>>512713829
At first I though there was something afoot here (or as we would say a dog is buried here) since there's no sources on the wikipedia article. But I looked into it and it apparently is true, I found mainstream finnish news articles reporting on it from the 90s and early 00s. This information has been totally suppressed in Finland since this is the first time I'm hearing of it. Damn this actually got me questioning what else has been suppressed this way. It makes sense as Finland tried to post-war distance itself from Germany to please the Soviets. Even the whole "separate war" myth was a total post-war fabrication. So things like this has only come to light after the soviet union fell. But yeah the man is apparently even more based than I thought.
>>512714831
Once in elementary school they had an orchestra perform it (Finlandia) and some other works for our school, this was like cultural upbringing or whatever. I didn't think much of it at the time. But now when I think of it it's pretty amazing we had basically a classical orchestra perform for us completely free. Really makes me appreciative.
But he was also a freemason and even wrote music for them which might put off people. I guess it makes sense as in if we think of the masons as an anti-monarchical movement, as Finnish nationalism was largely a republican movement (anti-Tsarist).
