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First of May in Finland

The first of May, vappu in Finnish, is nowadays known as the international workers’ day, but long before that it was celebrated in many European cultures in a form or another. In Finland the first of May was known as hela or toukojuhla, and its celebration included burning bonfires, dancing, and sima, a traditional Finnish vappu beverage.

Sima and tippaleipä. Tippaleipä, funnel cake, is a traditional sweet vappu pastry. (Commons)

If you walk on the streets of Helsinki at the first of May, you might notice something peculiar: everyone seems to be wearing a white cap with a black peak. It is the Finnish student cap worn by Finnish high school (lukio) graduates, since vappu is also the day of students. The cap is important for Finns: as a child I was even told that if I wore someone else’s cap, I would never get a cap of my own.

Finns literally keep their caps until they die. (Commons)

Vappu is also a holiday of the Finnish labor. The leftist movement was at its strongest in the early 70s, when the Taistoists, taistolaiset, were popular. The leftist march, vappumarssi, is still arranged every year.

Finnish Communists at Tokoinranta, Helsinki, 2015.

The Taistoist movement set off a wave of leftist music in Finland, and the most popular ones of the songs composed in the 70s are still sung today. You don’t have to be a leftist to listen to them - some former members of the Coalition Party Youth League (the youth league of a Finnish right-wing party) admit singing them while drunk because their own songs weren’t nearly as good.

Laulu siirtotyöläisestä, A Song about a migrant worker, 1970. Composed by Kaj Chydenius, lyrics by Aulikki Oksanen, and sung by Kristiina Halkola.

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