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The Karelian Front Russian: Карельский фронт) was a front (a formation of Army Group size) of the Soviet Union's Red Army during World War II, and operated in Karelia. Wartime [ edit ]
Finnish soldiers in Olonets. The Finnish invasion of East Karelia was a military campaign in 1941. It was part of the Continuation War.Finnish troops occupied East Karelia and held it until 1944.
The Karelian Army fought north of Lake Ladoga. On July 10 the Army started its offensive against East Karelia , north of Lake Ladoga . The aim was to reclaim the areas lost to the Soviet Union in the Winter War , but also to advance deeper into Soviet territory to gain a more easily defensible front .
The Vyborg–Petrozavodsk offensive or Karelian offensive [Notes 3] was a strategic operation by the Soviet Leningrad and Karelian Fronts against Finland on the Karelian Isthmus and East Karelia fronts of the Continuation War, on the Eastern Front of World War II. The Soviet forces captured East Karelia and Vyborg/Viipuri. After that, however ...
Finnish propaganda directed at the Karelian population focused on pan-Finnicism, presented the occupiers as liberators, and also tried to encourage antagonism between the Karelians and Russians. [18] The main propaganda tools of the military administration were the newspaper Vapaa Karjala ("Free Karelia") and Aunus Radio. [19]
The pivotal moment in the uprising was the council meeting of Karelian Forest Guerrillas in mid-October 1921. It voted in favor of secession from Soviet Russia. The key leadership was formed by military leaders Jalmari Takkinen, Finnish-born, aka. Ilmarinen, and Ossippa Borissainen. Particularly Vaseli Levonen aka.
The Finnish invasion of Ladoga Karelia was a military campaign carried out by Finland in 1941. It was part of what is commonly referred to as the Continuation War.Early in the war, Finnish forces captured the Ladoga Karelia.
Besides the Soviet partisans, airborne reconnaissance troops and spies (Russian: desántnik) of the Soviet military also operated inside the Finnish borders. [6] The Finnish Army organized a special unit called Sau for anti-partisan activities. A partisan brigade was destroyed in Northern Karelia by the Finnish Army in mid-1942. [7]