The man printed and distributed the leaflets in the Karelian border town of Sortavala earlier this year, reports RIA Novosti.
The text in the leaflets said the land along Russia’s border to Finland in Karelia, Leningrad and Murmansk region that was annexed by the Soviet Union during World War II should be returned to Finland.
The eastern part of the former Finnish terrotory Karjala was ceded to Russia after the Winter War of 1939-40. Also areas in in southeastern Finland was ceded by the Soviet Union and is a part of what is today’s Leningrad Oblast.
In the north, Finland had the Petsamo area in the period from 1920 to 1944. The Petsamo-corridorthe area from Lake Inari to the Pechanga fjord and gave Finland access to the Barents Sea
