Monday, October 15, 2007

Historian Heikki Ylikangas Challenges Finnish National Mythology

This is not a man who is afraid of being right - or of being alone. Last Tuesday, Heikki Ylikangas published the book Romahtaako rintama? ("Is the Front Collapsing?") whose basic thesis is that the Finns executed more of their own soldiers for desertion during the final phases of the continuation War than had been previously disclosed.

http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Historian+Heikki+Ylikangas+challenges+Finnish+national+mythology/1135230912991