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It is not just you. I started to wet my eyes on very same moment as you did. I understood every word. but my emotional reflect came at very same moment as yours. I am a Finn, and never seen this video before.
En kyllä näe yhteyttä tuohon varusmiesten "tetsaamiseen" ja kappaleen välillä, on kuin jostain elokuva trailerista. Jokin Talvisodan pätkä menisi tai Edvin Laineen Tuntemattoman suolla kulku. Jos oikein muistan, niin eipä juuri Sibelius soinut korvissa, kun TST-harjoituksissa haukottiin happea nousulohen lailla.
I saw an incredible all Sibelius concert by Esa Pekka Salonen conducting the San Francisco Symphony last Winter. Finlandia, Violin Concerto, 1st Symphony.
What he meant by saying, our people were splitted... winter war started 39. Finland's civil war was 1918... Harsh to say but ww2 united the people of Finland more or less.
My friend lives opposite the Russian embassy. On December 6, 2017, when Finland celebrated 100 years of independence, we opened the windows, put his huge speakers on the windowsill and played Finladia at full volume. The cops were at the door in less than 5 minutes laughing their asses off. However, they told us to stop fooling around. I guess Russian don't have any sense of humor 😂
Thank your for reacting to this Live version, Cead! Live versions are almost always better than the studio versions because we get to SEE the artist/band actually PERFORMING their songs on stage, in front of a crowd. The energy from the crowd literally "feeds" the energy of the performers which helps them put on a better show!
To all the blacks viewers, and the arbiter of truth. Before you allow yourself to make stupid common; please get yourself educated first. You have responsibility.
At some point - during the Russian oppression - this song was banned. The Russians prohibited this song; it could not be performed. First we had autonomy from 1809 onwards, granted by the Tsar when Finland was separated from Sweden and joined as part of Russia. We had our western government style, our own laws and economy, even our own currency Suomen markka (from 1860) etc. We started to find our identity as Finns. There is a saying that describes that time: "We are not Swedish, we don't want to become Russian, so let's be Finnish.' At first everything was good, but towards the end of the 19th century and in the beginning of the 20th century things changed. During 1899-1905 and 1908-1917 the Russian government tried to ban our laws, wanted Finns to serve in the Russian army, abolished our newspapers etc. In general, they wanted Finns to become Russians under Russian laws and government and deny our status as autonomous area. Finlandia hymni was composed in 1899-1900 and it became part of the Finnish passive rebellion against Russian oppression. As I said, the song was banned, but it was performed under different names and it had a deep impact to each audience listening to it. We "didn't bend under the oppression", we "banished the slavery" and we then and now "rise up" to the daylight/dawn. We became an independent nation! For us Finns this song goes very deep, even deeper than the second World War and the words you heard. Even if the words came later (1940's), the impact was the same. You felt it even when you didn't understand the words!
It is a song about an evacuated people of Karelia during WW2. Finland lost big part of Karelia to Russia. Three out of four of my grandparents had to leave those areas, two from Viipuri, main city of Karelia and one from island of Seiskari. For any finn, this is one of the most powerful songs and a reminder of what happened. Before the war ended and Russian forces started to push finnish army back, people of Karelia (all 420 000 of them) were evacuated and re-settled in other parts of Finland. My three grandparents were re-settled to town of Kotka. But yeah. After almost 80 years, we still see, what our eastern "neighbour" does in the world. And yeah, finns fought back and we fought hard. Can not even imagine, how it has been. But that war is the reason, why finnish young people still do their conscript service, men as mandatory and nowadays more and more women as voluntary service. Unfortunately, in this sense, world is not a better place, as we can see in Ukraine.
Kullervo is a character from our national epic book of poetry "Kalevala", he is tragic character whose whole family gets killed and who gets sold to slavery, who later seeks vengeance and kills himself with the sword that has "shed innocent blood". So vengeance of Kullervo represents the deep rooted hatred for the Russian invaders.
It is spiritual in its core. That's why it is a piece of classical music known around the world. Jean Sibelius composed Finlandia when Finland was still Grand Duchy in Russian empire. It's the song, soul and spirit of a northern nation. Maybe that connected with your soul and spirit. Be well sister woman.
Our main strenght is the peoples wilingess to defend our country. Most of the adult males you meet here hava at least basic military training. In top of that a signifigant number of young women have served as volunteers. (I hold a huge respect for these women for them to stepping up voluntarily)
