Patriot's Diary is Janus Putkonen's debut work, which was first published as a special edition in Finnish in Russia, in November 2022, and as an advance e-book for MV-lehti subscribers in November 2023. The first edition in Finnish was completed in late 2025 and was first printed as a book in Finland in March 2026. Note: Illegal copies of this book have been sold in Finland, the content of which is unknown to the author. Patriot's Diary (2026), published by Fenno Kustannus in Finland, has been finalized and approved by the author.
Book Information:
Janus Putkonen's Autobiography: Patriot's Diary
Written by: Janus Putkonen
Place and time of writing the original: Lugansk, 2022/2026
Annotation:
Is Janus Putkonen an alleged Putin's troll, a populist and reckless rabble-rouser, an official in charge of separatist propaganda and censorship in eastern Ukraine, a mercenary recruiter, a conspiracy theorist, a gypsy boy – a tramp who is doomed to roam, or is he?.. Somebody absolutely different?
A chappie of the famous artist family tells himself, for the first time, who he really is, where he came from, and what has happened to him during his life. The Patriot's Diary is the author's first book and an autobiographical memoir of the first part of his life. In this book, Janus Putkonen tells about the cycles of his life journey, without ignoring painful phases explaining why he has acted in his way, what he really thinks, what he believes and why.
Book Chapters and Sub-Chapters:
Introduction
1. Years of Finland’s Freedom
- No Dark Rooms
- From Vuosaari to Loviisa
- “They Call Me a Gypsy”
2. From Village to Zurich
- From Gig on Stage to Street Gang
- From School to Big World
- Rebellion
- Ordinary Life of a Gig Musician
- Lada 1200
- Book Bonfires
3. Feed Packs and Submachine Gun
- Truckers' World
- "When those Swedes come"
- At the Crossroads
- Grace of the Court
4. Hitting the Bottom
- Gypsy Boy at Parola's Brigade
- Someone Has to Leave
- Finland's Biggest Insurance Fraud
- Model of the Year
- “Naks-Naks” Men
- Car Help at 18 y.o.
- Model Boy's Perfect Performance
- From Large Farm to Noble Mansion
- From Regional Defence to Reserve Police
- Cursed Island
5. Gypsy Camp Moves to Heaven
- Theatre Performance 2000
- First Victim of Winter War
- Farewell to Stage
6. Towards Exile
- Everything Turns Against Me
- From Student to Headmaster
- To beat the odds
7. Awakening
- Welcome to EU-Finland!
- Treblinka Extermination Camp
- Millennium
- Beast of War
- New Era – Verkkomedia
- Ultimatum
8. How to Overthrow Prime Minister
- Don Muang Airport
- Assault
- Anatomy of Uprising
9. Clear Conscience
- Eyewitness on Maidan
- West's Strategic Plan
- First Trip to Donbass
- International Press Centre in Donetsk
10. Lessons From Front Lines of Information War
- New Working Lines
- Heavy Responsibility and Long Days
- Accusations and Lies
- Desire to Kill
- Becoming Government Official
11. Most Expensive Bottle of Wine
- What Now?
- Ilja and MV-lehti
- Genocide
- Finland's Fate
12. Patriots Do Not Fight Out of Anger
Excerpt From the Book (Chapter 4, Sub-Chapter "Naks-Naks" Men):
In the spring of 1997, my mother said to me, “Listen, Janus, you should write and direct a play.” I asked her, “What kind of play should I write?” The answer was: “A full-length play for an indoor stage.” A few months earlier, my mother and the theatre's secretary had signed a lease agreement with the city of Porvoo for the theatre premises at the Art Factory. The space was a large old industrial hall that had been used as a winter storage for boats. There was nothing there: no auditorium, no stage – just a big, dirty, empty industrial hall. My mother had decided that a theatre would be built there and she wanted to commission the script and direction of the first play from me.
It was my start in the world of theatre from the ground up. I had never written a script before, let alone directed anything, and the future theatre hall was just an empty industrial premise. It was a very suitable starting point for me, so I set to work from square one. At first, the stage and auditorium were built with volunteer labour. We received old, unused theatre lighting fixtures as a donation from the community college. There was no lighting control table. As a sponsor, the Porvoo-based electrical equipment factory Ensto donated several boxes of ordinary rotary home lighting dimmers to us. Then we screwed them to an ordinary tabletop, pulled wires here and there, and somehow got the lighting control to work.
The lighting crew was nicknamed the “naks-naks” because every time a light was turned off or on again, the Ensto light switch would click. When the theatre was completely silent at the beginning of the plays, the only sound that could be heard was the “naks-naks” coming from the lighting crew's table, which they tried to muffle with amusing gestures and by bending over the table.
I wrote a play called The Eleventh Moment. It was a parapsychological adventure between life and death, a story I had conceived myself, which my mother guided me in writing into a play. My first script was bleeding red ink: the text was not supposed to be that explanatory. I directed the play and also wrote a role for myself. We managed to gather a really good and talented group of actors and other necessary theatre personnel. The play was, to put it bluntly, a success, and many of the delighted spectators went to see it a couple of times. At the last performance, there was no empty seat left and extra benches had to be brought in. What I remember from the play is that there was a devil, who was a lewd female character, and a god, whose character was like Marshal Mannerheim. Good and evil were fighting for human souls. The play was also highly praised in magazine reviews, and the Porvoo Theatre, which started out as the Porvoo New Drama Theatre, got its start from our work.
(c) Janus Putkonen
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