{"id":1652,"date":"2024-06-10T15:50:19","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T12:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imbipaju.com\/raamatud\/soome-lahe-oed\/"},"modified":"2024-12-11T19:53:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T17:53:15","slug":"sisters-across-the-gulf-of-finland","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/imbipaju.com\/en\/books\/sisters-across-the-gulf-of-finland\/","title":{"rendered":"Sisters Across the Gulf of Finland"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sisters<\/span><\/p>\n

Sisters Across the Gulf of Finland: Looking at each other’s pain<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The psychohistorical best-selling novel Sisters Across the Gulf of Finland<\/strong> is a story of how Estonian, Finnish and\u2028other Scandinavian women around the Baltic Sea worked together to prevent the coming of crisis and war through their own unique actions.<\/p>\n

Published in Estonian, Finnish, Swedish and Lithuanian.\u2028<\/p>\n

Feedback<\/h2>\n

\"Sulg\"<\/span><\/p>\n

Reviews<\/p>\n

\u201cI find myself myself now believing that, in the spirit of Dante\u2019s divine author genius, Imbi Paju\u2019s book can coach us \u2013 as individual citizens, as independent nations and members of ever growing national organizations \u2013 to grow ourselves, and to grow a moral cosmos to combat and\u2028treat evil \u2013 repression, submission, decimation and devastation.\u201d<\/h6>\n

Heikki Majava<\/strong><\/p>\n

– psychiatrist, psychologist and psychosemiotician, Finland –<\/p>\n

\u201cSisters Across the Gulf of Finland. Looking at Each Other<\/em>\u2019<\/em>s Pain<\/em>, which reveals the basting stitches of Paju\u2019s memory work and thought processes, represents a step toward the kind of relatedness found in constant movement, an often contradictory and stress-laden complex process, and as such, the only possible course for the author. As one possible solution, Paju offers empathy, translated word-for-word from Estonian as \u201cfeeling-with,\u201d which may provide the key to understanding the past and shaping a different future.\u201d<\/h6>\n

Leena K\u00e4osaar (formerly Kurvet-K\u00e4osaar)<\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

– Associate Professor of Cultural Theory, Institute of Cultural Research, University of Tartu. –<\/p>\n

Publisher: LIKE 2011, FinlanD<\/p>\n

Hea Lugu 2012, Estonia<\/p>\n

[Sisters Across the Gulf of Finland<\/strong>]<\/h2>\n

Sisters Across the Gulf of Finland<\/strong> describes the choices of European women and their feelings of sisterhood before the war, as well as the verbal and psychological conflicts that the propaganda emerging from the prejudices of the Soviet Union left as a legacy for all of Europe. When the war broke out between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, the occupied areas were subjected\u2028to terror which destroyed the women of the Baltic countries and Poland. After the Second World War, Estonian members\u2028of Naiskodukaitse<\/em> (Women\u2019s Voluntary Defense Organization) were transported to the Gulag, and the Finnish Lotta Sv\u00e4rd organization was declared fascist and banned on orders from the Soviet Union. And thus, an important part of the history of\u2028European women fell into oblivion.<\/p>\n

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Author and film director Imbi Paju in her own words about her work\u2028Sisters Across the Gulf of Finland:<\/strong>\u2028<\/strong>\u201cMy psychohistorical novel Sisters Across the Gulf of Finland <\/strong>is a story about how Estonian, Finnish and other European women around the Baltic Sea networked together to prevent, with their own actions, the onset of crisis and war.\u2028My work describes the choices of European women and sisterhood before the war, as well as the verbal and psychological conflict that the propaganda emerging from the prejudices of the Soviet Union has left for Europe as a legacy. When the war broke out between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, the occupied areas succumbed to terror which destroyed the women of other Baltic countries and Poland. After the Second World War, the Estonian members of Naiskodukaitse<\/em> (Women\u2019s Voluntary Defense Organization) were transported to Gulag and the Finnish Lotta Sv\u00e4rd organization was declared fascist and banned on orders from the Soviet Union. And an important part of the history of European women fell into oblivion.\u2028In my book I want to show the pain left to us as an inheritance by the past. I examine the way in which we look at each other, ourselves and our history. The stories of women in my work refresh our memories and reveal to us the pages of our story hidden in the silence of history.\u2028<\/p>\n

However, my book is not solely a story about the past, but it is also a story about the necessity of dealing with the past, and with the geopolitics of emotion. History is a collection of lost moments which intertwine in the subconscious, when the events of different eras are being viewed and reminisced from a different time, the present. With the help of the film and stories, one can examine lived moments and find parallels with the present day. One can finally feel the joy, but also the sadness, fear and loneliness.\u2028This type of courtship with the past is not always pleasant. It demands sensitive and critical self-analysis. But the perspective is the same and present every place in the world where people have been subjected to the dark side of the human mind: threats, humiliation and torture.\u2028I have intentionally written this work to also be therapeutic, so that it can help restore people\u2019s moral memory. This is essential, so that political and economic crises never again destroy our world, our country or ourselves as people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Documentary film<\/strong><\/h3>\n

“Sisters Across the Gulf of Finland”<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\"Soome<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Sisters Across the Gulf of Finland<\/a><\/h6>\n

Director: Imbi PajuScenario: Imbi PajuCamera: Ants Martin VahurMontage: Riitta Poikselk\u00e4Music: Arvo P\u00e4rt, Lepo SumeraProduction: Pille R\u00fcnk, Allfilm (Estonia), Tiina Butter, Filmmagica (Finland)<\/p>\n

Documentary, 200959 minutes<\/p>\n

The elderly women in the film \u201d\u201d<\/strong>Sisters across the Gulf of Finland\u201d have all experienced hard times, but with their warm and kind nature, they give the viewer hope that good can defeat evil. In the light of their humanity we can see the darker side of mankind, that which comes to the fore through political violence, when people are forced to remain silent, to withdraw into themselves and to forget. The past is connected to the present when we see UN Special Representative Elisabeth Rehn, herself once a Girl Lotta, assisting civilian victims in crisis areas. The film shows how the patterns of violence tied to war keep repeating regardless of time or place.<\/p>\n

Transcending Time<\/strong>Review by Roland Campbell<\/strong> :The film (Sisters Across te Gulf of Finland)tells the story of the bond between the women\u2019s military auxiliary movements in Estonia and Finland, leading up to and during WWII and their subsequent disbandment and omission from popular history. The story is told by way of present day interviews with former members of the movement and rare archival footage from WWII. The interviews, pristine in appearance, provided personal time-filtered recollections of various elderly members compared to the grainy black and white archival footage which allowed for historical context and drove the narrative forward. They both act as windows to the past, one through the eyes, the window to the soul and the other through the lens of a camera.Toronto, Estdocs 09<\/p>\n

A quote by Imbi Paju <\/strong><\/h2>\n
<\/span>\u201cThereby, the belief that remembering is a deeply ethical act that will not let us lose our morality and ethics, is innate to us as human beings. However, heartlessness and amnesia also walk hand-in-hand. There is simply too much injustice in the world, and too many memories arising from this injustice.\u201d<\/h5>\n

Book covers<\/h2>\n

\"Soome<\/span>\"Soome<\/span>\"Soome<\/span>\"Soome<\/span><\/p>\n

Timeline<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n

\"Sisters<\/span><\/p>\n

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