Saksalaisten sotilaiden lapset. Ulkomaalaisten sotilaiden lapset ...

Soviet prisoners of war. Soviet prisoners of war stationed on farms probably did
not have condoms. They may have had them when they were captured, but Finnish
soldiers often emptied their pockets when searching them. Wagons with condoms
were among the equipment captured when the Ukrainian 44 th Division was
captured along the Raate Road in January 1940.
It was difficult for farm wives, farmers' daughters, maids, and women working on
the farms to acquire contraceptives due to strict social controls. Getting condoms in
the countryside was generally difficult. Although condoms could be bought freely
from drug stores in the cites and population centers, many women could not
overcome their shyness and buy them. In addition, buying condoms could easily
provoke suspicions of an illicit affair.
Some prisoners of war could have made their own condoms from materials
available on the farm. The reliability of these primitive condoms would often
certainly have been poor.
Soviet officers and officials attached to the Allied Control Commission. Members
of the Allied Control Commission would have brought condoms manufactured in
their home countries with them. Soviet soldiers headed west during World War
Two were equipped with thick walled, Soviet manufactured condoms intended for
multiple use.
There were relatively few children of foreign soldiers in Finland
The purpose of this investigation has been to examine the traces left by foreign
soldiers in the data on population statistics for the war years of 1939-1944.
Altogether 468,269 children were born between 1940 and 1945; a period in which
there were 10,016 stillborn children. Since it seems that only approximately a
thousand children of foreign soldiers were born during this period, their share of
the overall population is less than 0.2% in size. In spite of the small numbers
however, there are some good preconditions in place to look at the children of
foreign soldiers because these men were stationed, stayed, or were chiefly in
particular localities and regions.
Over 11,000 foreign volunteers arrived in Finland during the Winter War (1939-
1940). Only a couple thousand of them made it to the front. The other nearly 9,000
of them spent their time in the rear areas, generally in the cities, other population
centers, or nearby. Thus, foreign volunteers had good opportunities to make the
acquaintance of young women in the rear areas. A small portion of the volunteers
in the rear areas courted members of the Finnish voluntary military auxilary for
women (Lottas) or other local women. Because we know where the volunteers
were stationed, it is possible to investigate the births of illegitimate children in
those localities in particular between 1940 and 1941.
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