All of the president's historians: the debate over Urho Kekkonen.

From: Scandinavian Studies | Date: September 22, 2003| Author: Lavery, Jason | Copyright information

SELDOM DOES A HISTORIOGRAPHICAL DEBATE enter the discourse of popular music. Such though was the case in 1991 when the Finnish singer Juhani "Juice" Leskinen recorded the song "Siniristilippumme" [Our Blue and White Flag]. Like many of Leskinen's songs, this piece examines the Finnish condition. He sings about a country plunged into economic depression as well as caught between an integrating western Europe and a disintegrating eastern Europe. Many of the truths and beliefs of a co...

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