It’s a huge step to buy property in a foreign country. That doesn’t mean that those who used to live in those regions “weren’t all that interested” to live there. I’m sure it was a big disaster for most of them to have to leave their homes, their work, their future plans, their investments, their childhood memories etc etc. The fact that few of their countrymen came back 50 years later to buy property means nothing with respect to that.
That's nothing short of an insult. I'm the great grandson of a farmer that had to leave everything when the Soviets decided to take the Karelian Isthmus in the Winter War, yet now I should buy the land back while in reality I should receive 85 years' worth of compensation for getting my family's assets stolen if anything.
We are talking about different people.
100m2 apartment in the middle of Saint Petersburg was few thousands $. Dacha in Karelia was few times cheaper. Its doable as hobby for citizens of two wealthiest counties in Europe.
You could buy. Or could go in court. You dont, I guess.
My family lost big business after revolution, few of my relatives are dead because of WW2(blockade of Leningrad, when Finns and Germans participate together in one of most brutal war crimes ever) and Revolution. It would be fair if both our families get compensations for what happen from RF government. No one insulting you or your family, relax.
