Republic of Finland

Finland, also known by its full name the Republic of Finland, is a nation in Northern Europe. it borders Norway, the Kingdom of Sweden and the Greater German Reich.

History
Finland in 1952 could be considered one of the few true victors of the war, having successfully not only recovered the territory lost to the Soviet Union in the Winter War of 1939, but also beyond. In what is called the Heimojen Vapaussota (Kinship liberation war) in Finland, their forces rolled over the border into the Soviet Union, cutting the Murmansk railway and taking Petrozavodsk (now called Äänislinna) with the assistance of their German brothers-in-arms, all of contemporary Karelia, not to mention the Kola peninsula would be captured and held by Finland in the war.

President Risto Ryti won his reelection in 1946 as an extremely popular candidate, and during his second term the nation witnessed the funeral of national hero Marshal Mannerheim, and the official peace terms signed with Germany, that gave Finland control over her eastern territory.

Politics
The nation in January 1952 is still led by Ryti and his National Progress Party. All is not completely rosy however, and Finland will have to realise her own problems as the prelude to the 1952 presidential election begins.

Finland has officially maintained a policy of removal for non-Finns in Karelia, who have been rounded up in containment camps and deported into German occupied territory, but this has been inefficient due to budget cuts.

The cities of Murmansk and Petroskoi (Petrozavodsk in Russian) were renamed Muurmanni and Äänislinna following Finland's conquest of Russian Karelia and the Kola Peninsula in World War II.