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Old 03-15-16, 01:41 AM   #1
Dowly
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Default Continuation War, day by day.

"The Continuation War refers to the hostilities between Finland and the Soviet Union during the Second World War, from 1941 to 1944."
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Lots of things to cover during the Interim Peace time, so let's get to it.

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March 1940

14/03

Blackout regulations end.

All available trains and trucks are to be used to help evacuate people from the lost territories.

President Kallio gives radio speech praising Mannerheim.

15/03

Moscow Peace Treaty is ratified by the Finnish parliament.

Last sections of Viipuri are evacuated.

20/03

USSR news agency TASS informs that any possible defense alliance between the nordic countries would be seen as anti-Soviet Union and against the Moscow Peace Treaty.

22/03

Russian troops who had been encircled in Kuhmo at the end of the war retreat back to USSR side of the border.

At midnight, control of Hanko peninsula is turned over to the Russians.

23/03

Planning meeting for the new defensive line, the so called "Salpa-line" is held in Inkilä. Mannerheim and five generals take part in the planning.

24/03

Finns start to build fortified lines on the Finnish side of Hanko peninsula.

26/03

Finnish army completes the withdrawal to the new border as Värtsilä and Maaselkä are emptied.

27/03

Mannerheim continues in his role as the Commander-in-Chief of the Finnish Army.

29/03

Russian foreign minister Molotov warns the nordic countries that USSR would not allow a nordic defense alliance to be formed.

30/03

National aid collection for Finland in Sweden crosses 33 million krona.

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