Henrik Ryosa

Fates of Ingria Henrik Ryosa

Two of Finland's Mannerheim Cross recipients Antti Vorho and Mikko Pöllä were Ingrian Finns or Inkeri who, like many others, grew up in the region of Ingermanland within Soviet Russia. What drove them to escape across the Sestra River to Finland? And what of the fates of those they left behind in their hometown of Valkeasaari?FATES OF INGRIA is the story of a family's trials under the reign of Josef Stalin and collectivization, through the middle of the German Siege of Leningrad and to the Gulag labor camps of Kazakhstan. Young Eino Ryösä escapes to Estonia and then Finland, though the Soviet Secret Police are not far behind...