Toni Wirtanen & Jannika B - Evakon laulu (Vain elämää 2017) Reaction 

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.

the song is about the time of the Second World War, when Finns living in Karelia were evacuated when Russia invaded Finland. Finland lost Karelia in the war

Love you reaction. Toni Wirtanen is epic stars in Finnish music.

Hello! My Mother was a Karelian and her home is now In the Russian side.

Toni Wirtanen is the singer and founding member of the band Apulanta. One of Finland's best artists. Here is one song in English: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dJZdI1pdjIE.html

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-h2bhFriHXYA.html&ab_channel=Finnsic Lyrics in English

This version is so bad... This is the one and only: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2GgokWTLR9I.htmlsi=hkoBq8j8ysPEiRM1