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Finland’s low-profile defence policy changed slightly as a result of Soviet withdrawal from the Porkkala naval base. As the prospects for neutrality became more realistic defence spending was increased modestly and a defence policy with a slightly higher profile was adopted. However, knowing the Soviet suspicion towards armed neutrality the Finns did not want to appear to base their new neutrality on armaments. This was probably wise since the strongest aspect in Finland’s defences policy continued to be a high preparedness against the traditionalist threat scenario of a Soviet occupation.
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B. V. Ganyushkin, Sovremenny neytralitet: politika neytraliteta i nostoyanny neutralitet v usloviyakh borb’by za mir Moscow: Inst. mezhdunarod. otnosheniy, 1958, p. 27. Quotation provided by Roy Allison.
For example, A. A. Gromyko et al. (eds), Diplomaticheskij slovar’, Moscow, 1961, p. 394;
V. V. Pohlebkin, Finlandija i Sovetskj Sojuz, Moscow 1961, p. 18;
B. V. Ganjushkin, Sovremennyj nejtralitet, Moscow, 1958, pp. 26–7. All cited in Bo Petersson, ‘From avoiding the subject to outright criticism: Soviet Commentators and the Vexing Case of Finnish Neutrality’, p. 50. The system of transliteration used here is as used by Bo Petersson.
Pekka Visuri, Totaalisesta sodasta kriisinhallintaan, Helsinki 1989, p. 195.
Wolf H. Halsti, Suomen puolustuskysymys Helsinki 1954, p. 48, 73 and 47.
Heinz Danzmayr, ‘The Conception of Austrian Security Policy and the Strategic Aims of Austria with Regard to the Current Situation’, in Bo Huldt (ed.), Neutrals in Europe: Austria, Stockholm 1987, p. 39.
See Risto E. J. Penttilä, ‘Totaalisesta maanpuolustuksesta turvallisuuspolitiikkaan’, Ulkopolitiikka, 3/1988.
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Penttilä, R.E.J. (1991). One-Armed Neutrality, 1956–61. In: Finland’s Search for Security through Defence, 1944–89. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11636-2_6
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