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| After three months of varying success but increasing pressure, the Russians breached the Mannerheim Line. Finland accepted peace, negotiated at Moscow, ceding to the USSR the Karelian Isthmus, the city of Viipuri (Vyborg), a naval base at Hangö, and territories totaling 16,173 square miles, with a population of 450,000. Most of the Finns in the ceded areas were to be resettled in Finland. | 1 |
| The Encyclopedia of World History, Sixth edition. Peter N. Stearns, general editor. Copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Maps by Mary Reilly, copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | |
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