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In the early 1980s rockabilly was also re-fashionable in Finland, with The Stray Cats being the most famous representatives of the style.


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Heavy metal, however, supplanted rockabilly in popularity by the mid-1980s.


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Zero Nine was one of the first serious heavy rock creators in Finland.


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Hard rock band Gringos Locos was a major review success, whose success abroad attracted much attention in the press.


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Many bands that started in the late 1970s made the peak success of their careers in the 1980s.


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Among the singers and songwriters, the top names were Hector, Juice Leskinen and Pave Maijanen.


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Their classics include Hector's Koko Hela World (1980), Juice Leskinen's Eesti (On My Mind) (1983) and Pave Maijasen Lätisitkö (1984).


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Paul Oxley's Unit was probably Finland's most popular band from summer 1981 to autumn 1982, and especially its record Living in the Western World (1981) is a sales success.


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In the 1980s, J. Karjalainen performed songs with the Black Lasit line-up, and his hits include Anchor (1982) and Doris (1985).


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More popular music was performed by Rauli “Bading” Somerjoki, Mikko Alatalo, Irwin Goodman and stand-up comedian Jaakko Teppo.


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Known for his retes and often humorous rallies, Irwin Goodman sang mainly with Irwin's band Children in the 1980s, and he recorded, among others, the classics Härmäläinen basic hillbilly (1984) and Rentu rose (1988).


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Rauli “Bading” Somerjoki's evergreen classics on the other hand include Stars, Stars (1983) and Ships (1985).


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Some of the most popular iskelmi singers of the 1980s were Tapani Kansa, Reijo Kallio, Kari Tapio, Jamppa Tuominen, Paula Koivuniemi, Lea Laven, Katri Helena, Anita Hirvonen, Matti and Teppo and Topi Sorsakoski.


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A lot of translation instances were still being recorded.


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Evergreen translations include many of Paula Koivuniemi's hits, including Mature Woman (1982) and Kuuleeko Night (1987), as well as Kari Tapion Olen Finnish (1983).


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On the other hand, there were also many domestic tunes recorded in the 1980s, among which are known for example Katri Helena's Mun My Heart Is Here (1980), Mati and Tepo's Mä Work Every Day (1982) and Jamppa Tuominen's Hot Tears (1983).


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Mat and Tepo's albums sold in the hundreds of thousands, the biggest sales successes are the albums You Can't Come Border (1981) and Take Care of Yourself (1982).


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Topi Sorsakoski has recorded a number of highly selling records with the Agents lineup.


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The evergreen hits include Eve (1986), Two Guitars (1987) and It's Summer Night (1988).


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Among the new arrivals of the decade were Tarja Ylitalo, Meiju Suvas, Mona Carita, Kake Randelin, Ahti Lampi and Taneli Mäkelä.


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Well-known songs include Tarja Ylitalo's Kerrasta Across (1980), Meiju Suvaksen Will You (1982) and Kake Randelin's Ava hakas (1983).


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Mona Carita again performed translation disco music, and her best-known hits include Anna, gold anna (1981).


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A slightly older knee that started his career in the 1950s was represented by Eino Grön and Reijo Taipale.


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Ensembles that played Iskelmämusic were Soloistiyhtye Suomi, Finlanders and Souvarit.


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At least Juha Vainio, Vexi Salmi, Chrisse Johansson and Raul Reiman were the most diligent lyricists.


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Music Programs The first radio programme specifically specialising in rock music, Rockradio started in the then Yleisradio parallel programme in early June 1980.


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Hittimittari was an iskelmä and rock programme started by Yle in 1984 that patched holes in the music supply of Finnish television.


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Ocsid (the name is the word disco spelled backwards) was a radio show focused on disco and dance music.


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It was among the first of its kind in Finland.


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Radio journalists specializing in rock and pop music included Tero Liete, Juhani Kanta, Tapani Ripatti, Heimo “Holle” Holopainen and Outi Popp, many of them musicians themselves.


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The annual Autumn Sole television show experienced a peak in popularity during the 1980s.


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The program was changed in 1987 from a competition open to all in structure to an invitational competition.


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Jonna Tervomaa started her career as a child star with the song Minttu and Ville, with which she won the Autumn tune in 1983.


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In the 1980s, Mikko Alatalo won the Autumn tune three times with his songs Rikoo on Risk Ugly (1980), Mummoni and sledgehammer throw (1981) and Minna (1986).


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Autumn tune classic has also remained at least the wipes of Kirkan Sorrow from my eyes (1988).


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As the Humppa craze waned, the Lappeenranta Hump Festivals ended at the end of the decade, but were replaced by the Seinäjoki Tangommarket held since 1985.


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An annual tango king was chosen in the tango market, and since 1987, a tango queen was also chosen.


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Kauko Simonen was chosen as the first tango king and Arja Sipola as the first tango queen.


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The Saturday dances, hosted by Heikki Hietamies, who achieved fame as a writer, were among the most popular television shows especially among the more grown up people.


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Journalist Ilpo Hakasalo, who gained a reputation for extensive industry expertise, made radio programmes focused on iskelmi music and, together with Peter von Bagh, published the Iskelmö Golden Book in 1986, which received the State Information Disclosure Award.


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Finland at Eurovisas in the 1980s Finland participated in the Eurovision Song Contest every year.


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Some of the most memorable cases are the 1982 Eurovision, where Kojo represented Finland with the song Nuku bomb, finishing in last place without getting a single point, and the 1989 Eurovisut, where Finland's representative piece was Anneli Saaristo's La dolce vita.


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La dolce vita was until 2006 the best ranking in Finland in relation to the number of participating countries; it came seventh, receiving 76 points.


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Kirkan Hanging Out (1984) and Sonja Lumpeen Live Life (1985) also did moderately well: both came ninth.


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The vocal language was not yet free, everyone was performing in Finnish.


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Spiritual music An important representative of the spiritual music of the 1980s was Viktor Klimenko, who performed mainly in Pentecostal parishes and churches.


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He has released several albums of spiritual music, including Jesus is the Lord (1981) in both Finnish and Swedish.


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The album sold gold in both Finland and Sweden.


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Other music-related CD entered the market in the 1980s, but sales of C cassettes were still at their peak.


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Music was often listened to on earlobe stereos.


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We pay the debt was in 1985 appeared Help!


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A charity piece by the orchestra to raise funds for famine victims.


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Ears open again is a Finnish cultural association founded in 1977 to promote and promote new Finnish music and which has made a significant contribution to bringing modern European art music to Finland.


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Juhani Merimaa, CEO of Helsinki-based rock club Tavastia has been considered the most respected and respected influence in Finnish rock business.


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[36] The music also featured a campaign to bring middle beer to the kiosks, especially with Sleepy Sleepers' song Beer to the kiosks (1981).


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Cinema Finnish cinema new in the 1980s almost perfectly: many old directors made their last films, but at the same time laid the groundwork for many future success stories.


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The new wave and internationalization brought with them many new genres.


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The decade can be considered a golden age of film culture, as a huge amount of film literature appeared in the 1980s and several film festivals that proved to be permanent were established.


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In 1984, Yleisradio and the Finnish Film Foundation entered into an agreement on pre-purchases, i.e. YLE undertook to purchase a certain number of films supported by the Finnish Film Foundation.


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The line between television production and big screen film began to blur.


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Some of the premieres in the 1980s were primarily television productions, for which a limited theatrical spread was also favoured.


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In terms of the economics of the film business, the 1980s proved contradictory.


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Finnkino Oy, built on the foundation of the Mäkelö family Kinostoto group in 1986, achieved a practical monopoly in the field.


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The upheavals in the media world, especially the breakthrough of home video reduced the audience of cinemas, but on the other hand, television and video distribution brought viewers to the cinema for the second season, and many older domestic films were given a further life.


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At the end of the decade, the viewership of domestic films fell from the peak reading in 1986 (23%) to just 10%.


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The cost of producing films increased considerably, which also led to a crisis in the film industry.


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[37] A new wave when the 1980s came new were films depicting the lives of young people, such as Tapio Suominen's Here I Come, Life!


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(1980) and Mikko Niskasen Ajolähtö (1982).


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Film directors who debuted in the 1980s include Taavi Kassila (The Archer, 1982), Matti Ijäs (Comedian, 1983) and Janne Kuusu (Year of the Monkey, 1983).


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Lauri Törhönen's first work, the drama film Burning Angel (1984) shocked and provoked public debate and criticism of the methods of psychiatry.


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One of the most perplexing films of the 1980s is the naughty sex comedy Pi pi pil... pill (1982) directed by Visa Mäkinen under the pseudonym.


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On the crest of the wave of young authors and subjects, brothers Aki and Mika Kaurismäki, who had their own production company Villealfa Filmproductions Oy, rode to become the most prominent directors of their generation.


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Initially, Mika Kaurismäki worked as director and Aki as screenwriter, and their films from the 1980s include Liar (1981), Worthless (1982) and Klaani (1984).


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Aki Kaurismäki opened his own directing career with films Crime and Punishment (1983) and Calamari Union (1985).


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The brothers” films rose to cult fame in Finland and quickly attracted attention abroad.


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Many other directors also seek to guarantee artistic independence by acting as their own producers themselves.


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A distinctive example is Anssi Mäntäri, who scripted and directed up to 11 films between 1982 and 1986.


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His production emphasizes archival realism and satiricism, and his works include the trilogy Toto (1982), Regina and Men (1983), and the King Leaves for France (1986), based on Paavo Haaviko's play.


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The visible cultural phenomena of the time can be seen in films of the 1980s.


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Musicians from Suomirock's hero period came to prominence in several films by the Kaurismäki brothers, such as Saimaa Phenomenö (1981) and Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989) and Jouko Lehmuskallio's Rokki Diggari (1981).


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Janne Kuusen's first-born film The Year of the Monkey was created on the basis of Harri Sirola's shrugged novel Abiturientti, after which Kuuku co-produced the documentary Song (1986) and the surrealist comedy Emme Iines (1987).


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To counterbalance topicality, there was also an ambitious dialogue with the classics of world literature.


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Aki Kaurismäki's Crime and Punishment and Timo Linnasalo's Aikalainen (1984) are born on the basis of Dostoevsky's works, while Aki Kaurismäki's Hamlet in the business world (1987) and Pauli Pentin Macbeth (1987) are born on the basis of Shakespeare.


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Markku Lehmuskallio's films, such as Korpinpolska (1980), dealt originally with the relationship between man and nature.


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The timeless issues of art and artists were approached by epoch films such as Tulipää (1980) and Da Capo (1985) by Pirjo Honkasalo and Pekka Lehdo (1985) and Jaakko Pakkasvirta's Mark of the Beast (1981).


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[37] Traditional films Like the previous decade, the most popular films were still Rauni Mollberg's films and Spede Pasanen's productions.


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Successful works by Mollberg included Milka — a film about taboos (1980) and the Unknown Soldier (1985, in order, another Unknown Soldier film).


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Up to eight Uuno Turhapuro films appeared during the decade, the most watched being Ere Kokkonen's Uuno Turhapuro in the Army (1984) and Uuno in Epsanja (1985).


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Spede Pasanen produced some of the Uuno Turhapuro films, and also several films built around characters tried in TV skits, such as Hei kliffaa hei (directed by Ere Kokkonen, 1985) and Onks' Viljoo visible?


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(directed by Hannu Seikkula, 1988).


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Visa Mäkinen's distinctive genre became established as an adventure comedy (example Fugitive All Kinds, 1981).


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Mäkinen also continued the 1950-60s Pekka Puupää series with the films Pekka & Pätkä and double jackpot (1985) and Pekka Puupää as police (1986).


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They are the last Pekka and Pätkä films that many considered to be a denigration of the “original” Woodheads.


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Edvin Laine made his last films The Man of Akato (1983) and The Actual Man (1986), which dealt with vanishing country life.


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After him, the flag of traditional epic realism was carried by Pekka Parikka in his films based on Antti Tuuri's novels Ostrobothnia (1988) and Talvisota (1989).


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After Laine decided his career in the field was only Matti Kassila, who once again brought Hella Wuolijoki and F.


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E. Sillanpää's production in his films Niskavuori (1984) and The Loveliness and Misery of Humanelo (1988).


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Mikko Niskanen also returned to the lost peasant Finland in his last works, Kalle Päätalo filmatizations The Vonkamies of Life (1986) and Youth Savotat (1988).


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[37] Internationalisation of the late 1980s The golden age of the end of the years of casino economy and yuppie culture prompted a multilingual cinematographer from Lauri Törhöse, who has directed the films Undressing (1986), Tropic of Ice — Ice Turning Circle (1987) and Insiders (1989).


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Finland's orientation towards the West prompted openings in American popular genres, exemplified by Renny Harlin's action film Jäätava polte (1986) and Olli Soinio's horror film Kuutamosonati (1988).


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Harlin opened up a career as a Hollywood director, and Finnish cinema began to gain a slight foothold abroad.


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Approximately one third of the Finnish films of the 1980s were sold abroad and more than half were shown at foreign festivals, thanks in particular to the intensified cultural exchange of the Finnish Film Foundation.


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Internationalization was led by the Kaurismäki brothers, who began to get more and more foreign collaborators for financing and sales of their films.


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Mika Kaurismäki started his long way as a director of international co-productions with the film Helsinki Napoli All Night Long (1987).


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Aki Kaurismäki was the first Finn to enter the front row of world film directors with the “laborer-” or “loser trilogy” Shadows in Paradise (1986) and Ariel (1988).


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[37] Used actors The most used actors in domestic films of the 1980s included Eeva Eloranta, Kari Heiskanen, Juuso Hirvikangas, Tapio Hämäläinen, Aake Kalliala, Heikki Kinnunen, Vesa-Matti Loiri, Taneli Mäkelä, Marita Nordberg, Kati Outinen, Matti Pellonpää, Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Paavo Piskonen, Marjatta Raita, Esko Salminen, Elina Salo, Leena Suomu, Markku Toikka, Timo Torikka and Vesa Vierikko.


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Most viewed films Most watched Finnish films 1980—1989 (in Finnish cinemas): [37] Uuno Turhapuro in army work (Ere Kokkonen, 1984) viewers 750 965 Winter War (Pekka Parikka, 1989) viewers 628 767 Uuno Epsanja (Ere Kokkonen, 1985) viewers 607 939 Unknown soldier (Rauni Mollberg, 1985) viewers 590 902 Uuno Turhapuro lose their memory (Ere Kokkonen, 1982) viewers 572 488 Uuno Turhapuro move to the country (Ere Kokkonen, 1986) viewers 556 519 Uuno Turhapuro marital crisis (Ere Kokkonen, 1981) viewers 452 656 Here we come, life!


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(Tapio Suominen, 1980) viewers 382 024 Uuno Turhapuro's memory burns in snatches (Ere Kokkonen, 1983) viewers 381 181 Uuno Turhapuro double agent (Spede Pasanen, 1987) viewers 352,205.


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See also: List of Finnish films of the 1980s Sports The most successful Finnish athletes of the 1980s include Matti Nykänen, one of the best ski jumpers of all time in the world.


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Nykänen won almost all of his medals in the 1980s.


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He won three gold medals at the Sarajevo Olympics 1984 and at the Calgary Olympics in 1988.


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At the World Championships in the 1980s, Nykänen has won a total of seven World Championship gold medals.


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Jari Puikkonen is also a multiple world ski jumping champion who has won one Olympic gold and four World Cup golds in the 1980s.


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Harri Kirvesniemi won one World Championship gold and one World Championship silver in cross-country skiing in 1989.


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Even before this he had won several World Championship bronze medals.


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Kirvesniemi was also involved in setting the 100 × 1,000 m relay world record in May 1986, running with a time of 2.33.9.


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His wife Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi is one of Finland's most successful female skiers, having won three Olympic gold medals in Sarajevo 1984 and two World Championship golds in 1989.


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He has also received several silver and bronze medals.


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Juha Mieto was also very successful, gaining a pair of silvers and two bronzes.


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The most notable Finnish ice hockey player of the 1980s is perhaps Jari Kurri, who was playing in the NHL at the time, representing several different ice hockey clubs.


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Kurri is the NHL's fourth-best European scorer of all time, and on the NHL regular season all-time points exchange, he is ranked 21st.


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Teemu Seläntee's main serial career began at the end of the decade.


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The Finnish ice hockey national team received silver at the 1988 Calgary Olympics, which, apart from European Championship medals, was the first ever medal won by a Finnish ice hockey national team.


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Keke Rosberg was the first Finn to win the Formula One World Championship in 1982, after driving in the Williams stable.


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The Finns also excelled in the rally: Ari Vatanen won the World Rally Championship in 1981, Hannu Mikkola in 1983, Timo Salonen in 1985 and Juha Kankkunen in 1986 and 1987.


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The world's first World Championships in Athletics took place at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium in August 1983.


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Finland came in shared eighth place at the Games, winning one gold, one silver and one bronze.


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Gold was won by Tiina Lillak in the javelin throw, silver by Arto Bryggare in the 110 metre hurdles and bronze by Martti Vainio in the 5000 metres run.


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Leisure in the 1980s gyms and tanning salons punched themselves through as an ancillary product of yuppie culture, and leisure time began to be consumed even more at ski resorts.


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Windsurfing was an integral part of yuppie culture.


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Finland in the 1980s

In winter, there was a ski box on the roof of the car, in summer a sailboard.


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Many summer resorts for the whole family were completed at a rapid pace during the decade: Visulahti in Mikkeli opened in 1980, Puuhamaa in Tervakoski 1984, Tykkimäki in Kouvola 1986, JukuJukumaa in Kalajoki (now Jukupark) in 1986, Wasalandia in Vaasa 1988 and Serena in Espoo 1989.


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American trends were adopted at a breakneck pace: rap music, rollerblading and skateboarding, for example, became popular among youth.


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VHS videos and video equipment came, and video rental stores could also rent a video viewer connected to the TV by an antenna cord to the home for video viewing if you didn't own that device yourself.


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At home, popular pastime included the Rubik's Cube and the Trivial Pursuit.


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RPGs also became more common in the 1980s.


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Finland in the 1980s

Tourism became even more common.


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Finland in the 1980s

Along with Spain and Greece, Turkey and long-distance travel grew in popularity.


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Finland in the 1980s

A hit of the time were active holidays, tours, as well as various recreational trips to sports competitions and cultural events.


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[38] The most noticeable fashion phenomena of the fashion 1980s were oversized clothing embellished with neon colours and logos, wide-leg trousers, up to the navel, shoulder pads, sailing shoes and sleeve wrapping.


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Wide belts and scarves were often used as ornaments.


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Finland in the 1980s

Especially many women permed their hair into a huge curly hair.


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Finland in the 1980s

In time, elastane was also popular: elastane, especially familiar from swimwear, was also used in outerwear.


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The boom was also evident in clothing fashion: expensive and expensive-looking brand clothing, as well as large, distinctive logos, created the impression of wealth and high standard of living.


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In general look, the fashion of the 1980s was colorful and cheerful.


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Finland in the 1980s

Women's clothing came under several influences from men's fashions: shoulder pads and jackets and trouser suits supplanted the use of dresses and created success for women in manly fields such as banks and industrial enterprises.


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Finland in the 1980s

The dress also came with influences from stars of the music world such as Madonna, Michael Jackson and the native Dingo.


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The dress of Diana, Princess of Wales, was also closely watched.


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Finland in the 1980s

Influences were also sought from popular television series such as Dallas and Dynasty.


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Finland in the 1980s

[39] [40] Food and Drink The most popular dishes in the 1980s were traditional mince foods (for example meatballs, minced meat sauce and pasta box), whole meat dishes (pork chops and meat soup for example), sausage sauce, chicken jelly, fish soup, omelette and pizza.


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Finland in the 1980s

Popular coffee table items included pasties, buns, suede pieces and cream cakes.


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Finland in the 1980s

Vegetables and fruits became more popular.


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Finland in the 1980s

Influenced by the fat debate that began at the end of the previous decade, margarine overtook butter as the most popular fat.


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Finland in the 1980s

[41] The assortments of grocery stores grew, and exotic additions were received to the dining table, among them kiwi.


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Finland in the 1980s

Alongside the potatoes rose rice and pasta.


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Finland in the 1980s

In addition to traditional salt and pepper, dishes began to be seasoned with garlic, herbs and chili, for example.


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Finland in the 1980s

Imported foodstuffs were still limited, however, because when Finland was not yet a member of the European Union, high import tariffs protected domestic agriculture and food production.


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Finland in the 1980s

For example, imported fruits were obtained mainly in winter and spring, when domestic apples and berries were not available.


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Finland in the 1980s

[42] In the 1980s, men became increasingly involved in cooking.


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Finland in the 1980s

Various kitchen gadgets, such as toasters and waffle irons, became common over the decade.


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Finland in the 1980s

Microwave ovens became widespread at the end of the decade: still in 1985 only one in 20 Finnish households had one, but already in 1990 a microwave oven was owned by three out of five households.


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[43] Eating at the restaurant and fast food culture made a breakthrough in Finland in the 1980s.


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Finland in the 1980s

[44] At the beginning of the decade Burger King would visit Finland for a few years.


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Finland's first McDonald's opened in 1984 in Tampere.


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Finland in the 1980s

Consumption of alcoholic beverages, especially middle beer, increased with the rise in living standards through the 1980s until the early 1990s depression.


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Finland in the 1980s

[45] The growth in wine consumption, which began in the 1960s, accelerated considerably after the mid-1980s.


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Finland in the 1980s

[46] Some of the most popular drinks in bars included blue angel and cocktails with bitter.


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In the 1980s, the dead in Finland had to mourn the passing of the following notable figures: Rafael Paasio (1903—1980), social democratic politician, former Prime Minister and Speaker of Parliament Gustav Vilkuna (1902—1980), researcher and academician of folk and linguistics Nevanlinna (1895—1980), mathematician and academician Georg Malmstén (1902—1981), singer, musician and composer Joel Rinne (1897—1981), actor and academician Jukka Rangell (1894—1982), wartime Prime Minister Ville Ritola (1896—1982), endurance runner and Olympic champion Tauno Palo (1908—1982), a charismatic actor and singer, Pentti Saarikoski (1937—1983), was one of the most prominent poets and writers of post-war Finland.


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Fagerholm (1901—1984), Social Democratic politician, former Prime Minister of Social Affairs and Social Affairs, Speaker of Parliament and State Counsellor Konsta Jylhä (1910—1984), Master Pelimanni A.


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F. Airo (1896—1985), Tapio Wirkkala, general of the Winter and Continuation War (1915—1985), designer and sculptor Tauno Nurmela (1907—1985), linguist and academician Armas-Eino Martola (1896—1986), Icage general Urho Kekkonen (1900—1986), longest-serving in Finnish history President Rauli Bading Somerjoki (1947—1987), singer, composer and lyricist Ella Eronen (1900—1987), actress and recitation artist Esa Pakarinen (1911—1989), folk artist, accordion player, singer, actor and comedian Pekka Kuusu (1917—1989), Social Democratic MP and Minister Kaj Franck (1911—1989), internationally renowned pottery and glass designer Edvin Laine (1905—1989), one of Finland's most famous theatre and film directors.


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Sources, Yle 10.4.2014/11.5.2015 References on the topic elsewhere Category:1980s Category:History of independent Finland


Question: What is the population of Hamburg?

Hamburg

Hamburg ([ˈhambk], [ˈhambːːχ]) is the second largest city in Germany (after Berlin) and the country's most important port.


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Hamburg

It is located in northern Germany along the lower reaches of the Elbe.


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The city's official name, Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg (Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg), is a reminder of its membership in the medieval Hanseatic League and the fact that Hamburg remains a city-state () and one of the sixteen states of Germany ().


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Hamburg

The neighbouring states of Hamburg are Schleswig-Holstein to the north and Lower Saxony (Lower Saxony) to the south.


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Hamburg

The administrative area of the city and state of Hamburg is 755 km², on which about 1.9 million people live.


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Hamburg

[1] An additional 750000 people live in the areas of urban settlement surrounding Hamburg.


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Hamburg

The most widely concepted Hamburg metropolitan area includes 18100 km², with a population of four million people.


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Hamburg

Geography Hamburg lies along the Elbe about 100 kilometres from the North Sea.


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Hamburg

The Elbe estuary stretches from the North Sea as far as Hamburg.


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Hamburg

The Elbe flows through Hamburg from east to west, and the town centre is on the north bank of the Elbe.


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Hamburg

There the Elbeen is lowered from the north by the tributary Alster, the lower reaches of which is dammed into two reservoirs, Binnenalster and Außenalster.


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Hamburg

Binnenalster is located right in the centre of the town and is flanked by wide promenades and markets.


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Hamburg

Außenalster is much larger and extends for about three kilometres from the centre.


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Hamburg

Its beaches are largely park.


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Hamburg

Climate Hamburg prevails with a maritime climate.


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Hamburg

Westerly winds cool summers and mild winters.


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Hamburg

The average temperature for the year in the 1971—2000 season was 9.0 °C.


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Hamburg

[2] The warmest month is July with an average temperature of 17.4°C, the coldest turn January with an average temperature of 1.3°C.


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Hamburg

In summer, the temperature exceeds 28°C on several days.


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Hamburg

The city's temperature record, 38.5°C, was measured on July 20, 2006.


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Hamburg

[3] The climate is humid at all times of the year.


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Hamburg

Annual rainfall averages 773 mm (773 L/m²).


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Hamburg

On an average of 52 days each year, the city is covered in a veil of fog.


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Hamburg

The winter half of the year is often stormy.


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Hamburg

One characteristic feature of Hamburg's climate is the so-called “Hamburger Schmuddelwetter” (“Hamburg Snow Weather”).


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Hamburg

To the west of the centre lies Altona, which once was an independent city but was annexed to Hamburg in 1937.


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Hamburg

History Prehistory Ice covered the area of present-day Hamburg during the most recent ice age.


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Hamburg

After the melting of the ice cap, an estimated 17,000 year period followed, during which nomads who practiced hunter-gatherer culture in the Elbe valley.


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Hamburg

Early Stone Age tools have been found in the Stellmoorer Tunneltal valley on the Rahlstedt—Ahrensburg border and at Fischbeker Heide Nature Reserve southwest of Harburg, suggesting a nomadic settlement.


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Hamburg

The oldest evidence of permanent settlement dates from the fourth century BCE.


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Hamburg

Megalithic tombs have been found in the Sachsenwald, east of Hamburg, which also suggest a prehistoric settlement.


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Hamburg

In antiquity, there are no archaeological displays of the arrival of Roman expeditions in the Hamburg area, so they belong to the ranks of legends.


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Hamburg

However, a place called Treva at the mouth of the River Alster was known to the Romans.


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Hamburg

Treva is considered the predecessor of present-day Hamburg.


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Hamburg

It was the junction of two significant north-south trade-roads from the Bronze Age all the way to Late Antiquity.


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Hamburg

One of the routes led from the North Sea shore to Venice, the other in turn to Marseille.


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Hamburg

The word Treva (also Trefa) is still used in Irish when speaking of Hamburg.


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Hamburg

The Saxons began colonizing the banks of the northern Elbe from the 3rd century onwards.


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Hamburg

A settlement was formed in the area of the present-day Old Town.


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Hamburg

[4] The migration flow lasted until the 5th century.


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Hamburg

Early and Heart Middle Ages In the early 8th century, the Franks led by Charles the Great, with the help of Slavic Obotrites, expelled the Saxons from the area of present-day Hamburg.


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Hamburg

[4] A church was built between the rivers Bille and Alster to serve as a base for the conversion of the “pagan” north (Schleswig-Holstein and Scandinavia) to Christianity.


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Hamburg

Hammaburg Castle was built to safeguard the church and settlers, the area of which was approximately 130 m x 130 m. The exact location of Hammaburg has not been able to be fully localised.


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Hamburg

Commercial activity crept into the castle's loins: an early trading post had arisen.


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Hamburg

[4] Charles the Great's son Louis the Pious founded a diocese in Hammaburg in 831.


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Hamburg

[4] Ansgar, the first bishop of the city, is known as the “Northern Apostle”, who conducted and led missionary work in Denmark and Sweden.


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Hamburg

In 845, a Danish fleet of Vikings surged up the Elbe river and disposed of the German settlement on the banks of the Elbe, including Hamburg, which at the time had about 500 inhabitants.


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Hamburg

Subsequently, the diocesan division was changed in 848, merging Hamburg and Bremen into the same diocese.


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Hamburg

In the early 9th century, Archbishop Adaldag built a new fortress to which artisans and merchants moved.


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Hamburg

The fortress was granted trading rights in 937 — the foundation for Hamburg's development into a major center of commerce had been laid.


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Hamburg

[4] The rapidly growing city was attacked by the Obotrites in 983, but it recovered swiftly.


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Hamburg

The old town had been rebuilt by the beginning of the second millennium.


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Hamburg

[5] The 10th century was marked by the struggle between secular and spiritual power.


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Hamburg

The Billungers were the city's power genus.


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Hamburg

Duke Bernhard II built the Neue Burg Castle, which later became known as Alsterburg.


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Hamburg

Archbishop Bezelin Alebrand built the Marian Church and a series of other spiritual buildings.


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Hamburg

They were the first stone houses in the Hamburg area.


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Hamburg

Hamburg flourished in 1043—1072.


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Hamburg

At that time trade relations were established with the east and north, all the way down to Greenland, Iceland and Finland.


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Hamburg

Obotrites who rebelled against tithes to the church invaded Hamburg in 1066 and 1072.


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Hamburg

The archbishop moved to Bremen, resulting in Hamburg losing its ecclesiastical grandeur status.


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Hamburg

In the 12th century, the Billungers gave way to the Schauenburg family.


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Hamburg

Adolf I von Schauenburg developed Hamburg: the Elbe marshland and islands were dammed and dried up to be habitable, the defensive lines of the city were extended.


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Hamburg

Adolf III founded Neustadt, or “New City”, just outside the Neue Burg.


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Hamburg

Voyagers and merchants moved into the new borough.


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Hamburg

Late Middle Ages Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa of the Holy German-Roman Empire is said to have granted Hamburg in 1189 a duty exemption and the right to order commerce throughout the lower reaches of the Elbe.


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Hamburg

The inhabitants of the town were exempt from conscription and only the care of the defences of their own town remained to their cause.


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Hamburg

However, the document, which is on display in the Hamburg City Museum, has been found to be a forgery from around 1265.


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Hamburg

[5] From 1201 until 1227 Hamburg was under Danish control.


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Hamburg

During the quarter-century-old period, Hamburg's new and old city grew together both architecturally and politically.


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Hamburg

Hamburg saw increased foreign and commercial independence; it entered into a trade union with, among others, Lübeck.


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Hamburg

[6] Denmark granted Hamburg city rights in 1220. At that time, the population of the town was about 1500.


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Hamburg

On 22 July 1227, a coalition of German princes expelled the Danish occupiers from Hamburg. At that time, the Battle of Bornhöved took place in Holstein near the small town of Bornhöved.


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Hamburg

The ruler of Hamburg was elevated to Count Adolf IV of the House of Schauenburgs.


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Hamburg

Economic life began to flourish again: the first trade guilds were established and foreign trading groups sought a foothold in the city.


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Hamburg

[6] Hamburg's defences were developed and by the coming of the middle of the 13th century, the entire area of the present Old Town was surrounded by the fortress.


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Hamburg

Several place names are commemorated of the ancient defensive structures, including Alstertor, Kurze Mühren, Lange Mühren, Millerntor and Steintor.


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Hamburg

The Ordeelbook, which came into force in 1270, strengthened Hamburg's independence.


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Hamburg

The concept of a “free city” (“freie stadt”) mentioned in the document was exceptional.


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Hamburg

[7] A serious setback for the thriving town was the devastating city fire on August 5, 1284.


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Hamburg

Hamburg's estimated 5000 residents lost their homes, but the city quickly got back on its feet and soon it was hit by a wave of migrants.


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Hamburg

[6] Hamburg's favourable location close to the North Sea and Baltic Sea trade routes quickly made the city a major port city.


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Hamburg

The 1241 union of Hamburg and Lübeck originated the Hanseatic League of trading towns.


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Hamburg

Hamburg's main export product was beer.


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Hamburg

At times, there were several hundred beer breweries in the city.


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Hamburg

Stable trade links increased Hamburg's prosperity.


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Hamburg

Hamburg's journey to the Hanseatic League was offset by the introduction of the Lübeck law (lübisches Recht) in 1188, the treaty to secure the road between Lübeck and Hamburg in 1241, trade privilegies in Flanders in 1252, England 1266, Sweden 1261, Norway 1283 and France 1294, and a common currency With Lübeck since 1255.


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Hamburg

Hamburg joined the Hanseatic League in 1321.


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Hamburg

Thanks to it, the city became a leading market town in the zone between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea.


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Hamburg

Being involved in the League of Powers ensured comparatively safe trade routes for Hamburg and contributed to the creation of new routes.


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Hamburg

In 1350, a plague epidemic killed six thousand hamburgers, or almost half of the city's population.


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Hamburg

In the second half of the 14th century, a number of nearby towns joined Hamburg.


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Hamburg

The grandeur status as a Hanseatic city necessitated the expansion of the harbour.


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Hamburg

Of particular strategic and political importance was the acquisition of Moorwender Island for Hamburg in 1395.


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Hamburg

At Moorwender, the Elbe split into two branches, the largest masses of water passing through the southern branch towards the rival city of Harburg.


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Hamburg

Moorwender's control allowed Hamburg to rationing the Elbe so that Harburg was caught in blockades.


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Hamburg

Gradually, the North Branch of the Elbe became more important and conditions for Hamburg's continued growth had been created.


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Hamburg

[8] Hamburg's first constitution came into force in 1410.


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Hamburg

After the death of the last representative of the Schauenburg family in 1459, the city fell under Danish control.


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Hamburg

New age Hamburg became a free emperor city in 1510. At that time, the population of the city was about 13000.


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Hamburg

In the 1520s, the city leadership embraced Lutheranism.


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Hamburg

As a result, Protestant refugees from the Netherlands and France came to Hamburg.


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Hamburg

In 1558, a stock exchange was established in the town.


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Hamburg

[8] In the 17th century, the Hanseatic League lost its importance and Hamburg was forced to balance between Denmark, Sweden, which had been elevated to a great power, and the German Empire.


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Hamburg

The city traded with colonial powers Spain and Portugal, and repeatedly had to pay for its freedom to its aggressive northern neighbors Denmark and Sweden.


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Hamburg

Unlike other German cities, Hamburg escaped the ravages and long downturn of the Thirty Years' War.


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Hamburg

Towards the end of the 17th century, a thriving agriculture developed in the south-east of present-day Hamburg in Marschlande and Vierlande.


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Hamburg

In 1712, a new constitution came into force, which was to end the infighting between the city rave and the inhabitants of the town.


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Hamburg

The Treaty of Gottorp in 1768 put an end to the perpetual conflict with Denmark.


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Hamburg

The following year, Denmark recognized Hamburg's status as a free kingdom city.


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Hamburg

[9] 19th century Hamburg was badly affected by Napoleon Bonaparte's last war expedition to Germany.


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Hamburg

It was 1806—1814 under French control.


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Hamburg

In 1819, the name Frei und Hansestadt was introduced.


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Hamburg

[9] The town grew strongly: in 1806 the population was about 130000 and in 1860, respectively, about 300,000.


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Hamburg

The growth of economic prosperity came to a halt with the Great Fire of May 1842: almost no houses built before the Great Fire have survived in the capital city of Hamburg.


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Hamburg

After the city fire, Hamburg continued to develop more intensively.


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Hamburg

Infrastructure was improved first and foremost at the initiative of private people.


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Hamburg

New political currents, such as the labour movement, also had an impact in Hamburg.


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Hamburg

The democracy movement and nationalism also raised their heads.


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Hamburg

In the 19th century, the city walls were demolished and streets surrounding the centre were built in their place.


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Hamburg

In this case, the city was given space to expand in every direction.


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Hamburg

[10] The fastest growing period in Hamburg's history was experienced in the second half of the 19th century.


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Hamburg

At that time, the city's population grew to over 700,000 inhabitants as the growth of trade shipping to the Atlantic made it the third largest port in Europe.


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Hamburg

In 1847, HAPAG (Die Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft, also Hamburg-Amerika Linie, Hamburg America Line) was founded, which soon grew to become the largest shipping company in the world.


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Hamburg

Beginning in the mid-19th century, millions of emigrants migrated from Europe to North America aboard HAPAG ships.


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Hamburg

[9] Hamburg's accession to the German Empire in 1871 was preceded by the German Union of 1815—1866 and the North German Union 1866—1871.


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Hamburg

In 1888 Hamburg was obliged to join the German Customs Union.


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Hamburg

In 1892, 8605 townspeople were killed by cholera.


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Hamburg

Hamburg had to be isolated from its environment from time to time to prevent the spread of the disease.


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Hamburg

The Dockers' Strike of 1896 expanded into an eleven-week general strike involving up to six hundred thousand people.


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Despite adversity, Hamburg's Neo-Renaissance Town Hall was completed in 1897.


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The palatial building measures 111 × 70 m and its tower rises to a height of 112 m.


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[11] 20th century Hamburg's population exceeded one million in 1910.


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The following year, the first tunnel under the Elbe was completed.


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Under the terms of the Versailles Peace Treaty following World War I (1914—1918), Hamburg was forced to surrender much of its merchant fleet, but soon made up for the losses with new ships.


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[12] The University of Hamburg was founded in the spring of 1919.


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The expressionist Kontorhausviertel (“Office House Quarter”) was built in the south-east of the Old Town in the 1920s.


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The most famous building on the block, the Chilehaus, a marker piece of red brick architecture, was elevated in 1922—1924.


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[13] After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, around 19400 Jews lived in Hamburg.


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Over the next four years, about half of them moved out or were deported.


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Most synagogues were razed in 1938.


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Of the Jews who remained in Hamburg, 8877 were murdered in National Socialist concentration camps during World War II (1939—1945).


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In 1945, there were 647 Jews left.


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[14] The city of Hamburg was expanded in 1937, when the neighbouring towns of Wandsbek, Harburg and Altona were annexed.


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In World War II, Hamburg was one of the key Allied aerial bombardment targets.


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The city was the target of a series of devastating air raids (Operation Gomorrah, 24 July — 2 August 1943).


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On the night of 28 July, the bombings led to a concerted firestorm in which some 42,000 civilians were killed.


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There are almost no surviving buildings from the pre-World War II period in the capital city of Hamburg.


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Only about a fifth of Hamburg's 564,000 dwellings survived unscathed from the war.


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The blackened tower of the ruins of the old St Nicholas Church on the edge of Hopfenmarkt Square has been left as a memorial to the ravages of war.


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Hamburg surrendered to British forces on 3 May 1945 and the city became part of the British occupation zone.


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The first post-war free election took place on 13 October 1946, Max Brauer of the Social Democrats was elected mayor.


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In 1949 Hamburg became one of the states of the newly formed Federal Republic of Germany.


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The following years were a time of intense reconstruction.


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Between 1946 and 1961, the population of the town increased by 31%.


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In addition to traditional livelihoods — port and shipbuilding — Hamburg's media industry developed.


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Three hundred people were killed in the flood disaster on 16 and 17 February 1962.


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Masses of water were sliding in from the North Sea with gale-force winds, breaching dams and covering about one-sixth of Hamburg's surface.


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Helmut Schmidt, who led the rescue work, received plenty of praise for his actions.


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As a result of the flood, the Elbe dams were increased.


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New, eight-foot dams prevented flooding in connection with storms in 1976 and 1990, among other things.


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[12] Among the new buildings following the mid-20th century, the twelve “Grindelhochhäuser” (Grindelhochhäuser) built in the Eimsbüttel district 1950—1956, the Hamburg State Opera (die Hamburgische Staatsoper) 1955, the Auditorium Maximum of the University of Hamburg (Audimax) and” The Philosophy Tower” (Philosophen-Turm, Phil-Turm) in the late 1950s and early 1960s and the Unilever-Haus 1964.


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The Heinrich-Hertz-Turm, 279-foot-tall television tower was completed in 1968.


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The Deutsche Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), a research centre focused on basic physics research, was founded in Hamburg in December 1959.


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In the 1970s, several shopping malls were built, including Hamburger Straße and Alstertal Einkaufszentrum.


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Germany's first convention center, Congress Center Hamburg opened in April 1973.


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The centre's landmark is the 120-metre Radisson Blu Hotel Hamburg tower block.


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The Alsterschwimmhalle (“Schwimmoper”), a swimming pool in the Hohenfelde district, also opened in 1973.


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New neighbourhoods included Osdorfer Born, Steilshoop and Mümmelmannsberg.


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The diagonal rope bridge over 3.6 kilometres long at Köhlbrandbrücke was completed in September 1974.


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A new tunnel began to be built below the Elbe in 1968.


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It was completed in January 1975.


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The tunnel conveys traffic for BAB 7.


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The Port of Hamburg became the most significant centre for container transport in Europe in the 1980s.


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The liberation of Eastern Europe from communist rule further fostered the development of the port.


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In addition, Hamburg strengthened its position as a centre for information and musical arts.


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[15] 2000s In 2001 there was a historic gig of political power relations in Hamburg when the CDU won a majority in the state parliament.


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Until then, the city had been governed mostly by the SPD.


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In February 2008, Germany's first state-level coalition between the CDU and the Greens was formed in Hamburg.


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[15] In 2011, the SPD again gained a majority in Parliament.


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Demographics Hamburg accounts for about two percent of Germany's population figure.


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With industrialisation in the second half of the 19th century, the town grew swiftly, from about 1600 in 1852 to over 700,000 in 1900.


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By 1905, the Prussian neighboring towns of Altona-Ottensen in the west and Wandsbek in the east had grown together with Hamburg.


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The combined population of the three cities was over one million at the time, administratively they remained separate until 1938.


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The major municipal union was decided in 1937 (Groß-Hamburg-Gesetz).


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In April 1938, a total of 48 municipalities and two municipalities were annexed to Hamburg, with a total population of 546396 (1933) and an area of 610.96 km².


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The wars have rocked Hamburg's population drastically.


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With the occupation of the city by French troops in the 1810s, the number of inhabitants dropped by less than half.


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During World War I, the population weighed considerably below 1 million, the border laundry had been crossed in 1912.


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Before the turn of the 1920s, the figure had risen again to over 1 million.


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At the dawn of World War II, Hamburg had a population of more than 1.7 million.


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During the war it fell to less than a million inhabitants, and immediately after the war crossed the million-population limit.


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The pre-war population count was reached in 1953.


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Hamburg's population reached its peak to date — 1.9 million — in 1964.


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Lower mortality birth rates and loss of migration to suburbs dropped the population to 1.6 million by 1986.


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Since then, the population has risen again: from 1986 to 2010 it grew by 13.7% (215181 people).


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In the table, the population is indicated according to the respective territorial division.


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¹ Population decline Politics The mayor of Hamburg has since 2011 been a member of the SPD party and former German Labour Minister Olaf Scholz.


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Until the end of August 2013, the Consulate General of Finland operated in the city.


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[16] Economy Hamburg's wealth is based on its port.


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It makes it one of the largest trading towns in Germany.


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In addition, there is significant industry in the city, where imported raw materials are processed.


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Machinery, textiles and rubber are produced in them.


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In addition, Hamburg has oil refineries, chemical industry, as well as shipyards.


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[17] Media One foundation stone of Hamburg's economy and culture is the media; the world's largest magazine Der Spiegel originates from Hamburg.


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In addition, there are several other media companies in the city, as well as numerous correspondence houses of foreign journals.


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Sports Football Hamburg is the hometown of football clubs Hamburger Sport-Verein (HSV) and FC St. Pauli.


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HSV won the 1983 European Cup (the predecessor of the current Champions League) by beating Juventus in Athens 1—0.


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Some of the best-known HSV players have been Uwe Seeler and Kevin Keegan.


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FC St. Pauli rose to finish the 06/07 season in the 2nd.


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Bundesliga and already qualified for the Bundesliga for season 10/11.


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Ice hockey hockey club Hamburg Freezers was founded in 2002.


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Its home arena serves as the multi-purpose Barclaycard Arena, built in the same year and located in the Bahrenfeld district.


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The club plays in Germany's top league level, the DEL league.


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In May 2016, the American company Anschutz Entertainment Group, which operates as the owner of Freezers, announced that it would not apply for a license for the starting season and would cease operations as financially unviable.


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Floorball Hamburg is also the largest floorball city in western Germany, thanks to the University of Hamburg among others.


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The local team is ETV Hamburg, from the Eimsbüttel district.


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ETV Hamburg plays in the main league of the country, namely the Bundesliga, the second largest sports club in Hamburg as a whole.


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The team has typically kept one or two Finnish players in its lineup per season.


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The club's women's team has achieved silver in the German Cup under Finnish coach Iiro Nahkamäki in 2012.


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Culture Music Hamburg's musical fame includes the beginning of The Beatles' international career in the early 1960s.


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The band visited the town several times in 1960—62.


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The venues for performing were in the St. Paul district on the famous Reeperbahn Street and its cross-street Große Freiheit.


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The band played at the following venues: Indra and Kaiserkeller (1960), Top-Ten (1961), and Star-Club (three fixtures during 1962).


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Appearances lasted several weeks at a time and the band played alternately with others several times in the evening.


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[18] In Finnish iskelmämusic, Hamburg is most famously featured in Irwin Goodman's song St. Pauli and the Reeperbahn (which was the winner of the Autumn Sävel Song Contest 1970).


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More recently, Hamburg is known, among other things, as a venue for the most popular German hip-hop performers.


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Hamburg is influenced by an extensive alternative and punk music scene that meets around the overrun Rote Flora theatre in the Sternschanze district.


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Some musicians of the Kraftwerk band are also from Hamburg.


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Metal bands from Hamburg include Helloween and Gamma Ray, representing the melodic trend.


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Museums Museums in Hamburg: Afghan Museum of Culture and Art Altona Museum, North German State Museum Archaeological and Harburg Museum of History Museum of Erotic Art Kunsthalle Art Museum Makasinin district Speicherstadt Museum Neuengamme concentration camp Museum German Customs Museum Working Museum Events As a port city Hamburg's history is largely centered around its port.


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Hamburg hosts the world's biggest harbour celebrations in the spring, namely the harbour's birthdays.


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The port is considered to have originated on 7 May 1189, when Hamburg became a free city and its inhabitants were granted customs rights to the River Elbe.


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Birthdays are celebrated every year in May for a few days when German and foreign sailboats and warships enter the port of Hamburg.


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[19] In 2008, the port's 819th birthday was celebrated with about 1.5 million visitors.


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Grigory Yefimovich Rasputin (, 22 January (J: 10 January) 1869 — 30 December (J: 17 December) 1916) [1] was a Russian mystic and prophet who is alleged to have been a miracle healer, a bloodstagger.


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Rasputin played a significant role in the late days of the Russian Empire at the court of Tsar Nicholas II, as he was allegedly capable of curing Alexei's haemophilia, or hemorrhagic disease, of heir to the throne.


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Eventually, Rasputin was brutally murdered.


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Rasputin has often been referred to as a monk, and the barking name “Mad Monk” was used about him.


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Contrary to what is sometimes thought, the name Rasputin did not signify “lecherous”, but was a surname common in Rasputin's home village.


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[2] There is a similar word распу́тник.


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[3] Early life Rasputin was born into a Siberian peasant family in the small village of Pokrovskoye on the banks of the Tura River.


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His birthday is indicated in some sources as 10 January 1869.


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However, all that is certain is that Rasputin was born between 1863—1873.


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As a child and young, he spent his time in a local convent.


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Known by 1893, Rasputin married Praskovia Fedorovna, a peasant girl from the neighbouring village of Dubrov, who was two years older than her husband.


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They went on to have five children, the eldest of whom — a boy — died at six months old.


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The other children were Dimitri (1895), Mikhail (1897), Matrjona (known as Maria Rasputinina) (ca.


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1898) and Varvara (1900).


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The Rasputin family still lives on through daughter Maria.


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His descendants live in France and the United States.


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At Nicholas II's Court Background In 1901, Rasputin left his homeland and took up wandering in Russia.


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In 1903, Rasputin arrived in St. Petersburg.


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His reputation as a prophet and miracle healer had already rushed there before him.


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In 1904, Rasputin heard stories that Emperor Nicholas II's newborn son and heir to the throne Alexei Nikolaevich Romanov was suffering from a hereditary hemorrhagic disease, haemophilia.


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This difficult, by that time usually fatal, rare and hereditary disease had passed to a son from Empress Aleksandra Fyodorovna - the former German Princess of Hessen- Darmstadt - who, as the granddaughter of Queen Victoria of Great Britain, was one of them of royal mothers who in the 19th and 20th centuries spread this disease to the ruler families of Europe.


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Around the time of Alexei's birth (the illness was revealed during the boy's first year of life), Empress Alexandra's immediate circle included two very peculiar women, the wives of her husband Tsar Nicholas's cousins: Grand Duchesses Miliza and Anastasia.


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Of these two, Miliza especially had an extraordinary interest in mysticism and the occult, which were fashion phenomena throughout that time.


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Introduced to the occult, Miliza became aware of rumours about Rasputin's supposed abilities and also brought this to the attention of Empress Alexandra, who was interested in mysticism, whom Miliza knew was also desperately seeking help for her sick son.


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Medicine, in those days, knew no way to help someone suffering from a disease such as hemorrhagic disease.


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Rasputin met the Emperor pair at the Knows of November 1 in 1905.


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According to reports, on that first meeting, Rasputin stopped Aleksei's bleeding attack.


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The incident gave rise to a son in both parents, especially the Empress, a strong sense of gratitude and trust for the extraordinary Siberian.


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Through his rumored healer abilities and Aleksei's disease, Rasputin gained great influence over the Tsar through this wife.


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His poor historical reputation was partly based on the rumors and gossip that the envious nobility began to spread about Rasputini and the Tsarist family.


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It was claimed that the Empress would be Rasputin's mistress.


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Rasputin has therefore gone down in history first and foremost as a shameless womanizer, a drunk and a twisted political gambler.


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Perhaps most strongly influenced by Rasputin's negative public image was his numerous relationships with women, which in that sexually-charged period provoked considerable aggravation.


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The collapse of Rasputin's reputation Rasputin was also alleged to have belonged to a highly despised and severely persecuted - defined as a heretic - a Russian faith sect known as the Glysts.


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The Glyst philosophy of faith was partly based on Christian doctrine, but for the most part it stemmed from vaguely pagan, pre-Christianity, Russian beliefs and rituals.


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The central idea of Glycism was the belief that the act of sin through subsequent penance ennobles the soul of man and brings him closer to God.


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It is considered highly possible that Rasputin in his youth, while touring his extensive wanderings in remote monasteries in Siberia, had ended up dealing with practitioners of this doctrine.


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It was also alleged that the Glyctians regarded their worship services as nocturnal orgies in secret locations.


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However, in his later life, Rasputin was seemingly not involved with Glycticism, but his own philosophy of faith was evidently strongly influenced by its concepts.


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As for legends of his unbridled drunkenness again, Rasputin was renowned in his native region for his frenzied lifestyles, which included drinking as well as female adventures.


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After experiencing, in his own words, a spiritual revival at the age of 28, Rasputin gave up alcohol — though by no means female relationships — for an extended period of time.


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He succumbed again in his final years, however, when his actions at court began to create severe pressures and become a danger to life for him himself.


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The role Rasputin played on the Russian political scene was extraordinary, to say the least.


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As noted above, he has often been harshly accused of court intrigues and overt interference in the country's governance, at the expense of the weak and voluptuous Tsar Nicholas.


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This, combined with his disrepute, has been considered one of the major reasons for the collapse of Imperial Russia in February/March 1917.


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Neither the court and ruling circles nor the ordinary Russian people had a clear idea of the true nature of Rasputin's influence over the empress.


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The main reason for Rasputin's influence was the illness of the heir to the throne Alexei Nikolaevich.


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Empress Aleksandra, who deeply loved her only son, became dependent on Rasputin, believing that he was the only person in the world capable of helping Alexes.


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To top it all off, the Tsarist family made careful efforts to hide their son's condition from all quarters.


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They believed that finding out that the future ruler of the country was incurably ill and that spirit was constantly on the hair would diminish the power of the ruler family.


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Their fear of losing power and their lives prompted the hiding of the true nature of things.


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Because of this, the role of Rasputin's healer could not be properly understood.


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Rasputin skillfully managed to hide from the Tsarist family the vices of his private life exaggerated among the people.


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The people, on the other hand, were unaware that the Tsarist family was not aware of the “true nature of the mad monk”, but believed that Rasputin was accepted by the Tsarist family as a rowdy, drunken womanizer, an immoral person.


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This fact again put a heavy strain on the Tsarist family's own reputation.


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Consequently, people could not understand Rasputin's great influence.


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Rasputin was claimed to be the most influential man in Russia of his own time, and somewhere even in the whole world.


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Edvard Radzinski's view The writer Edvard Radzinski discusses Rasputin's power widely in his book Rasputin (Finnish. Kari Klemelä, WSOY, 2000).


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His work brings the following conclusion: Rasputin was not a gambler purely in the sense where various gossip and legends about him in general have exaggerated his smear.


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He did not, from the start, exploit the position he had attained at court, and especially the trust of the Czaress, in order to act in politics “as if deputising for the tsar, dismissing and appointing ministers and senior officials out of sheer desire for power in accordance with his own preferences.”


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Grigory Rasputin was not the devious, manipulative grand vizier of Arabic tales.


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Rasputin's role was far more eccentric.


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According to Radzinski, the starting point of Rasputin's rule was the personality of Empress Alexandra.


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Orphaned by her mother at the age of six and growing up in the British court under the rearing reign of her grandmother Queen Victoria, the Empress was a strong-willed and, beneath her shy, reticent exterior, a woman of a very fierce and impassioned nature.


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Plus, he was very power-hungry.


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Aleksandra fought far more fiercely than her husband against the demands of narrowing the tsarist rule made in 1905 and never forgave then-Prime Minister Sergei Witte, who effectively forced Emperor Nicholas to sign e.g.


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the November manifesto on political reforms related to civil liberties.


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Empress Aleksandra, mainly for Alexei's sake, was willing to turn a blind eye to any accusations that were repeatedly made against Rasputin, and sympathy shown to Rasputin signified sympathy shown towards her himself—the Empress of Russia—.


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Aleksandra was never popular at court or anywhere else in Russia.


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He was German by descent, and in Russia of that time the Germans were not favourable.


Question: When did Grigory Rasputin die?

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She was characterized as a cold, cocky and arrogant woman, largely due to her shyness — especially when she was young, Aleksandra suffered from shyness, which seems surprisingly contradictory in relation to the rest of her personality.


Question: When did Grigory Rasputin die?

Grigory Rasputin

Rasputin's entry into the court quickly formed fatal to the Empress's own reputation.


Question: When did Grigory Rasputin die?

Grigory Rasputin

In her blind faith in Rasputini, the Empress began to accept only such people as favourable to Rasputini in her circle.


Question: When did Grigory Rasputin die?

Grigory Rasputin

The question, in a sense, was his own narcissism and desire for power.


Question: When did Grigory Rasputin die?

Grigory Rasputin

Roughly from 1912 onward — according to Edvard Radzinski [4], the Empress, under her own influence, began to enforce that persons sympathetic to Rasputin were taken into the highest posts.


Question: When did Grigory Rasputin die?

Grigory Rasputin

In later years, Rasputin, who sensed his own life was in danger at court (due to his reputation, which most in ruling circles felt was so damaging to the Tsarist regime that sending him away or outright killing him was the hope and goal of many) sought to have his back with the help of the empress, bringing to this as his own idea the idea of purging the entire civil service apparatus from the anti-Rasputin front.


Question: When did Grigory Rasputin die?

Grigory Rasputin

He began to quietly present to the tsar the persons who would be best suited to certain posts.


Question: When did Grigory Rasputin die?

Grigory Rasputin

Aleksandra, who herself also dreamed of a government obedient to Rasput—that is, herself—began to implement the proposals of her eccentric friend.


Question: When did Grigory Rasputin die?

Grigory Rasputin

During World War I, Rasputin and the Empress actually presided over the administration of the country after Aleksandra had been removed from the military by her husband's cousin, Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich.


Question: When did Grigory Rasputin die?

Grigory Rasputin

The reason for the disagreements was the Grand Duke's negative attitude towards Rasputin — and, by extension, the Empress.


Question: When did Grigory Rasputin die?

Grigory Rasputin

The place of commander-in-chief of the new army was taken for himself by the dutiful Emperor Nicholas.


Question: When did Grigory Rasputin die?

Grigory Rasputin

The exchange was in reality brainstormed by Empress Alexandra.


Question: When did Grigory Rasputin die?

Grigory Rasputin

Through it, he would, along with Rasputin, gain free rein in terms of ministers and the administration of the Empire.


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Grigory Rasputin

Partly due to the catastrophic confusion created by these actions and the pressures against Rasputin, the Empress and the House of Romanovs, the Russian Revolution was the consequence.


Question: When did Grigory Rasputin die?

Grigory Rasputin

Douglas Smith's view In November 2016, Douglas Smith's work “Rasputin” (about 800 pages) appeared.


Question: When did Grigory Rasputin die?

Grigory Rasputin

Smith has closely studied the archives, both in Russia and in other countries.


Question: When did Grigory Rasputin die?

Grigory Rasputin

Much of what has been told and written about Rasputin is rumour talk, gossip and lies.


Question: When did Grigory Rasputin die?

Grigory Rasputin

According to Smith, the perception of Rasputin is mainly based on the works of his enemies.


Question: When did Grigory Rasputin die?

Grigory Rasputin

His presumed murderer, Feliks Yusupov, wrote of Rasputin's death while in exile in Paris.


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Grigory Rasputin

He was strapped for cash, so he added sensational and supernatural material to his work so that the book would be well-traded.


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Grigory Rasputin

Friar Iliodor, suspected of orchestrating the first attempt on Rasputin's life, did the same in the United States.


Question: When did Grigory Rasputin die?

Grigory Rasputin

Douglas Smith reveals in his book the myths surrounding Rasputin.


Question: When did Grigory Rasputin die?

Grigory Rasputin

Rasputin is reported to have been a horse thief and petty criminal when he was young.


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Grigory Rasputin

Smith can't find confirmation of the case in police records.


Question: When did Grigory Rasputin die?

Grigory Rasputin

Rasputin was unable to attend school, but later went on a pilgrimage to Russia and stayed in a monastery where he learned to read and write.


Question: When did Grigory Rasputin die?

Grigory Rasputin

In Pokrovskoye he had a family and children, of whom only Maria lived old, the others died either small or in the early days of the Soviet Union.


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Grigory Rasputin

His wife was pretty patient about her husband's female adventures.


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Grigory Rasputin

Maria wrote a memoir stating that Rasputin was a good father.


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Grigory Rasputin

Rasputin was sincerely religious.


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Grigory Rasputin

He was likely acquainted with sects, but Smith writes that he did not belong to the Glyst sect.


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Grigory Rasputin

He was constantly visited by people asking for help and advice, and he helped them as best he could, even giving money.


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Grigory Rasputin

That's also what he got from his helpers and the court.


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Grigory Rasputin

The motive for his actions was neither glory nor money lust.


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Grigory Rasputin

Rasputin is alleged to have had many female relationships.


Question: When did Grigory Rasputin die?

Grigory Rasputin

He had a group of followers who travelled with him to Pokrovskoye, but his reputation was exaggerated.


Question: When did Grigory Rasputin die?

Grigory Rasputin

He is alleged to have organised orgies, but no evidence can be found for them either, instead the records show that some witnesses lied.