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Karelo-Finnish SSR
Posted By : at 2007-04-28 09:50:35
Soviet Union had not renounced their claims. In the ensuing Continuation War, the territory was occupied by Finland more or less from July 1941 until September 1944, and in the following peace Finland was able to defend its independence. On July 16, 1956, the republic was incorporated into the Russian SFSR as the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Politics The chairman of the Karelo-Finnish Supreme Soviet (1940-1956) was Finnish communist Otto Kuusinen. In Finland, which had suffered hard from the civil war in the 1920s between white and red (socialist), Kuusinen came to be seen as a traitor also by the socialist side. In the republic there was also a separate Karelo-Finnish Communist Party led in the 1940s by G.N. Kupriyanov. See also: Karelia (disambiguation), Republics of the Soviet Union, Soviet
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