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[2] In addition to the Peace of Export, a well-known organization was the Finnish Patronage Association, founded by Gustaf Mannerheim and P. E. Svinhufvud, which distributed anti-communist bulletins to the press.


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In addition, anti-communist Enlightenment work was carried out by the Academic Karelia Society and the League of Independence, which broke away from it.


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Perhaps the most significant organisation that contributed to the emergence of the Lapua movement was the League of Front Men of the War of Independence, whose aim was to eradicate communism and eliminate site terror.


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[2] Birth of the anti-communist popular movement Lapua Challenge party In November 1929, the Finnish Trade Union Organisation (SAJ) unsuccessfully declared a general strike in the country, with the result that the attitude atmosphere in the country quickly turned anti-communist.


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[8] Members of the Communist Youth Union of Finland had begun to bully the burghers by rolling along villages in red sickle and hammer shirts, mocking independent Finland and Christian values.


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[8] [9] The Youth Movement was the most active and pure-learning part of the SKP, extending the spectacular activities recommended by the VI Congress of the Comintern to the core area of “white Finland”, Southern Ostrobothnia during 1929.


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[9] For example, at a celebration in Kurika, Jesus was called a “hooker's penis" [8] and a large sign depicting the Soviet flag was erected at the Lapua Workers' House, which read: “Let us strive under this flag”.


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[8] In Lapua, the communist Lapua Young Workers' Study Association organized SKP on the mandate of the Vaasa headquarters from 23—24.


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November 1929, a challenge party in Lapua, whose repertoire mocked Mannerheim and independent Finland.


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[8] [9] As early as 23 November, local schoolboys had thrown odour bombs at the occasion and scrambled to grate red shirts off the performers.


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Police interrupted the celebration before the situation was turning into an aerial brawl.


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Communists who arrived on the evening train on 23 November were not allowed to land from the train and gunfire could be heard from the Workers' House.


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[9] Finally the next day on November 24, about 1,000 people surrounded the Labor House.


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The Lapuans marched inside the house under the leadership of Vihtori Kosola and said: “There have been enough mockery of God, treasonous activities and degraded the Motherland, now the play stops here once and for all!”


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Following the announcement, the Lapuans violently took off their communists' red shirts and, after a harsh confession by Emil Tabell, an MP who arrived, threw out Emil Tabell, who arrived.


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[8] [9] Eventually the incident turned into a mass brawl, calmed down by the newly arrived police officers.


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In skirmish e.g.


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were torn from the walls of the Labour House with signs “God help the burghers” and “God has empowered capitalists to be robbers”.


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[8] Eventually the Communists were driven out of Lapua by schoolboy pranks and taunts.


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[2] The Communist-held Lapuan Workers' House was nailed shut.


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When it had to be opened again, following a change in circumstances in September 1931, a new domestic political crisis arose.


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Citizens' meetings Gustav Tiitu, an agrarian farmer, contacted Artturi Leinonen, editor of newspaper Ilka, to call a citizens' assembly.


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A notice was published in Ilka and Vaasa magazine: “The Citizens' Assembly of Southern Ostrobothnia in Lapua Seuratalo next Sunday, 1 December, starting at 1 p.m.


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The meeting will be presented with the growing sedition activities of the Communists.


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A bunch of Lapuans”.


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In the end, more than 2000 people came to the Citizens' Assembly and from other provinces, and the committee that organised it included the Coalition Rector Hilja Riipinen and the Vicar K. R. Kares of Lapua, in addition to Tiitti, Leinonen and Kosola.


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The Lapua meeting lasted more than three hours and more than 80 speeches were used.


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In his speech, Leinonen expressed that the common will of the people was to crush communism and asked if it could be accomplished by legitimate means.


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Referring to the 1925 Supreme Court decision to abolish the communists' front organization, Kosola criticized that the Communists do not “respect the religion and common fatherland held sacred by the Finnish people, the laws of Finland, and nothing else that is held sacred by us from generation to generation”.


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However, not all of the speeches corresponded to the legality of Leinonen and Kosola, for example, Helsinki-based activist Ahto Sippola called on the participants of the meeting to take arms with them and march to Helsinki.


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One of the prominent speakers of the Citizens' Assembly was the High Awakening leader Vihtori Duke, who said: “Selfish requests are prevalent and they are not understood by the men of 1918.


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It wasn't parliament that saved us in 1918, there were only intrigues and babbles.


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Whoever God wills to drown, that he beats with blindness”.


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The meeting expressed disappointment with the volatile domestic political situation and the fact that parties, particularly the bourgeois parties, when competing with each other, did not care in which direction Finland was heading.


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Eventually, the assembly unanimously decided that all forms of activity of the SKP had to be abolished or else civil war would break out.


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In its closing statement, it did not understand “why freedom of expression can be used to slander and discredit everything that is the basis and foundation of the chaste and legal knowledge of the Finnish people.”


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Furthermore, it wondered how a treasonous party was allowed so freely to act to dismantle all its system, which allowed the whole of this treasonous party to exist.


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However, the meeting gave all its support to the state power to eradicate communism.


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[2] Although the Lapua meeting of 1 December 1929 was the most impressive, it was by no means the only one, nor the first.


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Apparently pursuing a pan-bourgeois front, the Karelian Civil Union organised its first citizens' assembly on 29 November 1929 at Sortavala Seuraroom.


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The Karelian Civil Union, founded in 1917 in the Vyborg region, had already planned anti-communist civic activities in autumn 1929 and had been tasked with organising civic assemblies.


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The meeting linked the incipient movement to the 1918 battle and expressed all support for the Ostrobothians: “Hopeless would be the future of our people, if the Finnish blood would not fizzle when he saw the cataluses of the profane fatherland.


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In January 1918, the hearts of the men of Ostrobothnia and Karelia beat with strong feelings.


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It still does.


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The law of honor is the law of a man”.


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On 1 December 1929, civic assemblies of hundreds of participants were held besides Lapua, led by activist, Master Antti Sarven and Councilman Eero Hämäläinen in Kuopio, under deputy judge K. A. Raevaara and Asessori Onni Heinonkoski in Mikkeli, farmer, MP Evert Nukar and Head of the Southern Häme Patron District under Ernesti Suolahti in Hämeenlinna, Director K. Brofeldt in Kotka and District Physician W. Vartiovaara in Savonlinna.


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All the meetings stated that they would support any decision, whatever they would take in Lapua.


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Apparently, civic assemblies had already been planned much earlier, judging by their coincidence.


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In addition, the order of business at the meetings was the same in all localities.


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[10] Citizens Delegations The Lapuan assembly decided to send a 20-person delegation headed by Artturi Leinonen to Helsinki to ask the government to act to stop the sedition work of the communists.


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In the morning, on Independence Day, 6 December 1929, 1,000 people were facing the legation at the Helsinki railway station and the Academic Karjala-Seura (AKS) led by Vice-President Vilho Helanen.


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On December 7, the delegation gave the decisions of the Lapua assembly to the attention of the minority government in Kallio.


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The embassy was received by all parliamentary groups except the Communists.


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In addition, the embassy visited the President of the Republic Lauri Kristian Relander.


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The president was moved to tears when Hilja Riipinen, who served as President, announced that the people were demanding more acts than speeches from the state.


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Relander gave all his support to the popular movement, writing that the People's Movement “has been a blessing to this country and the people, of that I am sure”.


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On the evening of the same day, the embassy was invited to the Fourth of July celebrations organised by AKS.


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AKS gave full support to the movement and Urho Kekkonen announced his support in the organisation's voice supporter Suomen Heimo.


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Kekkonen indicated that improving workers' conditions would be supported, but no sympathy for the Soviet Union.


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Part of the embassy was still visited by an independence fighter, State Counsellor J. R. Danielson-Kalmar, who likewise expressed support for the movement's goals.


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[2] After the Lapua legation, delegations from different provinces began arriving in Helsinki and new meetings were organized.


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The situation developed really quickly in early December 1929.


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This first phase of the popular movement was very happy to be welcomed by the state and considered it to be a healthy and uniting state life while at the same time suspecting its power.


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The social democrats, who were fairly socialist at the time, accepted the anti-communist movement, not seeing it as a disadvantage, but rather a benefit.


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[2] The demands of the embassies produced the first victory of the popular movement.


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Just before Christmas 1929, a new Association Act was passed, forbidding the creation of a new association to replace the disbanded one.


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On this basis, the communist study associations could be abolished.


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[2] The second meeting of Lapua and the second major citizens' meeting at Lukko Lapuan Seuratalo of Finland took place on 15 March 1930.


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The meeting was officially nationwide and more formal anyway, as the meeting was only allowed for delegates from other organizations and civic assemblies.


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For an admission fee, the public was able to enter the


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In addition to Artturi Leinonen, the co-chairperson is H. A. Koristo from Turku, bank manager Isak Kaitera from Oulu and agricultural advisor Aatos Schildt from Jyväskylä.


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The secretaries were Deputy Judge Lauri Halme and Kauhajokelic Consulate M.


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E. Brush.


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The atmosphere at the meeting was considerably more tense and radicalized by the end of November.


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Although Artturi Leinonen and Vihtori Kosola, who became leaders of the movement, emphasised moderation in line, the field people at the meeting were fed up with politicians and other powers, gradually leaning more and more towards direct action in the foreign parliament.


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The leading figures of the radical line were Rafael Haarla, the vicar of Lapua, and the vicar general of Lapua, Gunnar von Hertzen.


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The enlightenment director of Northern Uusimaa's patron municipal district, Freeman Lauri Yrjö-Koskinen, insisted on acts rather than enlightenment, but mainly meant enacting stricter anti-communist laws.


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[2] The atmosphere of the movement was radicalized because the activities of the communists, despite the promises of politicians, were not abolished.


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Those in favour of the Direct Action line justified their opinion by the fact that “patriotic rebellion” was preferable to “patriotic legality”.


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They also justified by historical considerations; at first, the icemen had acted against the then law, but still their importance had been of great importance to Finland.


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MPs known as Communists were on various committees, where they also had access to sensitive and secret national defence information.


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The meeting dealt mainly with the communist press, which was not suppressed because in parliament the Social Democrats, RKP and Communists opposed the restrictions of the Freedom of Print Act.


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Lapua was particularly irritated by the communist Voice of Work (1924—1930) appearing in Vaasa, which proclaimed atheism and the world revolution.


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[2] Although it appeared on the basis of the meeting that the popular movement was already splintering in two, the meeting reached a unanimous conclusion: It was decided to establish an anti-communist and site terror NGO, which was to assemble all anti-communist entities as an umbrella organisation.


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An association was born called Suomen Lukko, whose 32-member delegation was chosen as the convener of Vihtori Kosola.


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Later, at Kosola's suggestion, Artturi Leinonen became chairman of Luko of Finland.


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Martti Pihkala, acting as assistant student Mikko Jaskari, was responsible for financial affairs.


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The seat of the organization was named Lapua, but the office was placed in Helsinki.


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[2] The members of the Finnish Luko were mainly agrarian and coalist in party affiliation, and there were only a few supporters of direct active action.


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In the fight against communism, Lukko of Finland supported the Enlightenment and legal methods of action.


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In the Agrarian League it was hoped and believed that the popular movement would only be channeled in support of the government, but supporters of direct action were not enthusiastic about the slow association activity of the Finnish Luko.


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[2] Action The Voice of Work fell silent The motion for amendment to the Freedom of Print Law Lapua was irritated by the opposition of the Left and the Swedish People's Party (RKP) to an amendment to the Law on Freedom of Printing, which was not adopted as desired by the Parliament in the early spring of 1930.


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The movement's attempt was to transfer control of the Freedom of Printing Act to the Attorney General appointed by the President of the Republic from the Minister of Justice, allowing the latter to decide in the Council of State the matter without discussing the closure of printing presses deemed to have violated it in accordance with the Freedom of Printing Act.


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[11] Example case of Vaasa County The apparent unity of a popular movement lasted only 13 days from the founding meeting of the Finnish Lukko.


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At the head of the movement, it was decided to disrupt the activities of the communists, and a newspaper printed in Vaasa, near Lappa, Vaasa, was chosen as the target.


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Gustav Tiitu had advocated minor daytime interference in printing, but he opposed the destruction of the printing presses.


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Although it seemed to rest, Yrjö Nikula, the former titular of Lapua and head of the Bank of Southern Ostrobothnia, continued to plan the attack.


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If the participants were caught in their act, Trade Advisor Rafael Haarla had promised to pay them potentially reprehensible damages.


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[11] Strike to the printing press On the night of March 28, 1930, direct action began.


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In the port area of Vaasa, farmer Pentti Alasaari fired a couple of shots into the air with his Mauser M1916 pistol to distract the police and give them an alibi.


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At the same time, Vaasa's internal telephone connections were disrupted, and 13 Lapuan men led by Yrjö Nikula, the head of the Bank of Southern Ostrobothnia and former titular man of Lapua, and Gustav Vannas, a motorist from Yurasa, broke in and broke up the print of the Voice of Work.


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The act was apparently carefully planned under Nikula's leadership.


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The perpetrators soon came to light, as police found a scoop lamp knife on the floor of the printing press bearing the name of Kullervo Leskinen, an employee of the Lapua cartridge factory.


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[2] On 3 April, the third citizens' meeting was held in Lapua in connection with the dissolution of the printing of the Voice of Work.


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Under Kosola's leadership, the meeting prepared a telegram that was sent to Prime Minister Kyösti Kallio.


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Telegram confirmed that the Lapua Popular Movement and Kosola were bent on illegal activities, but according to the text the movement had not settled against the government: the division of the Lapua Movement Suomen Lukko separates Parliament was surprised by the act and the Youth Republicans Kyösti Kallio and under the leadership of Helsingin Sanomat called for severe punishment of perpetrators.


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The delegates realised that the attack was a vote of no confidence by the Lapuans in the actions of Parliament.


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The act also sparked controversy among the Lapuan movement.


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Some of those involved could not accept the illegalities.


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When Lukko of Finland, led by Artturi Leinonen and Gustav Tiitu, disassociated himself from the act and condemned it as a crime, the popular movement broke in two.


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Vihtori Kosola, the leader of Vihtori Kosola, had not endorsed the plan at the stage of its drafting, but stood down to support the act, declaring that the one responsible for the act was in fact the parliament, which had not begun the process of eradicating communism.


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Artturi Leinonen, who had denied carrying out the attack, and Gustav Tiitu and Lukko of Finland lost their central place in the popular movement and the movement that started direct action took Vihtori Kosola as its leader, who himself had not sought a prominent position.


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His household, Kosola, became the central headquarters of the Lapuan movement.


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[2] The Lapuans publicly declared themselves in large numbers as perpetrators of the attack and supporters of the act.


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Under Kosola, Yrjö Nikula, Vihtori Herkena and Ilmajokelainen bank manager Iivari Koivisto, 72 men signed up as authors and supporters of the work.


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Eventually, Lapuan farmer Jussi Muilu, trainee Yrjö Hissa, and peasants Simo Lahdensuo and Jussi Perämäki became the actual violators.


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Rafael Haarla, the trade adviser, agreed to pay all the fines of those convicted.


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In the first issue of Activist n, the main voice supporter of the Lapuan movement</i>, 650 people registered as supporters of the act.


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The magazine became popular and was sold as many as 10,000 copies.


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The journalistic line reported by the newspaper was strongly anti-communist.


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The Vaasa riot and the Asser Salon ride on 4 June 1930 at Vaasa Raastuvancourt began to be dealt with the issue of breaking the print print of the Voice of Work.


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The predominance knew that the day would cause Lapuan movement, but the Popular Movement refused to cancel the demonstration.


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Early in the morning 1800 Lapuans arrived in Vaasa in 200 cars decorated with Finnish flags.


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Demonstratively, the procession of cars stopped first at the dispersed printer and in front of the landlord's official residence.


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The men then made an honorary visit to the hero tombs of Vaasa, during which hymns and patriotic songs were sung, as well as speeches were given.


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[2] Vaasa District Riot While the trial was in progress, the Lapuans assaulted Eino Nieminen, who was acting as a witness, who was alleged by Detective Central Police (EK) to be a red officer and an organiser of SKP.


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In the courthouse's second-floor vestibule, Eino Nieminen had to kiss with the peasants who surrounded him.


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After Sanaharka, supporters of the Lapuan movement carried Nieminen down the stairs outside the courthouse, tore off his clothes and assaulted Nieminen.


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The mob followed the act from the sidelines and police did not intervene.


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Press photographer Paavo Poutiainen instigated the perpetrators, and one of the most famous images in Finnish press history was taken.


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Some ten other leftists were also assaulted by the Lapuans, among them Allan Asplund, editor of the Vaasan social democratic magazine Nya Folkbladet.


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In addition, the Lapuans also fell victim to bourgeois minded citizens who tried to prevent beatings, citing the rule of law.


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[2] However, police master Gunnar Tallroth eventually rescued the battered Nieminen and took him to the police station.


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Nieminen was able to leave the police station just before supporters of the Lapuan movement penetrated the building and inspected it up to the cells without the force of the police officers or wanting to prevent this.


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When the cause of the Voice of Work, Communist MP Asser Salo stepped out of the courthouse, the riot worsened.


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Despite the fact that Governor Bruno Sarlin tried to appeal for peace in the district, the supporters of the Lapuan movement took hold of Salo and paraphrased this.


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Lapua's movement had already been planning to kidnap Salo when he had arrived to hear the injunction.


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Detective Central Police (EK) followed the incident by without intervening.


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Kosti-Paavo Eerolainen, a BC detective who was present, later joined the radical wing of the Lapuan movement.


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However, the Lapuans could not decide what to do with Salo.


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Salo was threatened with shooting during the Revelation, but was eventually taken to Lapua's youth club house, where he was forced to swear that he would never enter Lapua again.


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After this, Salo was taken to Viitasaari, where he was let go.


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[2] The men of the Lapuanmovement left after informing the editorial staff of the Voice of Work that the magazine would not be published even after the end of the two-month discontinuation period.


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After the Lapuans disembarked, Vaasa remained in the possession of military patrols.


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Lapuan Law Originally, Lapuan law meant the 1843 Government Rule and Village Ordinance of Lapua and its implementation.


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Also among the Lapua movement, the right of the Lapuans own hand began to be called Lapua law.


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According to the idea, the justification of the acts was determined by how much they promoted anti-communist activity.


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The legality of the act did not matter, as according to the movement's thought world, the “will of the people” interpreted by the Lapuan movement was above the law.


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On June 5, 1930, the Lapua Movement declared the Lapua Law into force in Southern Ostrobothnia.


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[12] In the early morning hours of 8 June 1930, Yrjö Hissa and Jussi Perämäki, who took part in the disbanding of the print of the Voice of Work, committed double suicide.


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The youths who were detained were counted as the first victims of the popular movement.


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They were buried with a hero's funeral in Lapua and Kosola laid a wreath on the tomb, which read the words of Kaarlo Kramsu's Ilkka poem: 'No justice in the land, who himself will not have'.


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The phrase became one of the motto phrases of the Lapua movement.


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Later in the summer, the second motto became “We do what we will”.


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[2] Summer 1930: period of pressure Bruno Sarlin of the Progress Party was removed from his duties as a landlord and Colonel Erik Heinrichs was appointed in his place, which it was hoped would improve the intervals between state power and locals.


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In mid-June 1930, however, the Lapuan movement began large-scale rides, or pluses; 254 rides or rides were made during the summer.


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Three rides ended in the victim's death and most of the rides were assaulted.


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[13] The relapses were carried out both by local Lapuans and by the strike forces of the Lapuan movement.


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Kosola wanted to press the ride-hailing government to resign and get Pehr Evind Svinhufvud of the National Coalition as prime minister.


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In their speeches, the Progress Party and the Agrarian League protested the movement's radicalisation and acts of violence, but did not withdraw their support from the Popular Movement.


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In the summer of 1930, pressure from the Lapuans was at its peak.


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The People's Movement also achieved its most important goal in succeeding in ending communist activities practically altogether.


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After the summer, most of the leading communists were serving time in prison, the labour magazines had been abolished and all labour houses closed.


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[2] Due to sympathy or pressure in many provinces, denominators and other officials issued orders to abolish the houses of labour.


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In Pohjois-Savo, for example, all 59 workers' houses were closed at the behest of the titular and landlord.


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[14] Some politicians felt that it was better to accept lawlessness so as not to break out another civil war.


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Prime Minister Svinhufvud (Svinhufvud II government from 4 July 1930 to 21 March 1931) even staked his unqualified support for the uprising and movement.


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He had visited South Ostrobothnia and the People's Movement in mid-June and became convinced of the popular popularity of the Lapuan movement.


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However, K. J. Ståhlberg, the first president of the Republic, agreed that illegality was indefensible, even if it was taken to suppress the crimes and treasonous activities of others.


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[2] A march and delegation for the upcoming march of the Lapua Movement took place from 20—21.


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June 1930 meeting in Lapua.


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Organizing the march was a large and sizeable job.


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For the meeting, the Lapuan movement invited representatives from all patron districts and at the same time organized a popular movement nationwide.


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The Lapuan movement invited and named the persons who were to hold meetings in their respective localities, who would again designate them as their representatives by signing a power of attorney.


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In practice, the credentials demanded by the Lapuan movement were signed without any organized meetings.


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At this point, among others, Dr. Kai Donner officially joined the Lapuan movement as a representative of Eastern Uusimaa.


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The delegates formed arrangements for the march to handle the delegation of the Lapua Movement, which thus became the official Lapua Movement Representative Council.


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The delegation consisted of 16 representatives from Southern Ostrobothnia, one from all the other provinces, and from Vyborg and Helsinki, two representatives from both.


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In total, this national representative council consisted of 31 delegates.


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After the march, the delegation declined in importance, but still the name Lapuan Movement Delegation served under various communiqués and pressures as the representative of the Lapuan movement.


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[15] Eventually, the government of Kyösti Kallio IV (16 August 1929—4 July 1930) made an unfounded decision in law to abolish all communist magazines for fear of otherwise engaging in illegal activities by the Lapuans.


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The decision was approved by Parliament on 1 July 1930, although no similar proposal had been approved earlier in the spring.


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In addition, the government submitted a motion to the Parliament to abolish the activities of the Communists and began to bend to the demands of the Lapuan movement.


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President Relander also took pressure on the government, which finally on 2 July submitted his resignation request due to the untenable domestic political situation, despite having just received a vote of confidence from parliament.


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On 4 July, in line with the goals of the Lapuan movement, a pan-bourgeois government led by P. E. Svinhufvud was formed, in which representatives of the Lapua movement were planned.


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K. R. Kare was envisioned as Minister of Education and Vihtori Kusaa or Kosola as Minister of Social Affairs.


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However, Svinhufvud did not want “two dictators” (meaning Svinhufvud and Kosola) in government, and business did not want to get entangled in government politics either.


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Compared to the government, the Lapuan movement was strong enough: It did not have to tie its hands.


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[2] The mutual antipathies (arising from theological differences) between the churchmen K. R. Kare and Paavo Virkkunen, who became Minister of Education, have also been thought to have played a role in the plan's tapering.


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[16] Abduction of MPs from the Constitutional Committee To give impetus to their demands, the Lapuan movement decided to show its mass power with a peasant march to Helsinki.


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To intensify the show of force, Vihtori Kosola gave orders to paraphrase communist MPs.


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Two days before the march, in the morning of 5 July 1930, a Lapuan force, led by Kosti-Paavo Eerolainen and Artturi Vuorimaa, penetrated the Session of the Constitutional Committee to kidnap the communists' Helsinki MPs Eino Pekkala and Jalmari Rötkö.


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Committee Chairman Väinö Voionmaa (SDP) and Ernst von Born (RKP) tried to prevent the hijacking, but Eerolainen wore his badge of the Detective Central Police (EK) in the situation and the Lapuans were allowed to take the MPs to the car for a ride, although both tried to grab themselves when carrying. to the door of the committee room.


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The deputies were rushed to Kosola in Lapua, from where they were released after the government announced that the state would not receive the march if the delegates were not released.


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On 4 July, the newly appointed Svinhufvud government had already bent on ordering all communist MPs to be detained “on suspicion of treasonous activity”, but the arrest order was not issued until the afternoon of the following day.


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Parliament afterwards approved the government measure despite doubts expressed by the Social Democrats and Swedes.


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[17] [2] The Peasant March On Monday, 7 July 1930, the Peasant March was held, which was the largest display of force in the popular movement and a turning point in the history of the movement.


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The peasant march was a well-planned massive operation in which 12000 supporters of the Lapua Movement marched by province and region into regiments, battalions and companies divided by patronage discipline and order.


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The marchers were Finnish and Swedish-speaking, as the language issue was of little interest to the Lapua movement.


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[2] Initially, the march was planned to be called “Patronage Marches”, but the commander of the Patron Municipalities, Lauri Malmberg, forbade the use of the Patron Uniform.


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The main idea of the movement was to hold a new event that would resemble the White Army Victory Parade on 16 May 1918.


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Although the movement was a parade of victory, similar events from abroad were also modelled on, notably the Swedish peasants' national defence march in 1914 and the march of the Italian black shirts to Rome in 1922.


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[2] Before the peasant march, the domestic political situation was extremely tense.


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With the government's position proving to be tenuous, there was even speculation that a coup by the Lapuans was possible.


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There was no thought in the movement to revoke actively government power, but some Lapuans had considered hijacking if the government did not act actively enough against the Communists.


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The movement tried to appease public opinion with a bulletin.


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During the march, both the Lapuan movement and the government pledged to fight for the eradication of communism and to support each other.


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However, the government asked the Popular Movement to stop exercising the right of own hands.


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[2] The Kallio government designed a package of laws aimed at banning all activities interpreted as communist.


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With the Social Democrats opposing the motion, the government in parliament failed to win over the qualified majority of at least two-thirds needed to amend the constitution, leaving some of the laws to rest over the elections.


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In retaliation, the Lapuans kidnapped (Revelation) 17—18.


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On July 1930 Väinö Hakkilan, the Social Democratic Deputy Speaker of the Parliament, from Tampere Teisko through Lapua to Kuortane and assaulted him.


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[18] In this case, in order to expedite consideration of the Communist laws, President Relander dissolved parliament on 15 July 1930 and ordered new elections to be held 1—2.


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on October 1930.


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[13] Intimidation and pressure from the Lapuan movement set the tone for the electoral battle.


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The government gave the land lords broad powers to block electoral activity on the far left.


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President Relander urged the people to vote for candidates who would pass communist laws.


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The Coalition and the SDP increased their number of seats, but with the far left losing out of parliament entirely, the seats of the left were not enough for even a third blocking minority.


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The new parliament passed communist laws in October 1930.


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[13] All political and professional organisational activities interpreted as “communist” were abolished, and persons suspected of being communists were denied the right to participate in elections under the Constitution of Finland.


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[19] Suspected communists were also imprisoned; often on fabricated or fraudulent charges.


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[20] [21] In Finland, the President of the Parliament is the second highest-ranking person after the President of the Republic.


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Thus, riding Väinö Hakkila, the Deputy Speaker of the Parliament and Municipal Mayor of the City of Tampere (1920—1952), against his will, was an impressive and publicity-inducing act.


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On July 18, 1930, the first ride took place to really nip in public support of the movement.


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The lows of the popular movement can be considered to begin from that day onwards.


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At the time, the Social Democrat in the highest state position, Väinö Hakkila, the deputy speaker of parliament, who was going to his summer villa in Teisko, was riding.


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Hakkila was stopped in Teisko at gunpoint and forced into another car.


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Even though he belonged to the right wing of his party, Hakkila was paraphrased because of his criticism of the modes of the popular movement, especially the amuses.


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Hakkila was taken to Kuortane, during the voyage she was threatened to be taken to the Soviet Union and was planted in an anthill.


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However, Jussi Muilu prevented Hakkila's killing.


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Eventually, Hakkila expressed support for Lapua's movement and promised to retire from politics, thus releasing him.


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[2] The ride in Väinö Hakkila was planned by Eino Haarla, a financial supporter of the Lapua movement, son of trade adviser Rafael Haarla, President of the Revolutionary War Front Union, Eero Rekola, a business assistant, and Yngve Mustonen, a business assistant.


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All were Tampereans.


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Haarla and Rekola recruited five paraphernalia, led by Arvi Kalsta, the ice captain who was later head of the Finnish People's Organisation.


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Kalsta was sentenced as the lead perpetrator of the ride to an eight-month discipline room sentence.


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The reputation of the Revolutionary War Front Men Union suffered badly with the ride.


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The act was widely condemned and subsequently as a sure supporter of the Lapua movement in the press, mostly only Uusiu Suomi and, to some extent, Aamulehti.


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With the ride of Väinö Hakkila, the county lord of Vaasa County, Erik Heinrichs, resigned from the position he considered untenable.


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Lapua's movement was put on the defensive by a ride that clearly showed the fieldfolk had been radicalised and initiated their anti-Social Democrat activities.


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The radical leader of the Lapua movement, the vicar of Lapua, Kaarlo Rietrikki Kares, disliked the idealization of violence, but declared that it was a kind of revolution and that life had its own hard laws.


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In many civic circles, this statement of Kares caused astonishment and consternation: This was followed by the most radical part: The portion of the radical statement of Kares, which spoke of overturning the autonomy of parliamentary parties, was received by citizens who supported the republican form of government on his hind legs.


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Kares had already declared Vihtori Kosola the “People's Leader chosen by God” in the summer.


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This proclamation subsequently became highly known.


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In September 1930, however, in Turku, Kosola tried to appease statements belonging to the radical wing, saying: “The Lapua movement has not sought and does not seek to dominate the country.


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For that are the government, the parliament and the various governing bodies”.


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[2] Onni Happonen murder Along with the slaying of Suutari Erik Itto, the most famous blood act of the Lapuan movement was the murder of Social Democrat Onni Happonen, chairman of the Heinävesi Municipal Board.


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On 1 September 1930, he was kidnapped in connection with a local council meeting in front of a large crowd of people by forcing Happone using violence into a passenger car.


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His body was found two years later buried in the forest just off the Karvio Canal along the road between Joensuu and Varkaus.


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The body showed signs of a fierce beating and an autopsy determined the death had been caused by a bullet fired in the head.


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[22] Otto Pakarinen, a laborer, was condemned for the killing of Happonen, who, however, had apparently taken the blame for a large sum of money.


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Despite eyewitnesses to the abduction, the true culprits of the murder went undetermined and unpunished.


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Members of the Lapuan movement from Kuopio or Heinävesi's own activists, who have been considered at least named Onni Hartio, are suspected of being the real culprits.


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[23] After the funeral of Onni Happonen, the wreaths laid on the tomb during the following night were dispersed and spread around the churchyard.


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[22] Autumn Parliamentary elections 1930 and the decline in support of the movement Parliamentary elections 1 to 2.


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October raised a political storm.


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The Lapuan movement pressured bourgeois parties to create a pan-bourgeois front.


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Although the unity of the popular movement began to crack, as moderates and radicals began to take together even more.


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Eventually, the movement's leadership urged its supporters in mid-September to stop the rides under pressure from the government.


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In September, an electoral alliance called the Patriotic Electoral Alliance was created, in which all patriotic, or practically anti-communist elements, according to the definition of the movement, regardless of party affiliation, were to be assembled.


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However, the electoral alliance received no more than 10000 votes.


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Intellectuals and power figures appealed before the election both for and against the popular movement.


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For example, Mannerheim and Danielson-Kalmari became supporters of the Lapuan movement.


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In the elections, the bourgeois parties received 134 delegates and the Social Democrats 66.


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The National Coalition increased its seat count from 28 to 42 delegates.


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The Communists' Electoral Organisation, whose nomination was subject to partial hurdles, received only 11504 votes, or 1.02% of the vote, yielding no seats in parliament.


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[2] The new parliament voted with the smallest possible two-thirds qualified majority to enforce the Republic Protection Act, which officially banned communist activities.


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In Finland, the far left did not have any legal rights to operate until after the Continuation War in 1944.


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In December, the Labor Peace Act was enacted, by which time the movement's key objectives had been pushed through.


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Around the same time, support for the movement began to decline.


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[2] The main driver of the popular movement's popularity was particularly the late summer and autumn 1930 ride scandals.


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Most of the fall rides were done locally as acts by individual individuals in the name of the Lapua movement and the spirit of Lapua, many without the knowledge of the movement's leading figures.


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On the other hand, the movement did not condemn rides either, so the rides ate up the movement's endorsement.


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Finally, the worst blow to the endorsement was the famous ride of the first President of Finland (25 July 1919 — 1 March 1925) K. J. Ståhlberg to Joensu on 14 October 1930.


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The ride idea was an ill-conceived project under the chief of the General Staff, Ice Kuussaari, Major-General Kurt Martti Wallenius.


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Wallenius, too, was considered to have been involved in the ride.


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He lost office and served time in prison until July 1931, when he was acquitted by the Supreme Court as innocent.


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However, Wallenius was unable to rejoin the defence forces until the Winter War.


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[2] [24] Ståhlberg's ride was a bad blow to the whole Lapuan movement, as the movement was generally considered to be the culprit of the act.


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The ride can also be attributed to the radicalisation of the movement's supporters.


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Ståhlberg was opposed from his old age in a circle of activists and the right wing of the Coalition, but still the whole Lapuan movement did not consider the ride sensible.


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For the Social Democrats and the libertarian bourgeoisie, a bourgeois legalman, Ståhlberg, the first president of the republic, was a symbol of constitutional democracy.


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The ride led to the abolition and merger of Suomen Luko into the Lapua movement after its secretary, Mikko Jaskari, was involved in the case.


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[2] After Ståhlberg's ride, the Agrarian League and the National Progress Party broke away from the pro-Lapuan movement group.


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The parties formed a so-called Legality Front with the Swedish People's Party, of which the Social Democrats served as a kind of external member.


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The Svinhufvud government decided that the riders had to be brought to justice and demanded the Lapua movement stop protecting the paraphrasers.


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When the police began to capture suspects of the mullet, Lapua's movement responded with mass force and organised a mass enrollment of paraphernalia in a building managed by Ostrobotnia in Töölöö, Helsinki, where 400 people arrived.


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Similar events took place around the country and eventually police had 10,000 suspects to question.


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The government again found itself in an embarrassing situation.


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The Lord of Vaasa, K. V. Martonen, on the other hand, did not even agree to continue the investigations, justifying that the province was so pro-Lapuan that it was impossible to catch the riders.


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In Ostrobothnia, the violence against communists was seen as patriotic acts, not crimes.


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The mass enrolments of riders across Finland were the last events of the anti-communist movement known as the Lapuan movement.


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[2] In the end, 14% of those taking part in the ride were challenged.


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There were 656 charges filed for the rides, 38 per cent of which lapsed.


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10% of those convicted were handed an unconditional prison sentence.


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So, of the riders, the vast majority did not receive any kind of conviction.


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One in five people who were victims of political violence during the rides demanded and received justice.


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[2] Although the rides of Väinö Hakkila and K. J. Ståhlberg were a bad blow to Lapua's movement, in a sense these two rides had the effect that the paraphrasers hoped for.


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After his amusement, Hakkila sharpened his attitude towards the Communists and got along well with the MPs of the Patriotic People's Movement, or former Lapuans, during the wars.


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Ståhlberg continued to stand on his line of legality, but no longer criticised the actions of the Lapua movement as strongly.


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[2] However, this was not enough for the more radical supporters of the Lapuan movement.


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In February 1931, with the presidential election battle at its hottest, the main pro-Lapuans' activist magazine called for the assassination of President Ståhlberg.


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By order of the Minister of the Interior, the edition of that issue was confiscated, but editor-in-chief Vihtori Kosola was not dared to be arrested.


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[25] The Lapua Liika Ry Presidential election 1931 and the objectives of Lapuan Liika Ry With the radicalization of Summer and Autumn 1930, moderate circles left the Lapua movement.


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22—23 p.m.


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At a popular movement meeting on November 1930, the Lapuan Liika Ry was established.


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The founders were practically representatives of the radical wing of the popular movement.


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The purpose was to create more organizational features of the popular movement and to clarify its ambiguous leadership.


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The Lapua Liiku Ry introduced district division and local divisions according to patron municipal districts.


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At the turn of 1931—1932, the organization had a membership of about 30,000.


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Although it is difficult to calculate, and it is not exactly known how much active part of the Spring—Summer 1930 Lapuan movement, the number of members of the organisation was probably considerably less than that of the previous popular movement.


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[2] However, the organisation of the movement remained halfway.


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In late autumn 1931, the former Chief of the General Staff Kurt Martti Wallenius, who as a good organiser, was elected General Secretary, Kurt Martti Wallenius, who, as a good organiser, was able to hold the wires in some way in his hands.


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Although the organisation had important financial supporters from the business and business world, such as Rafael Haarla and Petter Forsström, Wallenius' salary was paid by a volunteer group of Ostrobothian men assembled by Jussi Muilu.


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[2] However, the Lapua Movement, which transformed itself from the People's Movement to Lapua Ry, still managed to influence the country's politics in the future, especially in the March 1931 presidential election, which can be counted as the last show of political strength for the movement before the Mäntsälä rebellion.


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Although it was already more difficult to influence, as support for the movement had diminished considerably in the circles of the Agrarian League, the National Progress Party and the Swedish People's Party.


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[2] The presidential elections in March 1931 were becoming another political crisis for good reason, because Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, who was firmly supported by the Lapua Movement, and K. J. Ståhlberg of the Legality Front.


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In the Agrarian League, leaders such as Juho Niukkanen tried to get supporters behind Svinhufvud.


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Svinhufvud's endorsement was partly based on the fact that the election of Ståhlberg might lead to unrest and derail the country into a really bad crisis.


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Svinhufvud was also believed to hold with his authority the Lapua Movement and the extremists that sympathize with it in check.


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This was especially hoped for in agrarian circles.


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[2] Svinhufvud tried to cool the feelings of the sharpest Lapuans by releasing a communique through STT in February saying that all districts should accept the election result, whatever it may be.


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A couple of days after this communication, the ingredients for the crisis emerged when Activist magazine, which advocated the steep line of the Lapuan Movement, published a writing that was interpreted to mean that Ståhlberg should be fired if Svinhufvud did not get elected.


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Owned by Yrjö Nikula, Activist was edited by Vilho Viita and also had its Swedish language sister magazine, Aktivisten.


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The activist's cover featured a picture of Mannerheim, set by Kosti-Paavo Eerolainen, under which read “History always repeats”.


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An article written by Kosti-Paavo Eerolainen called “Shots” was found on the inside pages.


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In the article, it was written to readers that heroes like Eugen Schauman and Bobi Sivén would still be needed.


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New Finland tried to explain and understand the writing in its editorial, writing that Eerolainen's “uneasy mood can be embraced in light of recent state cases”.


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Erkki V. Kuokkanen, an agrarian minister of the interior, ordered the magazine's entire edition to be seized and the editor arrested.


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However, since the formal editor-in-chief of the magazine was Vihtori Kosola, the arrest was not carried out so as not to escalate the situation.


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[26] [2] Eventually, in the first round of electors in the presidential election, they were facing off against P. E. Svinhufvud, K. J. Ståhlberg and Kyösti Kallio, who was still in the second round.


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Ståhlberg did not become selected in the third round, as the Agrarian selectors went behind Svinhufvud.


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When it was announced in parliament that Svinhufvud was elected president by a vote of 151—149, the audience in the parliament's galleries erupted into applause, but Svinhufvud roared, “Shut up, this is no theatre!”.


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Those who supported the Lapuan Movement had come to follow the election, as was the case when voting for the Republic's Protection Act.


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The receding Relanderkin found the result easing, writing in his diary: “The cause of the fatherland came to be saved.”


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Svinhufvud managed to keep the Lapuans practically in complete silence for the next six months.


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And even so Svinhufvud played a major role in stamping the Mäntsälä revolt.


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Later, it has been concluded that the election of Ståhlberg would have raised a larger wave of Lapuan lawlessness than in the summer of 1930.


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[2] [27] Svinhufvud also generally implemented policies desired by bourgeois circles and the Lapuan Movement.


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For example, he decided to improve the state of national defence, which failed to improve for party political reasons, and was not easy in the future.


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The Lapuan Movement had called for Mannerheim as Chairman of the Defence Council, whom Svinhufvud immediately appointed to this post.


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Svinhufvud also secretly appointed Mannerheim as wartime commander-in-chief.


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Ståhlberg, on the other hand, disliked Mannerheim.


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[2] The Lapuan Movement really went silent for six months.


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Support for the movement fell further once the last goal had been achieved.


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Support for the movement had fallen all along as it had achieved its objectives.


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In general, the movement thus began to be seen as futile, once communism and the far left had been eradicated, a bourgeois government erected, site terror removed and Svinhufvud elected president.


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The movement began to focus on its next target, the eradication of social democracy.


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The Lapua Movement had already shown signs of anti-social democracy in the autumn of 1930, but in November at the founding meeting of the Lapua Joint RY it adopted the abolition of the SDP as its official goal.


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The whole of the popular movement had been based on high and strong risks for and against feelings, but the goal of eradicating the Social Democrats has many times been regarded as its biggest mistake.


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The Finnish people did not see the SDP as a threat, but they were not sympathetic to communism, as demonstrated by the results of the parliamentary elections.


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However, the movement began to believe truly in its phrase “We do what we will” and considered it possible that the SDP could be removed wherever the communists were.


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Especially it believed in direct action, because the demands of a popular movement, would not have passed without foreign parliamentary direct means, lawlessness and violence.


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The eradication of social democracy was justified by the fact that the SDP had voted against the Republic's Protection Act and tried to slow down the implementation of communist legislation.


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Similarly, it held that the remaining communists or other far-leftists in Finland had infiltrated this only remaining left-wing party.


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Accordingly, it was necessary to eradicate the entire left.


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Some extremists of the Lapuans were also apparently planning to get rid of the legal front, which was on good terms with the SDP.


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[2] With the radicalisation and destruction of the Lapua Movement on 17 September 1931, the RKP Minister of the Interior Ernst von Born gave the order to open the Lapua Workers' House, which had been nailed up in November 1929 immediately after the Communist Challenge Party.


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The movement had lived in silence, but von Born re-raised its will to fight, especially as von Born had challenged to ask which one would impose, the government or Kosola.


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A citizens' assembly was again held in Lapua, at the conclusion of which on 21 September 1931, the Lapua Workers' House was nailed and boarded up with a force of two thousand men.


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Iivari Koivisto gave a speech before nailing, and after nailing, a telegram was sent to the makers which read: “The house is closed and remains”.


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The nailing of the Labour House became a true Lapuan folk celebration and the government was forced to bend again in the face of Lapuan mass force.


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[2] Threat of coup The incident caused the coup rumours to start swirling again as it did among the left in the autumn of 1930.


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The rumours gained further impetus when statements were released from the Lapuan movement that spoke only vaguely of the need to change the state order.


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The Union of Revolutionary War Frontmen and the Provincial Movement were suspected as possible planners of the coup project.


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In November, the domestic political situation began to escalate and rumors grew.


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On November 14, 1931, a meeting was held in Lapua at which the so-called Programme Declaration was drawn up, calling for a transition to a majority electoral system, the tying of voting rights to the ability to pay taxes, the abandonment of social reforms, the transfer of power of parliament to the government, agricultural production support for the liberation of those involved in the illegal activities of the Lapuan movement and the prohibition of social democratic activities.


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The majority electoral system was intended to create a strong one-party bourgeois government, which would be strengthened by delegating the power of parliament to it.


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Tying the right to vote to the ability to pay taxes was apparently to guarantee that the poorer working population would not be allowed to vote Left, which would, however, be effectively wiped out by the banning of the Social Democrats (in which case the majority of voters on the left would probably have moved to vote “left-wing burghers”).


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The demands tell the Lapuan Movement, with its demands, moved considerably more to the right from the original popular movement.


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[28] In particular, the restriction of suffrage by wealth informed this, especially since the adherence of the original popular movement included many low-resourced peasants and entrepreneurs affected by the depression.


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[4] On 7 November 1931, in an editorial in Helsingin Sanomat, Eljas Erkko wrote that a coup d'état was going to be carried out in the country, probably led by K. M. Wallenius, who had just been elected secretary-general, and Arne Somersalo, editor of Aika's Suunta magazine.


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Instead, Esko Riekki, the chief of the Detective Central Police (EK), said, along with the Coalition and the press supporting it, that no action was planned in the country, at most a level of vandalism.


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Late in the year, the rebellion among the Lapuans was the failure of Svinhufvud to carry out the measures advocated by the Lapuans to bring down social democratic activities.


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As the BC was not trusted, the secret society Pro Patria et Lege — For the Fatherland and Law, which, as a moderate-bourgeois counterforce to the Lapua Movement, had been founded in autumn 1931.


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[29] The situation really began to escalate on January 25, 1932.


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A citizens' meeting was held in Mäntsälä, at the end of which, according to the Social Democrat of Finland, it was decided to nail down all the working houses in Mäntsälä.


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The Ohkola Workers' House and many other workers' houses had time to close and Bruno Jalander, the mayor of Uusimaa County, sent the Mobile Police Department to calm the situation.


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The Lapuans began to regard von Born as a traitor to the earth because he protected the socialists and their activities by his actions.


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On 27 February, Mikko Erich, MP Mikko Erich, who had defected from the Coalition Party to the Social Democratic Party, was to be held at the Ohkola Workers' House in Mäntsälä.


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Erich was considered a traitor to the ground, as he had before unveiled statues commemorating the Revolutionary War and had been an active Coalition, but later converted to socialist.


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On 24 February 1932, support troops from the Lapua Movement arrived in Mäntsälä and the district chief of the Patron Municipal District of Northern Uusimaa, Paavo Susitaival, asked to cancel Erich's speaking event because unrest might arise, but this request was refused.


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[2] Mäntsälä Rebellion Finally, on 27 February 1932, 400—700 patrons interrupted by shooting Erich's speech session at the Ohkola Workers' House.


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Initially it was supposed to disperse after the meeting was broken up, but the patrons, under Lieutenant Artturi Vuorimaa, moved to the Mäntsälä patronage house and refused to surrender to the authorities.


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On 28 February 1932, Vuorimaa issued a rebellion declaration and the Mäntsälä rebellion, or nerve battle between the government and the Lapua Movement, began.


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On the same day, Pro Patria et Lege — For the Fatherland and the Law was activated.


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On 29 February, the Lapuan Movement leadership positioned itself to support the rebellion after evening and nightly reflection.


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The next day the Coalition positioned itself to support the rebels and the rebels as well as the Lapuan Movement appeared to be on the head of the neck.


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Eventually, Ostrobothian troops arrived in Mäntsälä and 5000 to 7000 patrons moved throughout the country.


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Jyväskylä was held by the rebels and 1000 armed patron municipalities had gathered at Pori's patron council house.


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Similarly, there was movement in Salo.


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Although President Svinhufvud was right-wing, he could not allow another civil war and the wreckage of democracy.


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Thus, he gave his famous radio speech on 3 March 1932, appealing to the patron municipalities.


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This promise and appeal caused the rebellion colonies to disintegrate: [2] [30] 4—5.


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On March 1932, the Lapuan Movement leadership decided to put down the rebellion.


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On 5 March, the rebellion colony in Jyväskylä broke up, and the following night it was reported that Mäntsälä rebels would surrender.


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By 10:00 in the morning of 7 March, the insurgency leadership reported and thus definitively the rebellion came to an end.


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Lapuan Movement leadership was sentenced to prison terms.


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The activities of Lapuan Joko Ry had been banned in practice as early as 29 February under the Republic's Protection Act, but Interior Minister Arvo Mainland disbanded the organisation on 24 March.


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The decision was upheld by the Court of Racing 28.


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May.


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[31] The heirs of the Lapuan movement Vihtori Kosola returned from captivity on 20 October 1932 to Lapu and the event was a great folk festival.


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To continue the legacy of the Lapua movement, the Patriotic People's Movement was founded on 5 June 1932.


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The party began its activities on 14 June 1932 at the Assembly of Representatives in Lapua.


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The Patriotic People's Movement continued to see the goal of eradicating social democracy in its party program, but operated as a party with the rules of the game of democracy and parliamentarism, despite the background of its predecessor.


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The Patriotic People's Movement was only a parliamentary party among others in its emphasis on legality, parliamentarism and democracy.


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This annoyed many old representatives of the radical wing of the Lapua Movement who relied on active direct action, such as Kosti-Paavo Eerolalainen.


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However, the Patriotic People's Movement was quite a different political movement from the Lapua Movement and operated in a completely different social situation.


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[2] The Patriotic People's Movement formed a “Patriotic Electoral Union” with the Coalition in the 1933 parliamentary elections, obtaining 14 seats, eating the votes of the Coalition so that the Coalition's number of seats fell from 42 to 18.


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In the 1936 elections it gained 14 seats again and in the 1939 elections 8 seats.


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The party sat in Rangell's government from 4 January 1941 to 5 March 1943.


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Article 21 of the Moscow Interim Peace Treaty called for the abolition of all “pro-Hitlerite organisations”.


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These were interpreted by Finnish policymakers as referring to patriotic and national defence organisations such as the Academic Karelala-Seura, Lotta-Svärd, Patronuskunta and Patriotic People's Movement.


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In addition, the Finnish Brothers-in-Arms Federation had to be abolished.


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The Patriotic People's Movement was ordered disbanded four days after the conclusion of a peace treaty on 23 September 1944.


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[4] Leadership of the Lapua Movement Many times the Lapua movement is thought to have been a more derived organisation than it was.


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The only region under the effective control of the Lapua movement was Southern Ostrobothnia, which was almost in mystical value during the Lapuan years.


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In fact, the “Lapua Movement” was commonly referred to as the anti-communist movement in the country, as well as the events connected to it.


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Ultimately, the movement was united only by anti-communism, in the signs of which quite diverse persons, directions and circles participated in the movement's activities.


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The Lapuan movement did not have any membership book or card, but anyone could act in the name of the Lapuan movement.


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In the provinces outside southern Ostrobothnia, the spirit of Lapua, or anti-communist movement, relied on local organisations, patrons and former activists, as well as anyone who considered it necessary to eradicate communism in Finland.


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From the House of Kosola, contact was maintained by telegram and telephone with these major non-Ostrobothnian anti-communist circles; however, these were not directly under the command of Kosola or Lapua.