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🇫🇮🇷🇺 A young Finnish woman visited Karelia, the region occupied by the Soviet Union after the Soviet-Finnish (Winter) War of 1939–1940, and was shocked by the extreme poverty, dilapidated housing, and widespread alcoholism she saw. Karelia remains one of Russia’s poorest and most depressed regions, while neighboring Finland, just dozens of kilometers away, in 2026 continues to be one of the wealthiest and happiest countries in the world.