Toppilan Maija 🇫🇮🏴‍☠️🇪🇺🇫🇷🇽🇰 🇺🇦

Politiikka Design ja arkkitehtuuri Kirjallisuus Keskiajan sotahistoria. ******* Don’t send me DMs, I’ll ignore them and scammers get blocked ‼️

[Toppilan Maija 🇫🇮🏴‍☠️🇪🇺🇫🇷🇽🇰 🇺🇦 @MaijaToppilan]

@vitjavaari @fixit1917 Ei tule tylsää Twitter -päivää, kun seuraa Fixit -performansseja.

[Rob Jetten @MinPres]

Vandaag precies 12 jaar geleden verloren 298 onschuldige mensen het leven bij het neerhalen van vlucht MH17. Voor altijd is 17 juli 2014 een zwarte bladzijde in de Nederlandse geschiedenis.

In Vijfhuizen bij het Nationaal Monument worden elk jaar op deze dag de slachtoffers herdacht. Alle 298 namen worden genoemd. Om zo de herinnering aan elk van hen levend te houden.

Om stil te staan bij het gemis en verdriet. Zodat zij in gedachten voortleven.

Ik wens de nabestaanden op deze moeilijke dag veel sterkte en troost toe.

[🇫🇮✸⌘Lucien Lambent⌘✸🇫🇮🇪🇪🇲🇳🇭🇺 @LambentLucien]

Outside of ethnic karelians living in Finland, such as myself, Karelians outside of our borders will probably go extinct over the next century or so. In some ways, that means Karelians will have gone out twice; first as a cultural entity, and then finally, as a distinct ethnicity.

I'm grieving that.

I just have a hard time conceiving of it. The Karelians have been an ethnic group for 2000 years. The impact they've had on how modern people understand epic storytelling has been disproportionate on the global stage, and largely unacknowledged still in 2026. I'm working to change this through my own author brand, but it's going to take time.

A people whose current global population is smaller than a mid-sized town gave the epic fantasy genre its foundational structural template, filtered mostly through Tolkien, and almost nobody encountering that influence today knows where it came from.

Most readers who've felt the pull of a magic ring, a world-ending contested artifact, a wise ancient figure summoned across vast distance, are standing on Kalevala bones without knowing it.

[Photonik Fella 🇫🇷 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 🦩 @PhotonikNAFO]

Marine LePen et Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

[Kim Väisänen @kimvaisanen]

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes:

Sebastian Tynkkynen (ps.) on tuomittu kolmesti sakkoihin kiihottamisesta kansanryhmää vastaan sekä kerran uskonrauhan rikkomisesta

[France en Finlande 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @ambafrancefi]

Puolustusvoimien 19-henkinen osasto marssi 14.7. Pariisissa Ranskan kansallispäivän sotilasparaatissa osana halukkaiden koalition ryhmää 🇫🇷🇫🇮
Un détachement de 19 Finlandais a participé au défilé militaire du 14 juillet à Paris 🇫🇷🇫🇮
@FR_DA_Finland @Puolustusvoimat

[Vesa Heikkinen @tosentti]

Perustuslain mukaan kansanedustajan tulee esiintyä vakaasti ja arvokkaasti sekä toista henkilöä loukkaamatta. Persujen ryhmäjohtaja on lukenut perustuslain huonosti tai luetun ymmärtämisessä on haasteita. #persut

[Anonymous @YourAnonCentral]

If you are a Russian occupier living in Crimea please make sure to leave the homes you took clean, fridges restocked, and the house keys on top of the dinner table. Their owners will be arriving soon.

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

In 1941, a 24-year-old woman knocked on the door of the British consulate in Bilbao, Spain. With her stood a Belgian soldier and a Scottish pilot whom she had just guided across the Pyrenees mountains on foot, in the freezing dark of winter.

She introduced herself as Andrée de Jongh and calmly explained that she had created an underground escape network stretching all the way from occupied Belgium. She told the officials that she could keep doing it, but she needed funding to sustain the operation.

The British officials did not believe her. The consulate sent an urgent message to London, and the reply was cold and dismissive.

They assumed it was a trap set by the German secret police.

To them, it seemed completely impossible that a young woman of her age could pull off such a dangerous feat. They refused to give her any money or support.

Instead of giving up, Andrée turned around. She hiked right back over the treacherous mountains into occupied territory to keep doing exactly what she had promised.

Andrée grew up in Brussels, the daughter of a schoolteacher. When she was a little girl, she read the story of Edith Cavell, a British nurse executed during World War I for helping Allied soldiers escape. That story stayed with her.

When the German army marched into Brussels in May 1940, Andrée was working as a commercial artist. She immediately knew she could not just sit by and watch.

She started small, volunteering to help wounded soldiers, organizing safe houses, and moving people between secret locations. But she quickly realized that hiding them was not enough.

These stranded soldiers and shot-down pilots needed to get completely out of occupied Europe so they could fight another day.

Andrée mapped out a massive, thousand-mile escape route that ran from Brussels, through Paris, down to the south of France, and finally over the steep Pyrenees mountains into neutral Spain. She called it the Comet Line.

It was an incredibly perilous journey. The Nazis had set up checkpoints everywhere, cities were crawling with informants, and anyone who turned in an Allied soldier was promised a massive financial reward. A single mistake meant death. Yet, Andrée managed to build a network of ordinary heroes. She recruited farmers who hid men in their barns, priests who provided temporary sanctuary, and everyday families who shared their meager rations and offered a warm bed for the night.

She personally forged identity documents, memorized train schedules, and studied enemy patrol patterns. Whenever a group reached the south of France, Andrée took over as their personal guide for the hardest part of the journey.

Crossing the Pyrenees took two full nights of intense hiking. The paths were steep, covered in snow during the winter, and slick with mud and rain in the spring. She led men who were exhausted, terrified, and often carrying painful injuries.

"Keep moving," she would tell them in a quiet, firm voice. "Do not stop."

She made this grueling journey thirty-three times.

Eventually, London realized she was telling the truth. They gave her the code name “Dedee” and began supporting her network, which ultimately saved 118 Allied airmen through her direct efforts. But the Gestapo was closing in.

In January 1943, Andrée was captured at a remote farmhouse in the French Basque country. She was only twenty-six years old. The German secret police interrogated her brutally for weeks. She looked them in the eye and said, "I am the one who organized everything. I did it alone to protect the others."

The Gestapo did not believe her either. They could not accept that a young woman was the mastermind behind one of Europe's most successful escape lines.

Because they underestimated her, they didn't execute her on the spot. Instead, they sent her to the Ravensbrück concentration camp, and later to Mauthausen.

She survived the horrors of those camps for over two years until American troops liberated her in 1945.

#drthehistories

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

When the war ended, Andrée was twenty-eight years old. The governments of Belgium, the United Kingdom, and the United States showered her with medals and military honors.

She politely accepted the recognition, but she didn’t care about fame. As soon as she was able, she packed her bags and left the spotlight behind.

Andrée trained as a nurse and spent the next thirty years of her life working in remote leper colonies across Africa, including the Congo, Ethiopia, and Senegal.

She dedicated herself to caring for the most marginalized and forgotten people, never asking for praise or attention.

When someone later asked her why she chose such a difficult life after surviving the war, she answered simply,

"Those who receive a lot must give back."

[Hakki K 🏴‍☠️🇫🇮🇪🇺🇺🇦🦝 @KreusHakki]

Huutista!!!! 👍👌🤦‍♂️🤡😁🤣😂🍿🍿🍿

Kiitokset vinkistä, @PanuKovalahti

@Aristo666Doukas @Sini_Vuori @virtaava @CeeMedia2
@EineKlaus @Sivuhuomau54414 @TapioTenhu56627
@BULI80014269 @vitjavaari @FckRussia666 @Simasuu_XO

[Kaartin jääkärirykm. @KaartinJR]

Kaartin jääkärirykmentti osallistui Ranskan kansallispäivän juhlallisuuksiin lippujoukkueen muodossa.

Puolustusvoimat osallistui 14.7. järjestettävään Ranskan kansallispäivän paraatiin.

Kuvat 2-4: Matti Porre/Tasavallan presidentin kanslia

#kaartjr #maavoimat #puolustusvoimat

[Otto Meri @OttoMeri]

Suosittelen kaikille tätä ääriaineistoksi luokiteltua Risto Rytin elämäkertaa. Ryti pelasti omalla henkilökohtaisella uhrauksellaan maamme itsenäisyyden. Hän maksoi siitä vapautensa ja terveytensä.

Risto Ryti on suurimpia suomalaisia! 🇫🇮

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

Bravo à l’Espagne pour cette qualification. Merci aux Bleus d’avoir porté nos couleurs avec engagement. La défaite de ce soir est difficile, mais cette équipe est jeune et pleine d’avenir.

[Alexander Kokcharov @alex_kokcharov]

Just a friendly reminder.

If you can’t distinguish spoken Russian from spoken Ukrainian, and don’t know what Surzhyk is, you’re probably not in a position to comment on language and identity in Ukraine.

[Cyrille Amoursky @AmourskyCyrille]

🇺🇦🇫🇷❤️ Une émotion certaine devant ces images.

L’armée ukrainienne, qui protège l’Europe depuis plus de 4 ans, défile sur la plus belle avenue du monde.

Je suis fier d’être français, fier d’être aux côtés des Ukrainiens.

Gloire à la France ! Gloire à l’Ukraine !

[Regina Bauer 🇪🇪🇺🇦 @petite_michelle]

A Pole has been detained who set up hundreds of social media accounts to incite hatred against Ukrainians. This is what he looks like:
A literal pedoface.

[Regina Bauer 🇪🇪🇺🇦 @petite_michelle]

Our shared history.
🇪🇪🇫🇮

[🇫🇮🇨🇵French defense attaché in FINLAND @FR_DA_Finland]

Je suis impatient de voir les militaires finlandais défiler ce matin sur les Champs Elysées!
Kiitos Paljon, Suomi.
Such a great honor to welcome Finnish soldiers on the Champs Elysées this morning! 🇨🇵🤝🇫🇮 @DefenceFinland

[Tapio Ylipuranen 🇫🇮🇺🇸🇺🇦✝️ @TapioYlipuranen]

Tämä oli tehnyt minusta yhteisöilmoitukset, että haukun venäläisiä 😂😂😂

[Toppilan Maija 🇫🇮🏴‍☠️🇪🇺🇫🇷🇽🇰 🇺🇦 @MaijaToppilan]

@Bricktop_NAFO Here here
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