well anna has said her grandparents from her mom side are from russia and i don't have any reason not to believe it as there was a lot of forced migration during the soviet times. so it would be true if she says her mother is from estonia but she is russian. however, don't forget the another 50% of her. we all know that his father is from finland, right. she also have said: "as a child i both lived in finland & spoke fluent finnish, but now i don't speak any finnish! yes, i've been to finland many times". i can believe that also. especially since she has this crazy stiffness while talking, such a finnish thing lmao. but what's interesting for me, is the way how anna and her mom became swedes.
in the ussr you couldn't just pack your bags and go to the west. lmao, no. however, during the 1980s when the ussr became more liberal, women used the simple way to escape by getting married to a foreigner (strong 90 day fiance vibes). as tallin and helsinki are very close to each other, of course finns used to visit very exotic soviet tallin. one random fact too: people in the northern estonia could catch the tv signals from finland, so they often watched the finnish tv and learned finnish through it. for young girls who wanted to escape the ussr, it gave definitely a huge advantage if they could tell some fat ugly juha matti or kalle pekka whom they met in a hotel lobby (
) that minä rakastan sinua. anna's mom most probably also seduced one of these jaakko jalmari-s and got a baby. but now there's lots of room for imagination. did anna's mom got married to anna's father? did she find another guy to "level up"? maybe it was a finnish swede, hmmm. did she move to finland before or after soviet collapse? also i'm curious what was her mom's real name? russians have always put very traditional names, especially in the 1960s or when her mom was born, so there is no chance she was actually born with her current first name. but ekat
erina, tatiana or whoever she is, still has some old russian ladies from tallin as her friends on fb so i guess she didn't go as hard as anna when creating a new identity.
also it is just my opinion, but she doesn't really have much common with russians other than the language that she knows on a basic level of communication so i really don't get this ooooooh she is a russian!!!! witchhunt kind of thing. i actually think she would actually be more successful if she would have used runet for info. but she didn't. you can really find everything there – good beauty tips (which don't include going crazy with botox), fitness tips, fashion advice, and even how to be an escort in london. still she doesn't know anything about russians. i bet her mom is the only russian she actually knows in real life. i remember one girl in jsb group shared a blog with her which was about eastern european women and her reaction was basically oh wow so much new information, tusen tack.