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Finns were not tricked but betrayed

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by Richard Bamann, Wahroonga
October 2005

If you want to drink and get drunk, you can do that in almost every country, but to base a travel article on this theme seems quite immature.

Suomenlinna was the base for 7,000 soldiers and the Swedish fleet of 200 vessels, when the commander Carl Olof Cronstedt betrayed it to the Russians.

He was not tricked, he was a traitor and was later sentenced to death but the verdict was never carried out.

Just one more comment, Stockmann is a nice department store — no question about that — but no bigger than Myer in Sydney.

With just a few more facts and a different emphasis, this could have been a very good story.
Sydney Observer, August 2006

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