Word: fors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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It was now clear, Comrade Molotov said, where the "attitude of the present Finnish Government lies." The Government of Finland "doesn't wish to maintain normal relations with the Soviet Union. It continues in its hostile attitude. . . . From such a Government and from its thoughtless military clique we can...
Well aware that in the past few years their independence largely depended on the Germans protecting them from the Russians, and vice versa, when the Soviet Union began to attack the Finns last week they took it calmly. President Kyosti Kallio proclaimed a "state of siege." Foreign Minister Erkko observed...
Foreign Minister Erkko and Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, president of the National Defense Council. Premier Cajander's Government received a unanimous vote of confidence and then, to make way for possible negotiations with Russia, resigned. Appointed as the new Premier was 50-year-old President of...
The People's Government was formed at Terijoki, a little seaside village in Finland just across the Russian border which the Red Army had just captured. The chairman and Foreign Minister of the new "Government" was an old revolutionary named Otto Kuusinen, who had lived in Moscow for years...
"This Government hereby calls the entire Finnish people to a determined struggle for the overthrow of the tyranny of hangmen and war provocateurs. The reactionary, avid plutocracy which in 1918, aided by the troops of foreign imperialists, drowned democratic freedom of the Finnish toiling people in a sea of blood...