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In 1941, for example, Finnish soldiers overran a Soviet consulate in Petsamo, Finland, and after a fierce gun battle managed to capture a partially burned codebook.

For eight years the Finns, their territory reduced 12% by Russia's annexation of Karelia and Petsamo province, have worked in shipyards, lumber camps, factories and foundries to meet the harsh Russian levy.

Russia to get the port of Petsamo, Rumania to get Transylvania.

Instead of the tip of the Ribachi Peninsula, commanding the approach to far-northern Petsamo, the Russians had now taken Petsamo itself and enough surrounding territory to cut off Finland from the Arctic, restore the Tsarist frontier with Norway.

With Petsamo's nickel mines threatened by the Russian drive and a Lapland winter making up, the German determination to stick around was beginning to cool.