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Tatar Muslim Role in Finland's Winter War- Resisting the Russian Invasion.

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By Dr. Ahmed

 Tatars are nomadic Turk tribes which settled in Russia, especially along the Volga. Tatars came to Finland along with the Russian Army when Finland became a subject of Russian Empire in 1809. Tatars were among the Russian troops stationed at Finland. Some of them stayed back in Finland and made it their homeland. In the Winter war and the Continuation war, when Russia invaded Finland in 1939, Finnish Tartars joined the war to protect Finland. 9 of them were martyred in the war. Finnish Tartars had another special ability which was very useful in the war- they knew Russian language. With this special skill, they were used to propaganda and prisoner interrogations. 

Names of 9 Tartars who were martyred in Winter War of Finland: At The War Memorial in Helsinki.

In 1965, a war memorial was built in an Islamic Cemetery in Helsinki. On every third Sunday in May, Finland remembers its war heroes and this Islamic War Memorial is also visited by State dignitaries, wreaths are laid and speeches are given. 

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