Lasse Mårtenson
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Lars Anders Fredrik "Lasse" Mårtenson was a Finnish singer, composer, actor, and theater conductor.
Lasse Mårtenson after winning the Finnish national final in 1964
Continuation War
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The Continuation War, also known as the Second Soviet–Finnish War, was a conflict fought by Finland and Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union during World War II. It began with a Finnish declaration o
Lasse Mårtenson
…in a highly musical home; his father, Elis Mårtenson, was an organist and his mother Eini Mårtenson, née Stenfeldt, was a singing teacher. During the Continuation War, he was sent as a war child to Helgerum Castle in Västervik, Sweden, but returned to Helsinki in 1943. As a young man, Mårtenson devoted himself to…
Finnish soldiers at the VT-line of fortifications during the Soviet Vyborg–Petrozavodsk offensive in June 1944
Finnish flags at half-mast in Helsinki on 13 March 1940 after the Moscow Peace Treaty became public
Vasilyevsky Island in Saint Petersburg, pictured in 2017. During the Winter and Continuation Wars, Leningrad, as it was then known, was of strategic importance to both sides.
Finnish, German, and Soviet military formations at the start of the Continuation War in June and July 1941