I hope that he won't be too harshly punished. And these days not everyone can recognize a Suomi automatic rifle, although that is really quite easy. 'And he had no idea what Soviet or Finnish soldiers wore at the time. 'Probably some young bureaucrat was looking for an appropriate photograph on the Internet - a soldier with a reindeer,' Halonen said. Halonen's son, Johannes Halonen, said his family and everyone he knows immediately recognized the uniform and the weapon shown in the Russian poster as Finnish. He was drafted in 1941 and served in the supply troops, using reindeer to transport ammunition and supplies to the front lines and to bring wounded soldiers back to the rear. The soldier in the poster was quickly identified as Klemet Jouni Jeremias Halonen, who was born in 1910 in a village near Finland's border with Norway and who died in 1974. 'We have a Labor Code and, I imagine, something will be done within that framework.' 'What kind of punishment might there be,' the head of the Usinsk municipal Department of Culture, Oksana Gavrilova, told RFE/RL. The Usinsk administration pledged to 'strictly punish' those responsible and the local prosecutor's office warned municipal officials about 'the unacceptability of violating the laws against extremism.'

Finnish winter war uniform