Refugee crises · TURNING POINT ·
Evacuation of Finnish Karelia (1944)
On the Refugee crises map as “Viipuri and Karelia”
Sep 1944 — Under the Moscow Armistice Finland again cedes Karelia and its second city, Viipuri (Vyborg). Almost all its people, about 410,000 or one Finn in nine, leave rather than live under Soviet rule, and are resettled across Finland under the Land Acquisition Act of 1945.
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- Turning point
- Chapter
- Polish population transfers (chapter 3 of Refugee crises)
- Atlas
- Uprooted: Refugees in Europe 1945–1960 and Indochina 1975–1990
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