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...lenient treatment. "Russia is mostly interested in getting the reparations from us," some say, "and therefore is letting us alone." Others proudly think that Russians fear to risk a long struggle with a people so passionately devoted to liberty. Another favorite explanation: "the Kremlin considers its present policy toward Finland good propaganda, especially for the Scandinavian countries." Many call their land "Russia's model protectorate...
Whatever the reason, Finland today has a degree of freedom unknown in other nations defeated by Russia. Finland's Reds and the Agrarian Party's "Greens" work together in Finland's left-of-center Government. Each of the three major parties -the Communist-dominated Democratic People's Union, the Social Democrats and the Agrarians-holds about one-quarter of the Diet's 200 seats...
...Communist Party members. Of these the dominant figure is Yrjö Leino, Minister of the Interior. His wife-pretty Hertta Kuusinen-is leader of the Democratic People's Union in the Diet, and daughter of the President of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic which incorporated southeastern Finland after...
Little Slips. One of the few signs of Russian interference in Finland today is a mild press censorship administered by Leino, who informs newspapers ("by little slips of paper," as one editor put it) what subjects are taboo. The principal forbidden subject is criticism of Russia...
Whether or not that time ever comes and Russia openly takes over the political reins in Finland, it is certain the Finnish economy is becoming more & more integrated with her big neighbor's to the east. Only one-third of Russia's reparations bill can be paid in wood products, although more than 80% of Finland's prewar exports came from her forests. A third of reparations must be paid in machines and tools, and most of the remainder in ships...