Finnish war reparations to the Soviet Union

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War reparations of Finland to the Soviet Union were originally worth US$300,000,000 at 1938 prices. Finland agreed to pay the reparations in the Moscow Armistice signed on 19 September 1944. The protocol to determine more precisely the war reparations to the Soviet Union was signed in December 1944, by the prime minister Juho Kusti Paasikivi and the chairman of the Allied Control Commission for controlling the Moscow Armistice in Helsinki, Andrei Zhdanov.

Tampella steam engines being delivered as war reparations

Celebration of the final Finnish war reparations deliveries in the Exhibition Hall in Helsinki on September 23, 1952. Finnish president J. K. Paasikivi is sitting in the middle of the first row.

Loading of the last war reparation train at Kone Ltd's workshop in Hyvinkää 28.8.1952

Moscow Armistice

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The Moscow Armistice was signed between Finland on one side and the Soviet Union and United Kingdom on the other side on 19 September 1944, ending the Continuation War. The Armistice restored the Moscow Peace Treaty of 1940, with a number of modifications.

Finnish and Soviet officers gather for negotiations on September 5, 1944