Carélie orientale
The idea of annexing East Karelia to Finland ("Greater Finland") was widely supported in newly independent Finland. It was especially popular during World War II when it seemed it could be done after a German conquest of the Soviet Union. Most of East Karelia was occupied by Finnish forces 1941–1944. The war was accompanied by hardship for the local ethnic Russian civilians, including forced labour and internment in prison camps as enemy aliens. After the Moscow Armistice, calls for annexation of East Karelia have virtually disappeared.