The Struggle

This book is a translation of the core message and text from my book “jotta totuus ei unohtuisi - the truth not to be forgotten” published in Finnish in 2004.

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This decision of mine to start mapping the milestones of my life was just such a coincidence. For several years I had resigned from active work, and suddenly at the beginning of 2004, I experienced a revival. “I must put my life on paper, telling my story to generations coming after me.”
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It takes the passing of at least one or preferably two generations before a controversial issue can raise its head again objectively. Although a wise person once said that when an issue is being debated, it has already become a dogma. Knowledge itself is not subject to debate, but new knowledge must overcome the inertia of dogma.