The exhibition

Descriptions of the war by veterans in their own words

“Only three of us standing in that queue for soup survived…”

“Then was then and now is now. Now I take care of my wife. I make her whole meal porridge. That is healthy. She is 87 years old.”

“All men from one village could die because people from the same region were placed together during the Winter War. This changed, however, in the Continuation War.”

“It does not matter if you are Russian or Finnish. A human being is a human being.”

“I would have preferred to face our real opponents, Stalin and Molotov, in battle rather than the Russian soldiers.”

“I was poor and an orphan, so the army was my home and the soldiers were my brothers.”

“We ate moose and birds. It was more difficult for people in the cities who were unable to hunt.”