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...student at the University of Helsinki: "The peace movement in this country has tended to be monopolized by the far left, seen as a thing of Communist propaganda. They talk about peace all the time, and no one believes them." When the country's leading pacifist, Ulla Gyllenberg, tried to encourage Finns to place lighted candles in their windows as a pacifist gesture, the project fizzled. Explained a Finnish journalist: "We only put candles in our windows for one thing, to demonstrate our independence from Russia on Independence Day" (Dec. 6; for a century ending in 1917 Finland...
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