I found this CD at a gas station outside of Rovaniemi and thought it looked intriguing, assuming it was related to the Winter or Continuation Wars. So I bought it.
According to ChatGpt, it’s a playlist of poems/stories about the Winter War titled “Fatherland – Hero stories of Finnish grit” narrated by Antero Mäkelä. I found them on YouTube as well but no translations are available. I might try to upload and auto translate just so I know roughly what is being spoken.
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“Antero Mäkelä interprets the recent history of our country
FATHERLAND
HEROIC TALES OF FINNISH SISU
Poems for the fatherland and praising songs for life from the times of the Winter War”
1: “Three Words”
2: “May the heavenly Father protect”
3: “An inhabitant of the Finnish backwoods”
4: “For years”
5: “Ribbentrop flew to Moscow”
6: “The mighty men of the world”
7: “As the frozen soil falls onto the ground”
8: “War waited there”
9: “Old man of the home region”
10: “The heroic tale of the Finnish Sisu”
11: “Us on the right side of things”
12: “The men fought”
13: “The worst was”
14: “Well”
15: “The winter was very harsh (The memories of a female medic)”
16: “A frontierman’s testament”
17: “Holy crosses”
18: “The enemy did not win”
Bonus track: “A praising song for life”
It’s a [poetry reading](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetry_reading) CD, and as you’ve managed to figure out the poems are abut Winter War. Machine translators might not be able to translate poetry very well, so don’t be surprised if your translated version doesn’t make much sense.