Word: karelo-finnish
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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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...
describe their Government as a crocodile trying to look like a nice old man. "The vipers who are crawling on their bellies before Hitler, saying they wish to defend Finland as far east as Petrozavodsk [capital of the Soviet Karelo-Finnish Republic] may find the Red Army defending the Soviet Union as far west as Helsinki," Moscow added ominously. As the Red Army drove into Estonia, 60 miles away across the Gulf of Finland, Moscow's audible, pointed recollections of Finland's part in the bombardment and siege of Leningrad, in the epic sufferings of Leningrad...
...Soviet Republics. There was a solemn plebiscite. Next, Russia took Bessarabia back from Rumania (she had lost it in World War I) and renamed it the Moldavian Republic. Finally the Russian part of the Karelian Isthmus, plus a slice of Finland conquered in 1940, was set up as the Karelo-Finnish Republic, and the pattern of border buffer republics was complete. The land of the Great Russians, the Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic, touches foreign territory only in the Far East, where the Amur River divides the R.S.F.S.R. from Japanese-held Manchuria. Between Russia proper and China lies the Mongolian...