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Finland and rejected
The Soviets demanded territories on the Karelian Isthmus, the islands of the Gulf of Finland and a military base near the Finnish capital Helsinki, which Finland rejected.
Gustav IV naturally rejected all the proposals of Alexander to close the Baltic against the English ; but took no measures to defend Finland against Russia, though, during the autumn of 1807, it was notorious ( obvious ) that the tsar was preparing to attack the grand duchy.
Finland rejected these demands and intensified its pleas to Sweden, France and the United Kingdom for military support by regular troops.
The Soviet Union wanted to annex Finland and offered a union agreement, but Finland rejected it, which caused Soviet Union to attack against Finland on November 30.
Finland rejected the demands and on November 30, the Soviet Union invaded Finland, thus triggering the Winter War.
With his comments Brownlee rejected New Zealand Labour Party's plans to model the economy on Finland, and added that Finland " has worse unemployment than us, has less growth than us, can hardly feed the people who live there, has a terrible homicide rate, hardly educates its people, and has no respect for women.
In the " Statsrådsdiktamen " on 19 February 1940, Sweden's king Gustaf V publicly rejected pleas from Finland's government for military intervention in the Winter War to help defend Finland against the Soviet invasion.
Soon afterwards, the nobility of Finland, led by the Sigismund-appointed Governor, Klaus Fleming, rejected these decisions.
The Central Committee of the KTP rejected after voting ( 18 – 9 ) a proposed membership in a new ( electoral ) party, Forces for Change in Finland ( MVS ), in which clearly right-wing elements were also going to participate.
None of the Scandinavian countries ( except Finland ) have joined the Euro, membership being rejected by referendum in both Denmark and Sweden.
The approach from Scunthorpe was rejected by Paatelainen, but soon afterwards he accepted an offer from Finland.

Finland and territorial
Treaties signed in 1947 and 1948 with the Soviet Union included obligations and restraints on Finland, as well as territorial concessions.
In addition to stipulations of non-aggression, the treaty included a secret protocol dividing Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Finland into German and Soviet spheres of influence, anticipating potential " territorial and political rearrangements " of these countries.
Russia's Bolshevik ( Communist ) government renounced all territorial claims on Finland ( which it had already acknowledged ), the future Baltic states ( Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania ), Belarus, and Ukraine.
It thus overturned almost all the territorial losses incurred at Brest-Litovsk, with the exception of Finland which did lose territories in the Winter War and Continuation War.
The parties gave each other rights, " in the event of a territorial and political rearrangement ," to " spheres of influence " ( western Poland and Lithuania for Germany, and eastern Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Bessarabia for the USSR ).
* Dissolution of the German colonial empire, Austria-Hungary and the Russian Empire, reorganization of European states ' territorial boundaries, and the creation of several new European states and territorial entities: Austria, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Finland, Free City of Danzig, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Saar, briefly the Ukraine, and Yugoslavia.
* 31, 560 km < sup > 2 </ sup > – territorial water of Finland
After unsuccessfully attempting to force territorial and other concessions on the Finns, the Soviet Union invaded Finland in November 1939 during the Winter War, intending to establish a communist puppet government in Finland.
With Poland being divided between two powers, the Soviet Union put forth its territorial demands to Finland for a minor part of the Karelian Isthmus, a naval base at Hanko ( Hangö ) peninsula and some islands in the Gulf of Finland.
In the Gulf of Finland, the outer limit of the territorial sea shall at no place be closer to the midline than 3 nautical miles, according to the Act amending the Act on the Limits of the Territorial Waters of Finland ( 981 / 95 ).
There is also expectation of eventual territorial expansion to the Baltic countries, Finland and Poland, with the approval of either the Western powers or Germany.
* Controlling the land borders and territorial waters of Finland.
In 1582, king John III of Sweden added Grand Prince of Finland to the subsidiary titles of the Swedish kings, however without any territorial or civic implications, Finland already being a part of the Swedish realm.
In the event of a territorial and political rearrangement in the areas belonging to the Baltic States ( Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania ), the northern boundary of Lithuania shall represent the boundary of the spheres of influence of Germany and the U. S. S. R.
It must have been clear to Molotov and Stalin in August 1939, that an agreement with Germany avoided an immediate war with that country and could satisfy Soviet territorial ambitions in eastern Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, and Bessarabia ; an alliance with Britain and France offered no territorial gains and a war with Germany in which the USSR was most likely to bear the brunt of a German attack.
As a result of this territorial loss to the Soviets, many Finnish Karelians fled or were evacuated from their homes, relocating to areas that remained within the borders of Finland.
Both Russia and Finland have repeatedly stated that no open territorial dispute exists between the two countries.
Within two decades of the failure of Piłsudski's grand scheme, all the countries that he had viewed as candidates for membership in the Intermarium federation had fallen to the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany, except for Finland ( which nonetheless suffered some territorial losses in the Winter War ).

Finland and demands
The demands led to demonstrations and large-scale strikes in both industry and agriculture throughout Finland.
* 1944 – Continuation war: the Soviet Union demands an unconditional surrender from Finland during the beginning of partially successful Vyborg – Petrozavodsk Offensive.
The demands were that Finland cede the Karelian Isthmus, including the city of Viipuri, and Finland's shore of Lake Ladoga.
The Soviet Union had lost substantial territory in eastern Europe as a result of the treaty of Brest-Litovsk, where it gave in to German demands and ceded control of Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia and Finland, among others, to the " Central Powers ".
The Soviet demands on Finland in the months prior to the outbreak of war had roused public opinion.
Despite the Finnish and Russian demands of including much of today's Swedish Torne River Valley territory into the autonomous Russian Grand Duchy of Finland, the area remained part of the Kingdom of Sweden as a result of the peace treaty signed between Russia and Sweden in 1809.
The Svecoman ( Swedish Svekoman ) movement was a Swedish nationalist movement that arose in the Grand Duchy of Finland at the end of the 19th century chiefly as a reaction to the demands for increased use of Finnish vigorously presented by the Fennoman movement.
** The Soviet Union demands troop transfer rights through Finland
Finland, alliance demands from Hitler's Germany and the Ryti-Ribbentrop-agreement.
The Brigade trains units suited for combat on the heavy snow and poor road-infrastructure areas of Northern Finland, and has several variations from normal Finnish Army training schedules and equipment to meet these demands, such as the light tracked all-terrain vehicles used for fast transportation of troops especially during wintertime.

Finland and was
His wife joined him at Toruń in December, but in April 1712 a peremptory ukase ordered him off to the army in Pomerania, and in the autumn of the same year he was forced to accompany his father on a tour of inspection through Finland.
Immediately on his return from Finland, Alexei was dispatched by his father to Staraya Russa and Lake Ladoga to see to the building of new ships.
Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto was born in Kuortane, Finland.
When Aalto was 5 years old, the family moved to Alajärvi, and from there to Jyväskylä in Central Finland.
This was during the Second World War, and he involved his students in designing low-cost, small-scale housing for the reconstruction of war-torn Finland.
Weil was in Finland when World War II broke out ; he had been traveling in Scandinavia since April 1939.
Weil was mistakenly arrested in Finland at the outbreak of the Winter War suspected of spying ; however, accounts of his life having been at danger have been shown to be exaggerated.
Colonel Kari Renko, an engineer at the Finnish Air Force, was quoted by Helsingin Sanomat as saying about this failure, " The problem involves the rocket engines which have been in use for decades " and that Finland first was told of the problems by the Americans about two years ago.
* In addition, Finnish, a Baltic-Finnic language, has calqued the Swedish term as Itämeri " East Sea ", disregarding the geography ( the sea is west of Finland ), though understandably since Finland was a part of Sweden from the Middle Ages until 1809.
In 2011, the Gulf of Finland was completely frozen on 15 February.
This was also seen in Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Pacific, Scandinavia, Serbia, Spain, Thailand, Philippines and Mexico.
However, the Canal du Midi was built using concrete in 1670, and there are concrete structures in Finland that date from the 16th century.
It was however the lumber industry that continued to dominate the city, drawing in a large immigrant labor force, most of whom were Swedish ( two of Cadillac's sister cities are Mölnlycke, Sweden, and Rovaniemi, Finland ).
The first population census was taken in 1749 when Finland was a part of Sweden.
This endogamy limitation wasn't limited to royalty ; in Finland, for example, it was a crime-until modern times-to seduce and defraud into marriage by declaring a false social class.
His father, Donald Walton Lynch, was a research scientist working for the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and his mother, Edwina " Sunny " Lynch ( née Sundholm ), was an English language tutor whose grandfather's parents had immigrated to the United States from Finland in the 19th century.
On the Danish flag, the cross design, which represents Christianity, was subsequently adopted by the other Nordic countries ; Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Åland Islands and the Faroe Islands, as well as the Scottish archipelagos of Shetland and Orkney.
Inspired by the minority language example of Norsk Allkunnebok, a Swedish-language encyclopedia of Finland was initiated in 1969 and eventually published as Uppslagsverket Finland ( 3 volumes, 1982 – 1985 ; 2nd edition in 5 volumes, 2003 – 2007 ).
Because of its graphic violence and terror, the original version of the movie was banned in several countries, including Finland, Germany, Iceland and Ireland.
In Finland, The Evil Dead was later released uncut on DVD by Future Film, and rated K-18.

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