Video of Marshal Mannerheim's burial

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http://www.yle.fi/elavaarkisto/?s=s&g=1&ag=6&t=239&a=3020

I think it should be viewable internationally. On the 28th it will be 60 years since his death.

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Mannerheimin kuolemasta 60 vuotta
28.1.2011 1:26 | Päivitetty: 28.1.2011 1:35 | Kommentit A A

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Marsalkka Mannerheimin kuolemasta on tänään kulunut 60 vuotta.

Mannerheimin muistoksi järjestetään puolenpäivän aikaan kansalaisjärjestöjen kunnianosoitus Hietaniemen hautausmaalla. Yleisölle avoimessa tilaisuudessa lasketaan seppeleet hautapaadelle ja sankariristille.

Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim kuoli 83-vuotiaana Lausannessa Sveitsissä. Hänet haudattiin Hietaniemen sankarihautausmaalle 4. helmikuuta 1951.

MTV3:n uutiset kertoi torstaina, että Mannerheimin tarkasta kuolinpäivästä on olemassa kaksi erilaista tulkintaa. Todellinen kuolinpäivä oli jo torstaina, vaikka Suomessa Mannerheimin muistoa kunnioitetaankin vasta tänään.

Suomalaisten omaksuma tulkinta sai alkunsa Suomen ja Sveitsin välisestä aikaerosta. Mannerheim kuoli 27.tammikuuta kello 23.30.

Kuoleman katsottiin tapahtuneen Suomen aikaa kuitenkin 00.30 seuraavan vuorokauden puolella.

Suomen aikaan perustuva kuolinpäivä on jäänyt Suomessa hakuteoksiin ja useisiin historiankirjoihin.

Professori Matti Klinge sanoi MTV3:lle, että molemmat tulkinnat ovat hyväksyttäviä.

"28. päivä tammikuuta oli monille kuitenkin tärkeä ja jopa pyhä päivä. Vapaussota Mannerheimin johdolla, venäläisten varuskuntien riisuminen aseista, alkoi juuri sunnuntaina 28. päivänä tammikuuta", Klinge huomauttaa.

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Today, Friday 28th January, marks the 60th anniversary of the death of Marshal Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Finland's wartime military commander and the country's 6th President during the years from 1944-46.

Or perhaps it does not, depending on how these things are calculated.

In any event, Mannerheim's many contributions to the State of Finland will be remembered on Friday by ceremonies at the Hietaniemi Cemetery in Helsinki, where he rests in a place of honour.

The event, which is open to the public, will see wreaths laid on Mannerheim's tomb and on the cross for the fallen in Finland's wars.

Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim died at the age of 83 in Lausanne in Switzerland.

He was buried with full military honours after a state funeral on February 4th, 1951.

The Thursday evening newscast of the commercial channel MTV3 raised the question of the two different interpretations of when precisely the Marshal - overwhelmingly voted the "Greatest Finn of all time" in a 2004 television series - passed on from this life.

His actual date of death was on the 27th, although all the honours are reserved here for the 28th.

The Finnish observances derive from a local interpretation based on the time-difference of one hour between Switzerland and Finland.

Mannerheim died at 23:30 on January 27th.

His death was nevertheless seen to have occurred at 00:30 Finnish time on the following morning, and the "Finnish time" version of the moment of his demise has found its way into reference books and numerous historical volumes.

The distinguished Finnish historian, Professor Matti Klinge, told MTV3 that in his view both interpretations are acceptable.

He noted further that for many the 28th was already an important and even sacred day in the calendar, since during the Finnish Civil War of 1918, when Mannerheim led the White forces to victory, it was precisely on the 28th January 1918 that the Whites began the disarmament of Russian garrisons.

Mannerheim initially served as an officer in the Imperial Russian Army, rising to the rank of Lieutenant-General.

After his involvement in the Civil War and the securing of Finnish independence, during the 1920s and 1930s he did not hold any public office, but headed the Finnish Red Cross and founded the Mannerheim League for Child Welfare.

Called back to arms as a Field Marshal in 1939 on occasion of the Soviet invasion, he commanded the Finnish forces in the Winter War of 1939-40 and the Continuation War of 1941-44, and stepped into the position of President - elected by Parliament - in 1944 on the resignation of Risto Ryti.

His presidency was short and troubled by ill-health, hardly surprisingly, since he was already in his late 70s, and he resigned the post in March 1946, being succeeded by his then Prime Minister, J.K. Paasikivi.

Mannerheim spent much of the last five years of his life in Switzerland, writing his memoirs, which were still not in their finished form at the time of his passing.

HS (http://www.hs.fi/english/article/60th+anniversary+of+the+death+of+wartime+commander +and+post-war+President+CGE+Mannerheim+1867-1951/1135263377907)