The long-term goal of the military administration was to make it possible for Eastern Karelia to be permanently integrated to the Finnish state after the ultimate German victory over the Soviet Union. The notable exception is
Petroskoi (Petrozavodsk), which was deemed as sounding too "Russian", and was renamed
Äänislinna, a literal Finnish translation of the name
Onegaborg used in the
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum of
Abraham Ortelius. Although Finnish troops never reached
Kemi (
Kem) on the shores of the
White Sea, this town was also to be renamed, as a
town with an identical name already stood in
Finnish Lapland. The new name was tentatively suggested to be
Vienanlinna ("Castle of
Viena"), a continuation of several Finnish cities and towns ending in suffix
-linna (e.g.
Hämeenlinna,
Savonlinna). The Karelian population was also discouraged from giving their children
Slavic names. The Finnish authorities further estimated that of the remaining 85,000, about half could be classified as "national"; that is,
Karelians,
Finns,
Estonians,
Ingrians,
Vepsians and other smaller Finnic minorities considered "kindred peoples" (
heimo). The majority of the population was defined as "non-national", with most being
Russian or
Ukrainian. The main propaganda tools of the military administration were the newspaper
Vapaa Karjala ("Free Karelia") and
Aunus Radio. School attendance was obligatory for 7- to 15-year-old children classified as "national" in ethnicity. The language of instruction was Finnish and the teaching had a heavy focus on Finnish nationalistic and religious themes. The central idea of this policy was to bolster
anti-communist feelings among the "nationals". The Karelians of
Tver, who had escaped Swedish and Lutheran rule from the
County of Kexholm and
Ingria after the
Ingrian War and the
Treaty of Stolbovo of 1617 were especially considered, However, during
Stalin's purges tens of thousands of Ingrians had perished or were
transferred to other parts of the Soviet Union, and in 1941 the Ingrians of Leningrad probably numbered only c. 80,000–90,000. In the autumn of 1941, Western and Central Ingria were occupied by the advancing German forces and placed under German military administration. Because Ingria was to be reserved for German colonization according to the
Generalplan Ost (
Ingermanland), the German and Finnish authorities agreed on a treaty which stated that Ingria was to be totally emptied of Finns and other Finnic minorities, mainly
Votes and
Izhorians. This treaty was implemented during March 1943 to the summer of 1944, when over 64,000 people were transferred from Ingria to Finland. The Ingrians remaining areas still under the control of the Red Army (c. 20,000–30,000) were deported to Siberia during the winter of 1942–1943. After the
Moscow Armistice, some 55,000 Ingrians were repatriated to the Soviet Union, but were not allowed to return to their homes in the Leningrad Oblast before the 1950s. Around 7,000 to 8,000 Ingrians moved from Finland to Sweden to escape the Soviet authorities. Living in the Finnish camps was harsh as 4,000–7,000 of the civil prisoners died, mostly from hunger during the spring and summer of 1942 due to the failed harvest of 1941. Also segregation in education and medical care between Karelians and Russians created resentment among the Russian population. These actions made many local ethnic Russian people support the
partisan attacks. ==Planned future expansion==