Talk:East Karelian concentration camps

Serious problem with photos

As I was editing this article for mechanics, I noticed the photos and then the edit-warring over the photos. How are either of these photos, especially the top one with smiling Finnish military personnel and supposed non-Finnic smiling children at a *transfer* camp material or even relevant to the short discussion about concentration camps? The story is about concentration camps where thousands of people died. What are the Finnish military personnel and children *smiling* *at*? What, moreover, do the *transfer* camps that are not the subject of the article and are not even mentioned in the article, contribute to it? I see a lot of edit-warring on the Finnish/Soviet wars between the Soviet perspective and the "Finnish" perspective. This is an instance where I think it just looks plain bad whatever the photo-inserter's perspective. Especially when they're *smiling* Finnish military personnel. I can't see how this photo does anything but hurt the integrity of this article.

I hope somebody connected with this article will substitute a more helpful and more *relevant* photo that actually goes with the story. If not, I think a very strong case can be made, and probably will be made, initially in my deleting the upper photo, that this photo doesn't belong. Paavo273 (talk) 20:21, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

Does the source of this photo allege that anyone in this photo was interned in a concentration camp? If not, the photo would seem to clearly not belong in the article. Paavo273 (talk) 20:30, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

Both of the pictures are known to be staged propaganda shots so I am not sure what difference there is. - Wanderer602 (talk) 20:41, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

Known in the article. I don't think so. These Wikipedia articles are for people who don't know and want to find out. "Nobody will fall for our PR campaign" is a very suspect rationalization. JukkaPietila (talk) 11:42, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

Source no longer working

While viewing the article I was looking at the sources and the one at the bottom of the page didn't work. So it needs to be updated. Pickledhaube (talk) 03:14, 3 December 2021 (UTC)Bentley NielsenPickledhaube (talk) 03:14, 3 December 2021 (UTC)

"East Karelia genocide" of the 1930s

Is this information true?

In the East Karelia genocide of the 1930s, up to 30,000 Finns and Karelians who immigrated to the Soviet Union and were considered "enemies of the Soviet people" were killed. 173.88.246.138 (talk) 00:10, 5 April 2023 (UTC)