For me things like those windows and loghouses are so "natural" and close that i forget it's not so for everyone... Even if such windows aren't really a part of the everyday reality of an average finn nowadays... I am from countryside, i love buildings, and i love those windows. It's one of the most basic models in old finnish buildings, both at countryside and in towns.
I'd love to live in such an old loghouse some time-
And here in Sutela, well, the living room windows consist of six small screens, and so do my windows, even if in a different form. I hope you don't mind all this explanation.
But may i ask, how are windows in your house? Or generally around there?
And soviet and the perspectives... Well, those villages are just called so, those that were moved and emptied. Maybe it means quite much the same than "village without future". They were not seen to have possibilities to survive in the development and modernisation and effective agriculture or whatever, being small and distant (and by this explanation i don't mean i'd accept such thinking, or forcing people to move). Such villages have pretty much became empty also in Finland, even if not by force, but because of the economical pressures, lack of living possibilities there etc. In Karelia, i tihnk one more reason to empty them was that many of those villages located near the finnish borderline, and it was seen to be a risk to have people living so near there. And it was just a way to control people, maybe to get more workers to the collective agriculture or something...
(I should ask father, he knows more about those things.)
I guess wood is rather rare there... And forest are also more rare than here, aren't they?
Wood - oriental. Really? Where?
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03-Apr-2005 14:19
what type of perspectives? i can only imagine with "soviet."//
wood is indeed rare to see here, in houses. its almost oriental to see so, of course the geography doesnt agree.
interesting window. actually never seen such a window frame. it is infact three windons. top, and left and right. and the clouds soft reflection is quite remarkable.
