Archive: June 3rd, 2011
Tomorrow, June 4th, is a holiday in Finland. It’s the birthday of Carl Gustav (Emil) Mannerheim, (1867-1951), a Finnish political and military leader, explorer, former general in the Russian Imperial Army and President of Finland from 1944 to 1946. He supported close ties with Sweden and Western European culture and opposed both socialism and the national [...]
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