Soviet Union Mauno Koivisto learned bitterly that the idea of ​​Russia would never change – He summed up his thoughts in a few words, and they are still cold to read for Finland.

The Soviet Union was Mauno Koivisto’s great passion. He spent his entire adult life trying to understand what the eastern neighbor was doing. He learned that the basic idea of ​​Russia will never change.

Ilomantsi, 6/9/1944

Twenty years old Mauno Koivisto wrote after the armistice from the front home to Turku and told how Soviet forces had violated the peace treaty, set fire, taken prisoners and killed them.

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