Smashing Kantele lähdeluettelo

Pictures of Maria Remsu & Maura Hotajeva | Originally from Oma Mua and Punainen Karjala. Pics can be accessed on: https://uhtuanhistoria.home.blog/parssola/

Timo Lipitsä (Valokuvaamo Laatokka, 1936) | Image | https://www.finna.fi/Record/museovirasto.E9A9FB017BB44999F04F794B564E7908

Kantele (K10814-1) | Image | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kantele_(K10814-1).jpg

Elias Lönnrotin tekemä kantele (1930) | Image | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elias_L%C3%B6nnrotin_tekem%C3%A4_kantele_1930_(HK19670603-750).tif

Äänet / Sounds

OOPUS - Põhjala Lahing | Music | Music by: Johannes Ahun, Mari Meentalo

Performed by: OOPUS, Johannes Ahun, Mari Meentalo

Album: Folk On Acid, 2022

OOPUS is an Estonian folktronica group bringing together traditional runo songs, Estonian bagpipes and live electronic dance music. Their sound combines folk heritage with analogue synthesizers and influences from techno, acid, dub and ambient music. OOPUS is formed by Mari Meentalo, a traditional musician, singer and bagpipe player, and Johannes Ahun, an electronic musician, producer and sound engineer. The performance features their composition “Põhjala lahing”. www.oopus.ee

Birds in spring forest | Sound | https://freesound.org/people/mfraczek/sounds/679904/

Symphony No. 6 "Pathétique" (Tchaikovsky) | Music | https://musopen.org/music/by/performer/Musopen-Symphony-Orchestra

Nutcracker Suite, Act I No. 7 "Dance of the Flutes” (Tchaikovsky) | Music | https://musopen.org/music/by/performer/Musopen-Symphony-Orchestra

Coriolan Overture, Op. 62 (Beethoven) | Music | https://musopen.org/music/performer/musopen-symphony/

"Lark" String Quartet, Op. 64 No. 5 (Haydn) | Music | https://musopen.org/music/by/performer/Musopen-Symphony-Orchestra

Duo Ruut - Interlude ft. Erki Pärnoja | Music | Music by: Katariina Kivi, Ann-Lisett Rebane, Erki Pärnoja

Performed by: Katariina Kivi, Ann-Lisett Rebane, Erki Pärnoja

Album: Ilmateade, 2025

Video

Soviet Russia (March of Time) | Video | https://catalog.archives.gov/id/135188940

Roosevelt, Churchill, de Gaulle, Chiang Kai-shek and Stalin | Video | https://catalog.archives.gov/id/76502

Closeup Hitler | Video | https://catalog.archives.gov/id/503129302

Hitler on Tour Throughout Germany | Video | https://catalog.archives.gov/id/23652

German Personalities | Video | https://catalog.archives.gov/id/97825

Soviet Russia (id 97811) | Video | https://catalog.archives.gov/id/97811

Inside Nazi Germany - Berlin Meeting | Video | https://catalog.archives.gov/id/149272335

Printti / Newspaper

Punainen Karjala, 24.10.1936 | Newspaper | https://digi.kansalliskirjasto.fi/sanomalehti/titles/fk14973?display=THUMB&year=1936

Punainen Karjala, 14.3.1937 / 20.9.1937 / 22.9.1937 | Newspaper | https://digi.kansalliskirjasto.fi/sanomalehti/titles/fk14973

Arkistoäänet/Audio Archives

Bose, Fritz - Karelien 1936: Ethnological Museum of Berlin/Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Lautarchiv, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Suorat sitaatit/Direct Quotes

Punainen Karjala 24.10.1936

sekä/and 10.3., 14.3., 15.3., 20.9., 22.9.1937

https://digi.kansalliskirjasto.fi/sanomalehti/titles/fk14973?display=THUMB&year=1937

Runot/Poems

Virtanen, Jalmari - Nyt juhlimme voittoja kulttuurin

Virtanen, Jalmari - Karjalaisten laulu Stalinista

(From Punainen Karjala 10.3.1937: https://digi.kansalliskirjasto.fi/sanomalehti/binding/2079401?page=1)

Kirjalliset lähteet / Written sources

Grönhagen, Yrjö von: Himmlerin salaseura (1947: Salakirjat, 2014)

Jalkanen, Pekka; Laitinen, Heikki; Tenhunen, Anna-Liisa: Kantele (SKS, 2010) (available only in Finnish)

Maksimov, Gavril: Olen kuullut kanteleen soinnun (Kantele.net, uudelleenjulkaisu 4/2020) (only in Finnish)

Mikkonen, Simo; Suutari, Pekka: Karjalan taidepäivät Leningradissa maaliskuussa 1937 — käännekohta Karjalan musiikin historiassa (Etnomusikologian vuosikirjan artikkeli, 2006) (available only in Finnish)

Pringle, Heather: The Master Plan — Himmler’s Scholars and the Holocaust (London: Fourth Estate, 2006)

Suutari, Pekka: Going beyond the border — National cultural policy and the development of musical life in Soviet Karelia, 1920—1940 (in Edmunds, Neil, et al.: Soviet Music and Society under Lenin and Stalin — the Baton and Sickle) (London, New York: Routledge, 2004)

Suutari, Pekka: Karjalainen näkökulma kanteleeseen (Etnomusikologian vuosikirjan artikkeli, 2023) (available only in Finnish)

Suutari, Pekka: The national character of Soviet Karelian music (FMQ 5/2005)

Tarpila, Laila: Petroskoin sinfoniaorkesterin kohtalon yö 1938 — Suomalaissoittajat Stalinin vainoissa (YLE, 2020) (available only in Finnish)

Yrjö von Grönhagen’s book ”Himmlerin salaseura” is also available in English, titled: “Himmler’s Secret Society: Inside the SS-Ahnenerbe” (Helsinki: Star Regulus Press, 2025)

Audiovisuaaliset taustalähteet / Audiovisual background sources:

Huttu-Hiltunen, Heikki: Himmlerin kanteleensoittaja (Instrument of Himmler, Illume Oy, 2014)

Saunio, Ilpo: Yrjö von Grönhagenin haastattelu 25.07.1986 (Maailman Musiikin Keskuksen arkisto, Helsinki / The Global Music Center Archives) (available only in Finnish)