Word: mannerheim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second northernmost capital (after Iceland's Reykjavik). While the navy's Russian-built destroyers rode at anchor in the harbor, the army's British tanks and French artillery rolled through the streets toward Senate Square, where officials honored the memory of Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, who half a century ago led the force that established Finland's democratic regime...
...giant neighbors-first Sweden and then, after 1809, Czarist Russia. After revolution toppled the Czar in 1917, the Bolsheviks repudiated imperialism and granted Finland its demand for independence. Civil war broke out when Bolshevik followers tried to seize power in the newly independent state, and ended only when Mannerheim defeated the Communists and installed a democratic regime that excluded them-a victory that left a legacy of left-right hostility that still plagues the country...