Word: finnishness
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...Capitals formerly occupied, now freed by the Red Army are: Kiev, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, liberated Nov. 6, 1943; Petrozavodsk, Karelo-Finnish S.S.R., June 19, 1944; Vilna, Lithuanian S.S.R., July 13; Minsk, Belorussian S.S.R., July 14; Kishinev, Moldavian S.S.R., Aug. 24; Tallinn, Estonian S.S.R., Sept. 22. There remained only Riga, Latvian S.S.R...
...have no right to be dissatisfied with the terms." The delegation had been in Moscow 14 days-eleven of them waiting around while the Big Three ironed out last-minute differences, three in actual negotiation. It looked as if Rumania had timed her switch expertly. A group of worried Finnish negotiators moved into the Rumanians' quarters in the Spasso Guest House as soon as they were vacated...
June 23, as the Russians smash the last Finnish front along the Svir River, they begin their drive directly westward, from Vitebsk toward Warsaw...
This week Moscow and Helsinki agreed to an armistice. On the Finnish front firing ceased. The Russians had insisted on the withdrawal, disarming and internment of all German troops in Finland by Sept. 15. If the Finns could not do the job alone, the Red Army would help...
...last the Finnish nation had learned tragically what Leon Trotsky meant when he said: "The Finnish General Staff should stop measuring the distance from Helsinki to Leningrad, because the distance from Leningrad to Helsinki will always be shorter...