page_title: Night Frost Crisis
hierarchical_section_title: Night Frost Crisis
caption_attribution_description: English: When Urho Kekkonen (left} turned 60 years old, Nikita Khrushchev (right of Kekkonen) wanted to come to Finland to congratulate his friend. The party at Tamminiemi went on until five in the morning. Suomi: Urho Kekkosen täyttäessä 60 vuotta Nikita Hruštšev (kesk.) halusi tulla onnittelemaan ystäväänsä Suomeen. Jatkot Tamminiemessä kestivät aamuviiteen.
context_page_description: The Night Frost Crisis or the Night Frost was a political crisis that occurred in Soviet-Finnish relations in the autumn of 1958. It arose from Soviet dissatisfaction with Finnish domestic policy and in particular with the composition of the third government to be formed under Prime Minister Karl-August Fagerholm. As a result of the crisis, the Soviet Union withdrew its ambassador from Helsinki and put pressure on the Finnish government to resign. The crisis was given its name by Nikita Khrushchev, who declared that relations between the countries had become subject to a "night frost".
context_section_description: The Night Frost Crisis (Finnish: yöpakkaskriisi) or the Night Frost (Finnish: yöpakkaset) was a political crisis that occurred in Soviet-Finnish relations in the autumn of 1958. It arose from Soviet dissatisfaction with Finnish domestic policy and in particular with the composition of the third government to be formed under Prime Minister Karl-August Fagerholm. As a result of the crisis, the Soviet Union withdrew its ambassador from Helsinki and put pressure on the Finnish government to resign. The crisis was given its name by Nikita Khrushchev, who declared that relations between the countries had become subject to a "night frost".
caption: Urho Kekkonen (seated, centre-left) with Nikita Khrushchev (seated, centre-right), celebrating Kekkonen's 60th birthday in 1960.
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