• Finland’s leader Sanna Marin promises the truth about the ‘cultural genocide’ of the Sami people.
    The stirring words of Finlandia, Sibelius’s 1899 hymn to his country’s independence movement, praise a people in the midst of casting off oppression’s yoke after more than five centuries of subjugation by the Swedes and the Russians.
    Today, however, the Finns are coming to a reckoning with their own little-known history as oppressors.
    Finland’s leader Sanna Marin promises the truth about the ‘cultural genocide’ of the Sami people. The stirring words of Finlandia, Sibelius’s 1899 hymn to his country’s independence movement, praise a people in the midst of casting off oppression’s yoke after more than five centuries of subjugation by the Swedes and the Russians. Today, however, the Finns are coming to a reckoning with their own little-known history as oppressors.
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