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...dismiss his remark by saying he must have had a couple of acquavitas. Though camouflaged with the job of Commerce Minister, Väinö Tanner, as leader of Finland's largest party, is the strong man of Finland. He hates Bolshevism, but is afraid to accept Soviet Karelia lest Russia win the war and swallow Finland. He dislikes the Nazis, but is afraid to run out of the war lest they swallow Finland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FINLAND: Tangle and Tanner | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

...according to Hakkila, is an eastern boundary that would be easier to defend. By occupying Karelia (ceded to Russia in 1920) to the east, Finland's land boundary with Russia from the White Sea to the Gulf of Finland would be conveniently short, broken up by the big lakes Onega and Ladoga. The Karelians, who are racially kin to the Finns and speak a kind of Russianized Finnish, are well scattered throughout northeastern Russia. If the Finns should decide to claim, by racial right, all the territory in which they live, the New Finland would run as far east...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FINLAND: Uncomplicated War Aims | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

These terms were indeed stiffer than the pre-war demands. Before the war Russia asked only enough of Karelia to put Leningrad out of Finnish artillery range; she said nothing about the Laatokka region, which controls the biggest lake in Europe; and all she wanted was to lease Hanko. Said Foreign Minister Vaino Alfred Tanner, who made quite a name for himself as a phrasemaker as the week wore on: "There is no reason for the Finnish Government to occupy itself with mere talk. Let those talk who like to talk." Across the Baltic in Stockholm, Dr. Juho Paasikivi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: War and Peace | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

Around three sides of Karelia's crumbling capital Russian field artillery stood hub to hub, and under the torrent of shells they threw, the Red Army last week battered its way into Viipuri. Craftily the Finns fought their retreating battle, leaving small rear-guard detachments to hold up the advance while their main force fell back in good order. A ruined town makes the best of all fortifications, and as the Russians entered the outskirts of Viipuri, Finnish machine guns spat tellingly from the gaping windows of the all-but-demolished houses. The invaders had to occupy Viipuri block...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN THEATRE: Last Quarter | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

...frozen Gulf of Finland to outflank the city (TIME, March 4). Last week the Russians took this road. Another force drove past Viipuri to the northeast. And along what was left of three railroads the main body of the Red Army converged on its goal. The capital of Karelia, which was a Russian city from 1710 to 1918, was doomed to become Russian again. The Finns were holding it only to safeguard their withdrawal from the Karelian Isthmus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN THEATRE: Last Quarter | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

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