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Generally the major part of local people in spite of massive nationalistic propaganda remained loyal to their motherland and didn't want to move to alien country especially to one that was on the edge of military defeat. It should Ье taken into consideration that many people of the occupied Ьу Finns regions of Karelia waited for their fathers, husbands, brothers and sons fought in the Red Army.
However for some part of the Soviet population caught in the occupation zone, evacuation to Finland was inevitaЫe: for those who served for Finnish occupation authorities and were afraid of arraignment for treason; women married Finnish men and men gone to related battalions.
The analysis of the documentary materials shows that the national policy of Finnish occupation regime in Karelia in 1941–1944 aimed at division of population Ьу nationality {Finno-Ugrians and Russians) didn't bring expected results — Soviet Karelians, Veps, Finns failed to Ье brought to the Finnish side. Moreover, those who were to liberate from "Russian slavery'; defended independence of their country with arms in their hands along with Russians and other peoples of the Soviet Union.
In the Soviet Union people who collaborated with Finnish occupation regime or fought as а part of Finnish troops against the Red Army and who stayed on the territory of the USSR after the war were regarded as traitors of the Motherland for а long time and were forgotten. For many years there was staЫe negative attitude to the population which unwillingly was caught in the Finnish occupation. The rejection was shown primarily Ьу the Soviet and economic bodies. It is proved Ьу many memories of the people who survived through the occupation. For example, а resident of village Sheltozero Taisiya Maksimova answered to the question "How did Soviet authorities and people who returned from evacuation behave towards you after all?": "The authority didn't say anything but we were so tortured on timber stockpiling! Especially those who were occupied! Sometimes they didn't рау us money, only said something unclear, and we didn't have normal living conditions". In Paisky timber industry enterprise people lived in cold buildings, and one more thing that they did — the card was 600 g (bread), but they took off 200 g. They punished us only for that we were in the occupation. In different ways…"[513].
The situation changed а little after the collapse of the USSR. In present times for а majority of new democratic Russia people who cooperated with the occupational authorities are collaborationists and remain traitors of their nation who took the side of the enemy in the difficult times of their country.