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The Karelian National Movement (Russian: Карельское национальное движение, romanized: Karelskoye natsional'noye dvizheniye; Finnish: Karjalan kansallinen liike; Karelian: Karjalan kanšallin liikeh), officially KKL-Stop the Occupation of Karelia [2] is an umbrella term for two organizations that split from each other in 2023.
The East Karelian Uprising (Finnish: itäkarjalaisten kansannousu, Karelian: päivännouzu karjalan kanzannouzu) and the Soviet–Finnish conflict 1921–1922 were an attempt by a group of East Karelian separatists supported by Finland to gain independence from the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. They were aided by a number of ...
Karjalan Liitto (in English: Karelian Association) is a Finnish organisation that promotes Karelian culture and history. It also functions as an interest group for Karelian evacuees . As of 2023, the organization consists of 14 districts in Finland , cooperating with other Karelian movements and organisations.
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]
No. Picture Name (Birth–Death) Took office Left office Political party First Secretary 1 Gennady Kupriyanov (1905–1979) 2 April 1940 25 January 1950
The Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic was established by the Soviet government on 31 March 1940 by merging the KASSR with the Finnish Democratic Republic.The latter was created in territory ceded by Finland in the Winter War by the Moscow Peace Treaty, namely the Karelian Isthmus and Ladoga Karelia, including the cities of Viipuri and Sortavala.
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Karelo-Finnish Komsomol artists playing kantele at the 2nd World Festival of Youth and Students in Budapest, 1949 In total seven congresses of the Karelo-Finnish Komsomol were held. It published the newspaper Leninin nuori seuraaja/Юные ленинцы ( Young Lenin's Follower ) and Nuori bolsevikki/Молодой большевик ( Young ...