Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Leaving the old border behind

Leaving the old border behind

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Original – Finnish soldiers crossing the old 1939 border (Treaty of Tartu) during the 1941 offensive phase of the Continuation War against the Soviet Union. The crossing is from Tohmajärvi, Finland, to Pälksaari (now the area of Ozero Pyalk-Yarvi, Russia). Regaining the old border, lost during the Winter War, had been presented by the Finnish government as one of the justifications to launch the war.

Reason: Historic and good quality image illustrates the article and event well
Articles in which this image appears: Continuation War
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/World War II
Creator: Lieutenant Eronen

Support as nominator – Manelolo (talk) 10:15, 1 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

2nd iconic candidate pic of Finland in WW2 and by far the best one of any "border crossing" pics from the war. I've tried to make the caption neutral as possible, but this event had profound effects and moral scrutiny attached to it. I believe some authors have called the point of crossing the old, original border turning the war from "national defence and righting the wrongs" to "foreign conquest." Likewise, the Allies pressured Finland to stop their advance after the war became morally more ambiguous. The title of the pic is an amended translation from the original caption "Miehet jättävät rajan taakseen" = "Men leaving the border behind." I've cropped a watermark and scan remnants, but otherwise left it alone. Manelolo (talk) 10:27, 1 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I withdraw my nomination Ack! After further research and verification, this is a pic from the start of the invasion and not the "old border" in fact; the caption left by a former editor on the pic had me fooled. Apologies, will amend text on the file page accordingly and repropose later. Manelolo (talk) 12:06, 1 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Manelolo (talk) 13:37, 1 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Self-withdrawn nomination. Manelolo (talk) 13:37, 1 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]