Welcome to yet another spin-off to
Macragge1's amazing timeline,
Protect and Survive.
My intention in this TL is to detail the international crisis of 1983-84, the nuclear war of 1984 and the following events as I imagine they might have affected my home nation of Finland. I have chosen an (for me) experimental format, so please do comment and offer your thoughs on the text and the events.
The TL's title is not merely for effect. I intend to use Finnish music and bits of lyrics as part of the story. Many of these will be classic songs from the late 70s and early 80s, ones I could imagine
the people in the TL would have listened in their everyday lives. But some will be from the 90s and 00s, added because I feel they suit the feel and events of the TL. All translations (such as they are) of the lyrics are by yours truly.
Here is a song from 1994. It is not contemporary with the TLs events, but I think it captures what I intend this TL to be in both its general feel and the story perfectly.
CMX - Talvipäivänseisaus
snow in every direction
no road anywhere
I am returning
to where I started
a silver moon shines
lights the cold skies
I am looking for the way
trying to estimate the distance
(chorus)
did I finally begin my journey
towards that fabled North
which is always far away
which you won't meet on the road
this year the crops are failing
the cattle bears no offspring
children freeze in wombs
and the love for life dies
on the riverbank, its eastern side
I will suffocate to my cough
embracing the cold for warmth
now past the steps and the well
through the park and if there's frost
past the observatory
and through the woods over the hill
to the springs
where the water is running black
there lies a pale boy
from whose mouth a child's life
pours to the water
(chorus)
did I finally begin my journey
towards that fabled North
which is always far away
which you wont meet on the road
Consider this an introduction to
The Land of Sad Songs – Stories From Protect and Survive Finland
The story begins in the next post. I hope you enjoy the timeline.
-DF-
(filler)