Abstract
As national scholarship, the task of ethnography, the study of Finnish language, folk poetry and history was to save from extinction the still available ancient cultural heritage that was understood to be Finnish. After the border separating independent Finland from Soviet Russia was ratified in Tartu in 1920, Eastern Karelia closed to Finnish researchers for over two decades. This chapter shed light on themes that have been largely neglected in the history of Finnish folklore research. The key questions are: Who collected the spoils of war that remained in Finland after the war? From where, from whom and for what reason was the occupied area's folk culture recorded? And how did the Finno-Ugric prisoners-of-war taken to Finland during the war and the Ingrians moved from the areas Germany took from the Soviet Union wind up as instruments of major Finnish power aspirations?. Keywords:cultural heritage; Eastern Karelia; Finland; Finnish scholars
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