Four Days in August

FINLAND AND GORBACHEV'S SOVIET UNION DURING THE COLD WAR ERA, FINLAND BENEFITED GREATLY from its foreign policy of neutrality deferential to Soviet power known as the "Paasikivi-Kekkonen Line," named after presidents J. K. Paasikivi (1946-56) and Urho Kekkonen (1956-82). Finland carve...

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Published in:	Scandinavian review 2021-10, Vol.108 (2), p.62-73
Main Author:	Lavery, Jason
Format:	Magazinearticle
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Archives & records Cold War Coups d'etat European integration Politicians Politics Presidents Prime ministers War
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Summary:	FINLAND AND GORBACHEV'S SOVIET UNION DURING THE COLD WAR ERA, FINLAND BENEFITED GREATLY from its foreign policy of neutrality deferential to Soviet power known as the "Paasikivi-Kekkonen Line," named after presidents J. K. Paasikivi (1946-56) and Urho Kekkonen (1956-82). Finland carved out a distinct place in the cold war divide between East and west. Despite hosting a European security conference in 1975 whose accords are associated with human rights, Finland had avoided the topic in bilateral Finnish-Soviet relations-Soviets looking to defect to the West during the Cold War knew that Finland could only be a corridor to reaching asylum elsewhere, as virtually all who had sought asylum there were returned to the USSR. By Thursday, August 22, the junta had fallen from power and Gorbachev returned to Moscow from his short house arrest.
ISSN:	0098-857X