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Word: karelo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Aviv, whom the Russians arrested in 1940 for "breaking passport regulations" while visiting his native Poland presented the most comprehensive account of conditions in Soviet slave labor camps. He spent five years, successively, at the 48th Square, 2nd Onega division of BBK (Belomor Baltic Canal) Camp in the Karelo-Finnish Republic; the Kruglitsa camp site at Kargopol in the Archangel district; the transit camp site in Kotlas. Reported Margolin: "The entire BBK Camp which spreads from . . . Lake Oneg to the White Sea, embraced in my time several hundred camp sites . . . [All told], Camp BBK held about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Bill of Particulars | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...Parliament, right and center parties raised the same question that had precipitated the Czech Communist coup, asked the government if it was true that Finland's Communist-bossed police had recently been loaded with Communists; 2) a Communist rally was told by Hertta Kuusinen, fortyish daughter of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic's President Otto Kuusinen, that "Finland must follow the same road as Czechoslovakia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Stars & Stripes | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...delegation was Communist Minister of Interior Yrjö Leino. His wife, lively 44-year-old Hertta Kuusinen (sometimes called Finland's Ana Pauker), is the daughter of Russian stooge Otto Kuusinen, President of the Karelo-Finnish Republic which Russia grabbed from Finland in World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FINLAND: Compulsory Labor | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

Minister of the Interior Vrjö Leino, boss of the "Valpo" or political police, countered with orders for tighter border control. But Finland's border remained wide open to an influx of Finnish Communist agents from Otto Kuusinen's nearby Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic. Election of delegates to the Finnish Diet was scheduled for July. At present, in a bloc with the Socialist Union party, Communists control 51 of its 200 seats. But in recent local elections Communist candidates have been losing ground. If the Communists intended to cement control, the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: For a Radical Improvement | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

Only three Cabinet ministers are Communist Party members. Of these the dominant figure is Yrjö Leino, Minister of the Interior. His wife-pretty Hertta Kuusinen-is leader of the Democratic People's Union in the Diet, and daughter of the President of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic which incorporated southeastern Finland after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FINLAND: On Tiptoe | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

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