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    The Lapua Movement (Finnish: Lapuanliike, Swedish: Lapporörelsen) was a radical Finnish nationalist, fascist, pro-German and anti-communist political movement...
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    Lapua (Finnish: [ˈlɑpuɑ]; Swedish: Lappo) is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located next to the Lapua River in the region of South Ostrobothnia...
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    kapina, Swedish: Mäntsäläupproret) was a failed coup attempt by the Lapua Movement to overthrow the Finnish government. On 27 February 1932 some 400 armed...
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  • anti-communist political party. IKL was the successor of the previously banned Lapua Movement. It existed from 1932 to 1944 and had an ideology similar to its predecessor...
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    Vihtori Kosola (category Patriotic People's Movement (Finland) politicians)
    far-right and anti-communist Lapua Movement political party, and later as the leader of the Patriotic People's Movement political party in Finland. Kosola...
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    August 8, 1890, Helsinki – October 28, 1972, Helsinki) was a Finnish Lapua movement activist, who played a key role in the Mäntsälä Rebellion in 1932. Vuorimaa...
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    arrested three times for fraud. She also had connections to the right-wing Lapua Movement. She became the subject of several books and stories. In 1932 she was...
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    The Völkisch movement (German: Völkische Bewegung, English: Folkist movement, also called Völkism) was a German ethnic nationalist movement active from...
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    Martti Pihkala (category Patriotic People's Movement (Finland) politicians)
    known as "Pihkala's Guard" and an influencer of the Lapua movement and the Patriotic People's Movement. Martti Pihkala was born into the Gummerus family...
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    unfolded with a violent attack by radical members of the right wing Lapua Movement on Communist supporters and bystanders at a court house in Vaasa. No...
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    protests. The Lapua Movement would find support from the National Coalition Party and the right-wing of the Agrarian League. The Lapua Movement would have...
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    emergence of the anti-communist Lapua Movement, President Relander appointed him as Prime Minister of Finland on the Lapua Movement's insistence. Svinhufvud was...
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    Lapua movement and then the Patriotic People's Movement (IKL). The Blue-and-Blacks was founded in the winter of 1930–1931, when the students of Lapua...
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    bondetåget) was a demonstration in Helsinki on 7 July 1930 by the far-right Lapua movement, attended by more than 12,000 supporters from all over the country....
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    Democratic Party of Finland. He was kidnapped and murdered by the fascist Lapua Movement. Happonen was born in Pölläkkä, Heinävesi, Southern Savonia. He was...
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  • far-right activist associated with the Nordic Resistance Movement, a European neo-Nazi movement. It promotes antisemitic conspiracy theories, including...
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    between 1920 and 1940 when the Academic Karelia Society, Lapua Movement, Patriotic People's Movement and Vientirauha operated in the country and had hundreds...
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    nationalist Lapua Movement organised anticommunist violence, which culminated in a failed coup attempt in 1932. The successor of the Lapua Movement, the Patriotic...
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    strongest in 1920–1940 when the Academic Karelia Society, Lapua Movement, Patriotic People's Movement (IKL) and Vientirauha operated in the country and had...
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  • Hakkila Lapua Movement members Finland 48 Released Finnish SDP politician and speaker for Parliament who was kidnapped and beaten by Lapua Movement members...
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    supported the semi-fascist Lapua movement, which requested radical measures against the political Left. But eventually the Lapua movement radicalized further...
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  • between 1929 and 1945, formally known as the Ustaša – Croatian Revolutionary Movement (Croatian: Ustaša – Hrvatski revolucionarni pokret). Its members assisted...
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    Parliament. The movement maintained good relations with Finnish fascist movements such as the Lapua Movement, Patriotic People's Movement and Academic Karelia...
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  • neo-reactionary movement (sometimes abbreviated to NRx), is an anti-democratic, anti-egalitarian, reactionary philosophical and political movement. The term...
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  • Chile. The Lapua Movement, established in 1929, originally a nationalist movement that opposed Sweden and Russia, turned into a fascist movement in the early...
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    Hindu Nationalist Movement 1996, pp. 19–20. Jaffrelot, Hindu Nationalist Movement 1996, p. 34. Jaffrelot, Hindu Nationalist Movement 1996, p. 40. Chitkara...
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    abducted near their home in Helsinki, Finland, by members of the far-right Lapua Movement. The plan was spearheaded by ex-White Guard general Kurt Martti Wallenius...
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    Paavo Talvela (category Jägers of the Jäger Movement)
    involved in both the founding of the Academic Karelia Society and in the Lapua Movement. In 1940, he was also involved in talks with Germany about forming a...
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    The lyrics of their version are: The fascist Lapua Movement and its successor Patriotic People's Movement of Finland sang a song to the tune of Horst Wessel...
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    from the Civil War developed into the proto-Fascist Lapua Movement in 1929. Initially the movement gained widespread support among anti-Communist Finns...
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