Word: urho
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...started on a conducted search for living quarters. Their chief, Pavel Orlov, Russia's Minister to Finland after the Russian invasion of 1939, decided that the former Estonian Legation was an anachronism, gave orders to move in. Then everybody headed for a state dinner, tendered by new Premier Urho Jonas Castren. Eighty more Commission members-all Russians-were due the next day. Impassively the Finns looked...