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The Karelian United Government [a] was a short-lived state that existed from 1920 to 1923, as a merger of the Republic of Uhtua and the Olonets Government of Southern Karelia. [ 1 ] History
The regions were reclaimed by the Red Army later the same year, the Tartu peace was signed and the Karelian United Government was dissolved. As many other ethnically non-Russian states within RSFSR , the Karelia would receive autonomy within RSFSR, establishing the Karelian Labour Commune on 8 June 1920, which enjoyed a large de-facto autonomy ...
The Karelian Group "Nord" [10] (Karelian: Karjalan ryhmä), formerly known as the Karelian National Battalion (Ukrainian: Карельський національний батальйон, romanized: Karelskyi natsionalnyi batalion; Karelian: Karjalan Kansallini Pataljona) also known as Nord, [10] is a formation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, functioning as a component of the Russian ...
Discussions about Karelia becoming its own state emerged in 1906, when on 3 August, the Union of White Karelians [] was created in Tampere, Grand Duchy of Finland. [1] In 1911, the Union was banned, but it was later revived in 1922 as the Academic Karelia Society, to take a direct part in the creation of the Republic of Uhtua.
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 ...
On 27 June 1919 the Government went into exile in Finland, following the Soviet Russian capture of Vitele . [3] In October 1920 the Olonets government merged with the Republic of Uhtua to form the Karelian United Government. [4] The Olonets Government was governed by the Olonets Committee, which was located in Helsinki.
The Karelian Labor Commune [a] was an autonomous region established in 1920 following the successes of the Red Army's incursion into the Republic of Uhtua, to undermine and discredit the separatist movements and to make Finland give up on attempting to liberate East Karelia shortly before the beginning of negotiations for the Treaty of Tartu [1] and during the Heimosodat. [2]
Forest Guerrillas (Finnish: Metsäsissit) were an East Karelian resistance movement that was created officially on 14 October 1921. [1] There were around 3,000 Forest Guerillas in total during the East Karelian Uprising as a Karelian and Finnish resistance movement against Bolshevik Russia, aiming for an East Karelian state with independence from Russia, and in some occasions unification or ...