Petsamo
Americannoun
noun
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Petsamo province and southern Karelia to Russia, which also gets a lease on the naval base at Porkkala-Udd, commanding the Gulf of Finland.
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There are 50 Finnish farmers�mostly refugees from the northern district of Petsamo, now Russian territory�who live with their 300 children in lean-tos and shacks.
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These terms�the 1940 frontiers, the harbor of Petsamo lost to Russia, and a heavy indemnity�would have reduced Finland to a position of economic dependency and more or less permanent military impotence.
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The same foreign agencies . . . allege that 'The Russians lost Petsamo.'
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Although Finland might be cut in half laterally and Petsamo crippled as a supply base, the Finns in the south could still get supplies from Sweden by way of the Gulf of Bothnia.
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