Columns One suitcase in use – what would you pack if you had to escape from Finland?

Three million Ukrainians have suddenly found themselves in a nightmare: they should flee the war to their homeland, the rush is.

In the midst of all the grating and churning, this is also a very practical problem. What to pack? There is room for either a south-facing suitcase or a caravan trip. However, probably so little that the majority of the goods have to be left behind.

Kids and passports yeah, grandparents might refuse to leave, clothes, medicine and money as much as Otto gives.

The most obvious items are easy to list, but what else? What to bring if it is possible that you will never be able to return? If you have to leave, you will have to be on the run for a long time anyway.

The situation in Ukraine is also exacerbated by the fact that families rarely flee as a whole. The mothers take the children away, the men are left to fight. The situation in Finland would probably be similar.

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By you should only take things that cannot be ordered from the online store.

The most important things that come to mind are photos, diaries, old calendars and memory sticks with digital photos and family videos. Certificates of employment and other official papers can be helpful when applying for jobs.

Maybe then another small painting and some seeds from the garden to make a memory of where it left off. I don’t think I’ve accumulated anything financially valuable to include.

I ask advise my godmother. At the age of three, he lived in Karelia near the border at the beginning of the Winter War.

At the behest of the Finnish soldiers, my grandmother grabbed her daughter by the arm and set off on a horse-drawn sleigh to the west. They only had clothes with them.

Is there anything you would have liked Grandma Irja to have included?

“Not really,” he says. And grandmother reportedly never talked about the goods.

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“The place we came to was wonderful. We were considered like people there, ”my aunt says.

“After all, we were not popular people here, Karelians.”

However, a child under the age of three had hidden some items before leaving – with the hope that they would not be found there.

The author is the editor-in-chief of HS.

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