The failure of the puppet state Terijoki government led to the ultimate result: in 1941, Moscow officially decided that Ingrian Finns were unreliable, and in 1942 Ingrian Finns were mostly internally deported to Siberia.

Three days later, the Finns decided not continue the offensive, because of an overstretched frontline.

Deeply concerned over cross-border ethnic ties of national minorities ( such as Germans, Poles, Finns ), in 1934 the Soviet Union decided to create new border security zone along its western border, and in 1935-1937 potentially disloyal nationalities ( including German ) were mostly ( albeit not completely ) deported from this strip of land to the inner parts of the Soviet Union by NKVD.

During the government negotiations following the election the True Finns decided against participating in Katainen's coalition cabinet, citing greatly differing stances on the EU, especially regarding bailouts for debt-ridden euro countries.

During the Winter War the Norwegian authorities secretly broke with the country's own neutrality by sending the Finns a shipment of 12 Ehrhardt 7. 5 cm Model 1901 artillery pieces and 12, 000 shells, as well as allowing the British to use Norwegian territory to transfer aircraft and other weaponry to Finland.

The partial removal of potentially trouble-making ethnic groups was a technique used consistently by Joseph Stalin during his career: Poles ( 1939 – 1941 and 1944 – 1945 ), Romanians ( 1941 and 1944 – 1953 ), Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians ( 1941 and 1945 – 1949 ), Volga Germans ( 1941 – 1945 ), Ingrian Finns ( 1929 – 1931 and 1935 – 1939 ), Finnish people in Karelia ( 1940 – 1941, 1944 ), Crimean Tatars, Crimean Greeks, Kalmyks, Balkars, Karachays, Meskhetian Turks, Karapapaks, Far East Koreans ( 1937 ), Chechens and Ingushs ( 1944 ).

During the War, the Soviets found it difficult to deal with the concrete bunkers used by the Finns and a request was made for a tank with a large howitzer.

The Finns ' first tank battle met with an unsuccessful end.

This is an unsolved problem which probably has never been seriously investigated, although one frequently hears the comment that we have insufficient specialists of the kind who can compete with the Germans or Swiss, for example, in precision machinery and mathematics, or the Finns in geochemistry.

The Finns called ( and still call ) this month huhtikuu, or ' Burnwood Month ', when the wood for beat and burn clearing of farmland was felled.

In 1638 New Sweden, a Swedish trading post and colony, was established at Fort Christina ( now in Wilmington ) by Peter Minuit at the head of a group of Swedes, Finns and Dutch.

Distinctively eurosceptic Finnish parties are True Finns, Independence Party, Communist Party of Finland and Workers Party of Finland.

With 79 percent of Finns in its congregation, the Lutheran Church is the largest in the country.

Finns enjoy individual and political freedoms, and suffrage is universal at 18 ; Finnish women became the first in the world to have unrestricted rights both to vote and to stand for parliament.

Only in occupations relating to agriculture, forestry, and school teaching was a rough parity approached, and as few as 6 percent of Finns worked in jobs where 40 to 60 percent of workers were of the opposite sex.

Local education markets expanded and an increasing number of Finns also went abroad to study in the United States or Western Europe, bringing back advanced skills.

Although the country was culturally, socially, and politically Western, Finns realised they had to live in peace with the USSR and take no action that might be interpreted as a security threat.

The dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 opened up dramatic new possibilities for Finland and has resulted in the Finns actively seeking greater participation in Western political and economic structures.

Finnish troops have participated in UN peacekeeping activities since 1956, and the Finns continue to be one of the largest per capita contributors of peacekeepers in the world.

76 % of Finns have visited Estonia and in 2004, 1. 8 million Finns reported visiting Estonia.

During these wars the Finns suffered 90, 000 casualties and inflicted severe casualties on the Russians ( 120, 000 dead in the Winter War and 200, 000 in the Continuation War ) compared to other nations such as Poland.

Especially so because of the lingering effect of the Swedish and Russian rule in their time, before the Finns first gained autonomy, and because of the precarious powerbalance eastwards, springing from a geographically extended yet sparsely populated state with a traditionally imperialist superpower right across the Eastern border.

While the Finnish political and intellectual elite mostly understood the term to refer more to the foreign policy problems of other countries, and meant mostly for domestic consumption in the speaker's own country, many ordinary Finns considered the term highly offensive.

Long divided culturally between majority Finnish speakers and minority Swedish speakers, Finns found common ground in opposition to the policy of Russian integration begun in 1899.

Finland's declaration of independence on 6 December 1917-though supported by most Finns and soon recognized by the Russian Bolshevist Council of People's Commissars-occurred in the context of the worsening power struggle, and therefore failed to either unite or pacify the nation.

The fate of the Finns during 1917 – 1918 was much like that of the peoples of minor nations separating from ( disintegrating ) large ones.

Although actual combat didn't spread to Finland until 1918, the war between Germany and Russia had a major impact on the Finns from its beginning in 1914.

These developments also encouraged Finnish nationalism and cultural unity through the birth of the Fennoman movement, which bound the Finns to the domestic governmental system and led to the idea that the Finnish Grand Duchy was an increasingly autonomous part of the Russian Empire.

The Finns called the integration policy " the first period of oppression, 1899 – 1905.

Conversely, a few thousand Finns sympathetic to Russia joined the Tsar's army in 1914.

In an effort to develop a car with better aerodynamics and lighter weight, it was decided to retain the 7 litre engine, but redesign the rest of the car.

By 1941, after an increase in aluminium prices of forty percent, an internal report at Citroën showed that producing the TPV post-war, would not be economically viable, given the projected further increasing cost of aluminium Boulanger decided to redesign the car to use mostly steel with flat panels, instead of aluminium.

After the success of the British Galleries, opened in 2001, it was decided to embark on a major redesign of all the galleries in the museum ; this is known as ' FuturePlan ', and was created in consultation with the exhibition designers and masterplanners Metaphor.

According to a 1977 Mother Jones article by Mark Dowie, Ford allegedly was aware of the design flaw, refused to pay for a redesign, and decided it would be cheaper to pay off possible lawsuits.

It was only a few years after the city of Siena had decided to abandon the massive expansion and redesign of their Cathedral in 1355 that Florence decided to greatly expand theirs.

As part of the redesign it was decided to improve access, and the second version was designed to stand upright, like an old fashioned double-door refrigerator, about six feet tall ( roughly 1. 80 m ).

It was decided to redesign the Gras cartridge case into an 8mm case, a transformation Captain Desaleux carried out.

During the summer of 2010, Google decided to redesign the format of the Google news page, creating a firestorm of complaints.

On November 23, 2008, it was decided from the poll that the next major version will include blogs, and the version afterward will include a GUI redesign.

After the failure of the N64 version, Titus decided to completely redesign Superman for the PlayStation.

In this case Cray decided the current design was a dead-end, and told William Norris ( CDC's CEO ) that the only way forward was to redesign the machine from scratch.

Watsuki decided to redesign the sword to make it look as the first one Kenshin had in the series, though it is more difficult to draw.

To address this issue WKMech design team decided to remove the belly wheels and redesign the floor of the vehicle.

Also a factor leading to the Grand Am's cancellation, were plans for all 1976 Pontiac A-body cars receiving the newly approved rectangular headlights, which would necessitate a complete redesign of the Grand Am's Endura nose and Pontiac officials decided that the expense of such a redesign could not be justified based on low production numbers.

The new class was largely designed at Ashford railway works but, as a result of the unexpected need to redesign and rebuild the SECR K class locomotives at Ashford, Maunsell decided to construct the Z class at Brighton.

The Southam chain decided to totally redesign the paper.

Father Telmon decided to redesign it to be a more standard Neo-Gothic structure, a style which was growing in popularity.

After Cartoon Network dropped The Woody Woodpecker Show, Universal decided to give most of the Lantz characters a redesign.

With this redesign, however, Toyota decided to revitalize the Vista nameplate.

Ferdinand and his son Ferry Porsche decided to redesign the car from the ground up to be built internally by Porsche.

Under these types of production agreements, companies did not have design control ; if a cooperating component manufacturer decided not to upgrade or redesign its products, SunTour could do little about it.

When it was decided to redesign and improve Rivonia Road through to the highway, the bowling greens and tennis courts of the Rivonia Recreation Club were in the way, and the Club relocated to a handsome new site in Achter Road in Paulshof, leaving only the Rivonia Hall and Library on the original site.