part of Finland. For example Kizhi has little to do with Finland. In fact, many Karelians escaped regions annexed by Sweden in 16th due forced conversions to Lutheranism and fled to Tver oblast.

[@ville9738]

@@mihanich yeah yeah, "there were no finns there" it's not like over 600k people moved from there because of russia :DDDD

[@mihanich]

@@ville9738 you confuse it with the territories of Finland ceded in 1940 with the rest of Karelia which was never territory of Finland. You know, those lands where they built famous orthodox wooden churches. Some parts of these lands were once seized by Sweden in 17th century so the orthodox population had to flee to Russian heartlands (Tver oblast) to escape forced conversion to Lutheranism. 10% of Tver oblast population are descendants of Karelian refugees.

[@edfilchev5202]

This territory never been part of Finland. It was Vyborg and surrounding areas which were taken from Finland in 1940s

[@kalleranta2260]

​@@edfilchev5202 Finland carries the culture and ethnicity of Karelians, while the Slavic Muscovite rulers have no connection to Karelians other than imperialism.

[@SamuelMTA_]

Finnic ancestral homelands, no amount of russian colonists will change that

[@T--kq3pj]

Karelia is Finland

[@ИвановаКатя-ч9ш]

Finland is Russia

[@guilleport]

Indeed,👍🙏

[@guilleport]

@@ИвановаКатя-ч9ш nyet

[@smoozy372]

@@guilleport yes

[@RockerFinland]

@@ИвановаКатя-ч9ш There was Finland before there were Russia. Don't forget the Finnic Karelian Kalevala is 3000 years old and Finnish language is TOP-10 oldest languages still spoken (Russian language is not on that list because it's young). You Russians belong to Ukraine (Kievan Rus)

[@lucienlachance2852]

10:44 what is this music from can anyone please telll ?

[@maxmigliore8691]

Karelia should gain independence

[@srkfg5678]

Not for you to decide

[@barabancheggg]

Wanna ask Karelians first maybe, bro?

[@Zelgah]

@@barabancheggg Its hard to ask them considering that most of them were genocided

[@barabancheggg]

@@Zelgah Only in Finland, Russian Karelians are alive and well

[@Zelgah]

@@barabancheggg They werent genocided you are right, but Karelians were bullied for their language and culture during soviet times and many karelians were sent to siberia

[@Atipat12]

COOL 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎

[@crichighlights2531]

Russia is so beautiful

[@ratyjoona]

🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮

[@vladimirinv684]

Karelia needs independence!!!❤

[@BofansonDiZnats]

Your mom needs independence

[@vladimirinv684]

@@BofansonDiZnats , your eggs need independence for free childfree live!

[@BofansonDiZnats]

@@vladimirinv684 make it make sense, kiddo. You aren’t good at comebacks, are you 😂 That’s some kind of an inheritance since your daddy hasn’t come back either

[@crichighlights2531]

Are u Russia​n ? @@BofansonDiZnats

[@solomonokoli212]

Russia is very scenic and beautiful. Hope I grow the balls to eventually visit and tour the country

[@IluvLuvrlypeach]

this is finnish culture and land that they invaded and now people like you think its russian culture?

[@ИванХарламычев]

@@IluvLuvrlypeach lol bro karelia has been a part of russia since the 1100s when the karelian tribes started to pay tribute to the Novgorodian Republic (by the way karelia was one of the most loyal regions unlike baltica or more remote yugra)

[@joo_olenmiina]

@@ИванХарламычев but karelian people are finnic and karelia used to be part of finland they arent even close to being russians

[@frosty-sweetie]

@@joo_olenmiina No they arent they never been finnish funfact finland invaded the independent karelia so karelia isnt finnish its itself karelian

[@RockerFinland]

@@ИванХарламычев The Finnish tribes were there BEFORE there were the Novgorodian Republic. Don't forget even the Finnic Karelian Kalevala mythology is 3000 years old. "Karelians are a Finnic ethnic group who are indigenous to the historical region of Karelia". Even the name itself (Karelia) comes from a Proto-Finnish word karja (Karjala), meaning "herd" The

[@funnyduck8107]

Karelia used to be swedish for like 700 years before being finnish and now russian

[@staffanvonmulqwist4311]

No it always really belongs to Karelians.

[@Musica-xo3uv]

Karelians are FINNISH.

[@jorgosgustavus3183]

Karelia always was Finnish lmao. Even before there was a Nordic national identity.

[@UnlockOTPR]

@Emil Merenheimo karjala ei ole koskaa ollut itsenäinen ja suomi ei ole koskaan ollut itsenäinen ennen vuotta 1917. Ennen ruotsia, suomi oli täynnä erilaisia suomalaisia heimoja ilman mitään konkreettista yhdistävää yhteiskuntaa tai järjestelmällisyyttä

[@osk9013]

@@UnlockOTPR Heimot itsessään olivat itsenäisiä toimijoita. Esimerkiksi karjalaiset tekivät ryöstöretkiä yhdessä novgorodilaisten kanssa hämäläisiä vastaan.

[@uhlan1035]

Finlands***

[@eltouni]

It's ironic that Russias hidden gem is literally Finnic.. Not Russian at all..

[@Loreless]

How many Finns living in Karelia?

[@eltouni]

@@Loreless Not too many anymore cause Russians genocided finns and most karelians (karelians, who are FINNIC people) out of there.

[@ransofaraway]

So true , Karelia as part of the Finish country or its own republic (not part of Russia) would be amazing, now it makes me depressed to watch it

[@MrHds46]

​@@ransofaraway Karelia could have been independent country now if Khrushev didn't degraded it to autonomous republic in 1956. There is finnish fault in this because they finns didn't wanted it to be called karello-finnish soviet socialist republic. You can thank Finland for dooming Karelian independent state and all karelian people and karelian culture.

[@ransofaraway]

@@MrHds46 Finland did not doom Karelian independent state/ Karelian people / Karelian culture. Soviet Union and then with the continues of Russia done those crimes against the Kareilians, as well we can see all types of Finno-Ugeric people that lives in Russia and their identity was robbed and Russianized as well (Like Mari people for example) . Russia's crimes cannot be shifted and blamed on Finland, this is a denial of facts ( a Russian method of dealing with things as well). I hope in the future it will cost them with their aggressive behaviors and lies against every county basically and culture that is not them. Only the gas pipe that connect their storage to Europe keeps Russia alive to be honest.

[@robbykurnia9671]

Karelia is finland

[@BofansonDiZnats]

In your dream, lil bro

[@DeuceGenius]

miechael lupin, i love you dog stay strong

[@LTTim-d7f]

Много глупостей всегда придумывают люди , незнание их ничему не учит .Как канал DW блуждает во тьме

[@davidtruckcoe7064]

no birds in the background it looks like the planet is sick .

[@impm1164]

Karelia is FINLAND! Russia took this land by force

[@faramund9865]

Every land was taken by force. But yes, these people are Finnic and have been forced to speak Russian.

[@LastikFantastik.Official]

Ok and?

[@ville82]

The part shown in the video, around Petroskoi was not part of Finland before Winter War. Some parts of southern karelia like Vyborg were, but finnish population evacuated elsewhere at the end of the war.

[@TheGrindcorps]

🇷🇺 🇧🇾 Z

[@Yair44]

Like the USA?

[@KSingh-b6t]

One of good one video

[@torstenhusemann36]

little historical mistake: it is not Russias "hidden gem", because they stole it from Finland.

[@lmyrski8385]

Some of it was stolen from Finland. Russia was a menace then as it is today.

[@ilmatar6608]

Well they also were decimated in their failed attempt to conquer Finland. Too bad part of Karelia was lost but it is what it is. The part still in Finland is still larger than a couple of EU countries.

[@edfilchev5202]

What is now called Republic of Karelia never been part of Finland. This was part of Russian Empire and remained within Soviet Union after the revolution. Stalin took part of Finland in 1940 which is now part of Leningrad Region (Vyborg and surroundings)

[@benitocamelo1488]

@Siberian_Bear72 Finland allied to Germany bc the Allies ignored them and they were facing an existential threat. Of course, r*ssia will never accept that Mainila was their own false flag

[@TheKenmak]

Nice Piiirakaa, but I can't watch any more of this Russo influenced 'documentary'. 🇫🇮 🇨🇦

[@benitocamelo1488]

I didn't even bother to watch it because of that

[@BofansonDiZnats]

Cry about that, Finland is forever Russian territory

[@Sir_Charles007]

Rename the video: "Why yoy need to see Karelia | Finland's hidden gems", thanks.

[@vitunjonne6885]

Imagine how different it would be if it would have belonged to finland😔

[@petunpetunpetunpetun]

Karelians fight off anything Finnish. Those were Karelians who assisted Soviet troops all around during the Finnish -Soviet war in 1940. The provision of Karelians in Finland was and is disgusting. No national rights, no national freedoms. :( The lowest income as well. :(

[@eltouni]

@@petunpetunpetunpetun why are you spreading false accusations here?

[@petunpetunpetunpetun]

@@eltouni What I know from press, wiki in eng, some history and so on - I tell. It is NOT a gale.

[@petunpetunpetunpetun]

​@@eltouni And by the way, whom am I accused here? :) Unlike you - "Russians genocided finns and most karelian" :) I appreciate Finland much. Mannerheim was a strong and great politician. I think so. I read his book "The Memoirs of Marshal Mannerheim" - tremendous book, remarkable person. As I know not everybody in Finland compliance with my opinion.

[@vitunjonne6885]

@@petunpetunpetunpetun nothing that you just said is not true

[@Ирон-ч4д]

Karjala is not russia.

[@chisomahamba379]

Zombie, is it your father’s land 🤔, if you through with your fantasies then you come to reality.

[@mindblowing3202]

"Karelian Wood Construction" it is called traditional Russian construction. Karelia is also not a place of many different ethnicities, it is basically Slavs and Finns living there.

[@petunpetunpetunpetun]

Karelians is NOT Finns. The otherness is the same as between French and English :). "owing to Karelian not being recognized as its own language by the Finnish government, most Karelians had no choice but to learn Finnish and now speak mostly Finnish." - from the Wiki

[@moisuomi]

@@petunpetunpetunpetun Karelian’s are Finno Ugric. They are our brothers just like Estonians

[@HoudinAssasin]

@@petunpetunpetunpetun The way you make your point is quite dark, people tought that the language was the "same" a strong dialect, ofc they had to learn Finnish, should Finns had learned minority karelian? (EDIT:THE SAME WIKI )A minority of them, about 38,000,[10] were Border Karelian Orthodox Karelians, who traditionally spoke Karelian. However, owing to Karelian not being recognized as its own language by the Finnish government until recently, most of these Karelians had no choice but to learn Finnish and now speak mostly Finnish.--------------- even if it was recognized it would not had changed anything, minority language...

[@ratyjoona]

@@petunpetunpetunpetun My ethnicity is 98.3 percent Finnish...mostly Eastern Finland and Western Russia (Karelian parts)...so, shall I disagree? Maybe?

[@RockerFinland]

@@petunpetunpetunpetun Yes, the Karelians had to learn Finnish in FINLAND when they fleed there after the Winter War (like my both grandmas who are real Karelians). If Karelians move to St.Petersburg I'm sure they have to learn Russian there. This is from the dictionary: "Karelians are a Finnic ethnic group who are indigenous to the historical region of Karelia". Karelian culture was rich until Stalin took it and the culture and language almost vanished (RUSSIANS themselves have said Stalin didn't appreciate the culture and language). Karelian language is so similar my grandmothers didn't have to learn "Finnish", it just sounded different when they spoke their Finnish.

[@pierrekiroule2827]

" Russian Karelia": Putin will aprove.

[@benitocamelo1488]

It's a German outlet and Germany's Russia's b*tch these days, they'll do anything to have the czar's approval

[@Ich-Bin-Hendrik]

@@benitocamelo1488 bruh this is the dumbest thing I've heard this year

[@Halloweenn.]

Она всегда была русской.Говорю это как человек живущий там всю жизнь.Мне 51 год.

[@benitocamelo1488]

@@Halloweenn. la tuya por si acaso

[@Halloweenn.]

@@benitocamelo1488 Много ли ты знаешь про мою страну???

[@StacksSats]

waiting for the Bald and Bankrupt vlog

[@asg9478]

U not the only one.

[@x87-64]

How is that Russian? That is literally territory that Stalin took over in a war of aggression.

[@Loreless]

that territory was a Finnish for 20 years only.

[@ransofaraway]

It is Finish land, the was Russianized , like Belarus and places in the Baltic countries, that is very sad what happened there to the locals

[@x87-64]

@@ransofaraway Must take back Königsberg.

[@petunpetunpetunpetun]

It was not Stalin. It was The Peter 1. He seized it off Sweden in 18th century.

[@mearbye]

@@petunpetunpetunpetun In 19th century by Alexander 1

[@nomad_amigo._]

Russia ❤️

[@RockerFinland]

*Finland

[@benitocamelo1488]

* Finland x2

[@marcelocoto3245]

They need to give it back to Finland

[@polkad6983]

Попробуй😂

[@RyanRoemer8624]

Not gonna happen

[@ramatgan1]

Russia is so beautiful.

[@jorgosgustavus3183]

Rightful Karelian land

[@UnlockOTPR]

@@jorgosgustavus3183 it is but its internationally recognized as part of russian fr and that just the reality of the situation

[@jorgosgustavus3183]

@@UnlockOTPR of course. But soon Mashallah it will be free! Like in the early 1920s

[@UnlockOTPR]

@@jorgosgustavus3183 how

[@jorgosgustavus3183]

@@UnlockOTPR When Russia invades Finland and Loses to Ukraine we will demolish the federation

[@MrJaakko007]

karjala on oltava vapaa

[@veronicfeline3869]

There are a lot of Korels all over the country, especially in Karelia and the Tver region! many Karelians have long considered themselves Russian!

[@VizAro]

За последнее спасибо Сталину!

[@petesmart1983]

Nope only from Russia's genocide of Finnish people, if you kill the fins of course russians are going consider themselves russians idiota

[@benitocamelo1488]

Karelians are Karelians, not r*ssian

[@askeladd60]

@@benitocamelo1488 Karelian is ethnicity not a nationality genius, so they are both

[@benitocamelo1488]

@@askeladd60 they're just unfortunately occupied by rxssians, they have no other choice as for citizenship

[@heyyou2104]

This aged like milk

[@SpedeUrpolainen]

Its not Russia , its Finlands now conquered ancient homeland , like much of the north west "russia"

[@veronicfeline3869]

Russians as an ethnic group are a mixture of Slavic and Finno-Ugric peoples 65/35! Everyone considers themselves Russian!

[@eddyc8900]

And Swedish ancestry apparently. The Rus (Ruotsi in Finnish) ?

[@jere4352]

20% of 'russians' are muslims so update your mixture littlebit lol

[@benitocamelo1488]

R*ssia is a pariah nowadays, I doubt minority groups consider themselves as r*ssians nowadays

[@Andrei-ev7du]

@@eddyc8900Varagians were baltic, swedish Vikings, they are genetically indistingible from karelians o other finnic peoples o baltic

[@green_beret8567]

Karelia is FINLAND

[@crichighlights2531]

Finland scenery looks so beautiful

[@kaksidaksi3455]

Wdym russias. this is Finland.

[@xaviersijipaul11]

Lmao it's spelled so similar to Kerala that I had a typo and ended here! Completely opposite but beautiful places both of them!

[@unnv009]

*finnish

[@dennis9401]

Karelia. Finland. Not Russia.

[@ElenaKomleva]

Karelia is Karelia. Keep your imperialism in check

[@polkad6983]

Finland is Russia

[@RyanRoemer8624]

Too late

[@Atipat12]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@devindabuddhi7037]

Slava Russia karelia is Russian land ❤

[@benitocamelo1488]

Cope

[@devindabuddhi7037]

@@benitocamelo1488 bot you can't do anything finnish clown😂😂😂😂

[@edfilchev5202]

Karelia is the land of Karelians and Veps

[@devindabuddhi7037]

@@edfilchev5202 but karelians choose Russia

[@edfilchev5202]

@@devindabuddhi7037We didn't choose Russia, we were gven no choice

[@elforeigner3260]

Russia? No thanks 👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻

[@benitocamelo1488]

Fortunately, Karelia is Finland

[@karelianboll_2023]

@@benitocamelo1488 Karelia is Russia. You are funny

[@benitocamelo1488]

@@karelianboll_2023 No, you're the funny one if you think Karelia is Russia

[@wber3530]

@@benitocamelo1488 You miss some basic education, Karelia was Novgorod Republic originally

[@benitocamelo1488]

@@wber3530 not the whole of it

[@spectralcoffee5177]

Finnish occupied soil

[@Emperoad]

No russia, no Karelia. No finland, no Karelia.

[@boryslebeda6908]

Easter Germany is Russian's hidden gem. Karelia is just occupied by Russia

[@jere4352]

DW should tell to people that 500000 Karealians had to flee from Karelia becouse russians attacked. Still we live in Finland becouse of Moscows tyrants. We, Karelians want our country back, propably as part of Finland.

[@Sherminatoru]

Ну дак ты тогда тоже меня поймёшь.Нам тут война не нужна, но я вижу тенденцию финнов к тому, что они хотят вернуть себе "свои" земли.Если ты и твои соратники стремятся к войне, то чем вы отличаетесь от агрессора?И что конкретно ты сделал для того, чтобы тут было лучше жить?Уехал в Финляндию?

[@Mrityormokshiya]

@@Sherminatoru Finland is a much better country with higher living standards than Russia.

[@petesmart1983]

And the ones who stayed were killed, sent to work/death camps. And many women were forced to marry Russians

[@pavpaaa007]

@@Sherminatoru Hmmm, you fail to read that Jere is Karelian by his own word, not Finnish or Russian. Fleeing Stalin's horrors for the preferred Finnish lands. I'd say your comment hasn't aged well considering Putin's desire to regain 'their' lands in Ukraine but you've written this nonsense well after these more recent atrocities. I note that as someone that can speak both Finnish and Russian, when the lady in the video spoke Karelian (and her banners on the walls of her home), only my Finnish knowledge was going to help me understand what was said/written. So how far back into history you want to go to determine if Karelian's are Russian? Back to the Kalevala perhaps, when Russia wasn't a thing?

[@Sherminatoru]

@@pavpaaa007 Уважаемый!Покажите, где я сказал, что карелы являются русскими и я извиняюсь перед вами.А так пока что бредите вы, а не я)

[@MrHds46]

Karelia could have been independent country now if Khrushev didn't degraded it to autonomous republic in 1956. There is finnish fault in this because they finns didn't wanted it to be called karello-finnish soviet socialist republic. You can thank Finland for dooming Karelian independent state and all karelian people and karelian culture.

[@petunpetunpetunpetun]

Karelians is NOT Finns. The difference is a great deal. Finns look upon Karelians as low class. It is a long-standing pose ongoing today.

[@mrpotatoguy1]

@@petunpetunpetunpetun Finns see Karelians as closer than brothers. Why spread lies?

[@petunpetunpetunpetun]

@@mrpotatoguy1 What I KNOW from press, wiki in eng, some history and so on - I tell. It is NOT a gale. I appreciate Finland much. Mannerheim was a strong and great politician. I think so. I read his book "The Memoirs of Marshal Mannerheim" - tremendous book, remarkable person. As I know not everybody in Finland compliance with my opinion.

[@petunpetunpetunpetun]

@Proud Swede :) Say sweden family. :) Then read Selma Lagerlof The Lowenskold Ring (The General's Ring). It sounds ridiculous. :)

[@petunpetunpetunpetun]

@Proud Swede You are about ethnic group, aren't you? If yes, then you are right. Karelians ARE baltic Finic.

[@ronjermy7622]

its Finnish not russian

[@askeladd60]

It's part of Russia now. Deal with it

[@ronjermy7622]

@@askeladd60 sorce???

[@askeladd60]

@@ronjermy7622 any map of Russia and Finland

[@ronjermy7622]

​@@askeladd60 SO do you belive ukraine is part of russia

[@askeladd60]

@@ronjermy7622 not unless Russia manages to conquer Ukraine, which seems impossible based on Russias extremely limited military capabilities

[@unoramat7428]

Karelia belongs to Finland. Period.

[@RyanRoemer8624]

Too late

[@vali11d1]

This is Russia now.

[@hermanmattheus9455]

Russia stole this from Finland. So there are no Russian Gems there. Please use the right terms.

[@RyanRoemer8624]

No

[@hermanmattheus9455]

@@RyanRoemer8624 Yes

[@marcosramos4596]

I'll visit this place and Marry a Russian Woman!

[@benitocamelo1488]

But this place is Finland, not rxssia

[@weamWeaaam]

Same