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8 unusual facts about Continuation War


Ajonpää class minesweeper

Ajonpää and Kallanpää were bought from Denmark during the Continuation War and were intended for clearing influence mines.

Eri-Aaroni

After the Continuation War ended in 1944, parts of Kirkkonummi were rented by the Soviet Union to host a military base, and Eri-Aaroni was evacuated again.

FinnWars

Gameplay focuses on winter warfare maps using Finnish and Russian weapons and equipment, in re-creations of historical battles of Winter War and Continuation War that Finland was involved in.

Marskin ryyppy

The drink was originally created by Mannerheim's adjutant Ragnar Grönvall after the Marshal asked him to do something about the horrible flavour of the low quality vodka available during wartime.

Marutei Tsurunen

Near the end of Continuation War, Tsurunen (then four years old) and his family were among the few survivors of a Soviet partisan attack on the village.

Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad

These mods include Iron Europe: 1914-1916, a mod about World War I, In Country: Vietnam, a mod about the Vietnam War, and Karelian Front, a mod about the Continuation War.

Sensuela

Sensuela is a story of Laila, a girl from Lapland, and a German soldier Hans who fall in love during Continuation War.

Uusi Runo

The title meaning "new poem" - was written during the Continuation War at night following Helaakoski's absence from writing in the 1930s.


Academic Karelia Society

The AKS controlled the student union of the University of Helsinki from the mid-1920s right up to 1944, when the Society was disbanded in the aftermath of the Continuation War that to a great extent had been planned and fought in accordance with the AKS agenda.

Battle of Nietjärvi

The place is located in the Ladoga Karelia district, north of Lake Ladoga (in the southwestern corner of the Aunus Karelia frontier), in an area which belonged to Finland up to the end of the Continuation War (1944).

Hans Feige

When the German offensive was launched on 22 June 1941, his unit was together with the Finnish III Corps tasked to recapture Salla and cut Murmansk off from the rest of Russia by advancing eastwards during Operation Arctic Fox.

Hans Metzger

In the 1980s Metzger published his two-part memories about his activities in Finland during the Winter War and the Continuation War.

Postage stamps and postal history of Karelia

Karelia has appeared in philately several times; first as a breakaway republic from Soviet Russia in 1922, later when Eastern Karelia was occupied by Finland during the Continuation War of 1941 to 1944, and in the post-Soviet period when provisional stamps and cinderellas were issued.

Ruskeala

Before the Winter War and Continuation War, it was the seat of Ruskeala Municipality of the Viipuri Province in Finland.

Usadishche, Vyborgsky District, Leningrad Oblast

Until the Winter War and Continuation War, it had been part of the Vahviala municipality of the Viipuri Province of Finland, partially lost to the Soviet Union in 1944.


see also

Vyborg–Joensuu railroad

The bombing of the Elisenvaara station of the Karelian railroad on 20 June 1944, during the final stages of the Continuation War, was the most fatal bombing in Finnish history; over a hundred civilians were killed when bombs hit a train of Karelian evacuees