Word: petsamo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Damn the Communists. Kirkenes' Finnish neighbors over the line were carefully moved back behind a Soviet "security belt." Some six divisions of the Red army moved up to protect the new border. Norwegians were forbidden to go to Petsamo (which the Russians named Pechenga), the Finnish nickel center across the Pasvik River. Meanwhile, Hoelvold established himself as local Red leader. He built up an eight-man Communist bloc in Kirkenes' 28-man town council. He began to publish a Mimeographed party newspaper. With his Russian friends beaming from the other side of the Pasvik, he blasted Norway...
...south of Rovaniemi, on the edge of the Arctic Circle, is the little community of Varejoki. The people of Varejoki, struggling desperately to keep alive and to create a new life for themselves, are a strange assortment. There are 50 Finnish farmers-mostly refugees from the northern district of Petsamo, now Russian territory-who live with their 300 children in lean-tos and shacks. There are several score prisoners-mostly short-term smugglers and black marketeers-who live in improvised barracks almost without guards. And there are 35 welcome visitors sent by the American Friends Service Committee from half...
Trieste internationalized; Venezia Giulia and small Adriatic islands to Yugoslavia; Briga-Tenda and other border areas to France; Dodecanese Islands to Greece; all African colonies, which Big Four will dispose of within one year. Petsamo province and southern Karelia to Russia, which also gets a lease on the naval base at Porkkala-Udd, commanding the Gulf of Finland...
Boundaries. Again the man in possession called the tune. From Finland, Russia is to get the warm water port of Petsamo and a lease on the Baltic naval base at Porkala; from Rumania, 79,300 square miles of Bessarabia. Other shifts in the Balkans give Transylvania back to Rumania, southern Dobruja to Bulgaria. The British and French gain at the expense of Italy: the Dodecanese Islands go to British-controlled Greece; the communes of Briga and Tenda and other bits of the Italian Alps go to France. But Italy is allowed to keep the South Tyrol over Austrian protest. Trieste...
Through the multicolored spruce and birch forests the fight went on. Soon winter would freeze the hundreds of lakes and rivers, blanket the forests with snow. In the north the Russians landed six miles from Petsamo, at the northern terminus of the Arctic highway, marched in to capture the port three days later. When the Russians neutralized Kirkenes and the Finns reached Rovaniemi, organized German resistance could no longer continue. Then Finland would have peace...