Children of War and Peace premiered at the IFF Rotterdam in 2024. It is an exceptional compilation film that deals with propaganda. Finland first became an independent state when it broke away from the Russian Empire when it was falling apart in 1917. Having witnessed the horrors of the WW I and aware of the potential threats of the future, the government initiated a harsh policy for the rising generation. All children were taught discipline, honesty, and patriotism. No exceptions. The film includes archive footage, photographs, radio programs, books, magazines, and a lot of propaganda material, as well as children and young people’s testimonies and diary entries. It is a bleak but visually fascinating study of the policies that small states bordering Russia were forced to adopt.