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  Lapua Movement
Lapua Movement (Lapuan liike) was initially an anticommunist political movement in Finland.
The movement started in 1929 and was banned after a coup attempt in 1932.
After a trial, the Lapua Movement was banned in November 21.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/la/Lapua_movement.html   (519 words)

  
 Lapua Movement Info - Bored Net - Boredom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Lapua Movement (Lapuan liike) was a political movement in Finland, started in 1929, initially dominated by ardent anti-Communists, emphasizing the legacy of the White Guards and the Civil War in Finland, however soon turning into more of a Fascist movement.
Many politicians, and also high military officers, were initially sympathetic with the Lapua Movement, as anti-communism was the norm in the educated classes after the Civil War.
Finland's foreign relations and reputation were without doubt damaged by the broad support the Lapua Movement initially was shown by Finland's elite, and by the ties between the Movement, the White Guards and Finland's army.
www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/l/la/lapua_movement.html   (662 words)

  
 Lapua Movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lapua Movement (Lapuan liike) was a political movement in Finland.
The movement saw itself as the badly needed restorator of what was won in the Civil War.
The leaders of the Lapua Movement were Vihtori Kosola and general Kurt Martti Wallenius.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lapua_Movement   (918 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "Lapua Movement": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud of Finland to incorporate in a new controlled organization what was left from the disbanded extreme right-wing Lapua Movement also didnt meet with much success (Rintala 1962a).
Its main foreign models appear to have been the Finnish Lapua movement, the German Nazis, and the Italian Fascists, although there is no hard evidence of any direct collaboration with the latter...
It was influenced by European fascism, and more immediately by the Lapua movement in neighbouring Finland.
www.amazon.com /phrase/Lapua-Movement   (501 words)

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