Kyösti Kallio
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Kyösti Kallio was a Finnish politician who served as the president of Finland from 1937 to 1940. His presidency included leading the country through the Winter War; while he relinquished the post of c
Kallio in 1937
Kallio (centre, at the front) together with Mannerheim (left of Kallio) at the Helsinki railway station on 19 December 1940. Kallio had a fatal heart attack a few seconds after this photograph was taken by Hugo Sundström.
President Kyösti Kallio playing tennis at Kultaranta
Kallio in 1907.
Lapua Movement
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The Lapua Movement was a radical Finnish nationalist, fascist, pro-Nazi and anti-communist political movement founded in and named after the town of Lapua. Led by Vihtori Kosola, it turned towards far
Lapua Movement supporters beating the "red officer" Eino Nieminen in front of the Vaasa courthouse during the 4 June 1930 riot.
The Peasant March gathered on Senate Square
Woven textile with the emblem of Lapua Movement or the Patriotic People's Movement, seen in the National Museum of Finland