Word: finland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Finland would soon be virtually isolated from her ally...
...victory also had a heavy political tinge. It foreshadowed the reabsorption of the three Baltic states within Russia, after a 22-year interlude of independence. It presaged a near test of Russia's amended constitution (see p. 34). It strengthened the hand of the peace advocates in Finland. Above all, it put a new strain on Germany's morale-and that was a military gain as well...
Correspondents in Stockholm last week were told-and believed-that German troops were about to evacuate Finland and northern Norway. The prospect confronted Swedes with delicate problems...
...Finland was another matter. If the Germans go home through Sweden, the laws of neutrality demand that the Swedes intern them. The Swedes would also have to feed them. There are an estimated 100,000 Germans in Finland (and northern Norway), and Sweden has no food to spare...
...independent Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania into Soviet Republics. There was a solemn plebiscite. Next, Russia took Bessarabia back from Rumania (she had lost it in World War I) and renamed it the Moldavian Republic. Finally the Russian part of the Karelian Isthmus, plus a slice of Finland conquered in 1940, was set up as the Karelo-Finnish Republic, and the pattern of border buffer republics was complete. The land of the Great Russians, the Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic, touches foreign territory only in the Far East, where the Amur River divides the R.S.F.S.R. from Japanese-held...