Word: eduskunta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the noses of a Soviet Control Commission, six political parties ran 580 candidates for 200 seats in the new Eduskunta (Parliament). U.S. correspondents in Helsinki reported that all parties and candidates had complete freedom of speech and action; Finnish voters enjoyed absolute privacy at the polls...
...result was less than a triumph for Finland's Communists. Their "Democratic Union" made tremendous strides but (on incomplete returns) got considerably less than a majority of the record 1,800,000 votes and 200 Eduskunta seats. A large proportion of the vote was still divided among the old-line, conservative parties...
...grey-red House of Representatives, Finland's Eduskunta (parliament) met five times in one day. In its fifth fevered session it jolted stubborn, Russophobic President Risto Ryti out of office, gave his job to Finland's one indubitably strong man, stubborn, Russophobic Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustav Mannerheim...
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