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5 unusual facts about Helsingin Sanomat


Communist Party of Finland

Soviet threats to withdraw support were the main reason why reformists didn't expel the hardline Stalinist minority (Taistoists, after Taisto Sinisalo; the word "taisto" also means "battle" or "fight"; the double connotation made this slur, originally launched by the largest Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, stick) from the party leadership or membership.

Dolly Buster

In Finland, the main newspaper of record in the land Helsingin Sanomat was forced to apologize when an illustration of an article about porn shops included a more than explicit picture of a video cover depicting her anally penetrated on its pages.

Erkko

Erkko is a Finnish family known for their ownership of the newspaper Helsingin Sanomat

Nokia E51

This phone was so complicated to use that it prompted a journalist from the Helsinki newspaper Helsingin Sanomat to write to Nokia executives who at that time were secretly very worried of the impact the newly introduced iPhone was having on their products.

Wolves of Turku

Eirik Granqvist wrote an article in the leading daily Helsingin Sanomat confirming that they had been positively identified as wolves after their remains had been examined in both the hunting museum and St Olof's school.


Aaltoes

After the event, Aaltoes was widely featured in the Finnish media, for instance Helsingin Sanomat and Image magazine both wrote lengthy feature stories of the society.

Armas Launis

Being anxious to maintain contact with his homeland, Launis was a regular contributor to various Finnish newspapers (Helsingin Sanomat, Uusi Suomi, Suomen Kuvalehti).

Market Square, Turku

They include, for instance, the Hansa and Forum shopping centres, the Wiklund department store, an Orthodox church, a private medical clinic, and several instances of media such as an office of Finland's major newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, locally most significant newspaper Turun Sanomat and YLE.


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