Aunus expedition

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The Aunus expedition was a 1919 Finnish military campaign into Eastern Karelia during the post–World War I turmoil, aimed at annexing the region from Soviet Russia.

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Label Occurrences
Aunus expedition canonical 1
Petsamo expeditions 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Finnish military operation
conflict
military campaign
alsoKnownAs Aunuksen retki NERFINISHED
chronologyPosition after Finnish Civil War
before Treaty of Tartu (1920)
conflictWith Soviet Russia NERFINISHED
country Finland
endTime 1919-10
goal annexation of Eastern Karelia to Finland
hasCause Finnish irredentism
Karelian nationalism
post–World War I turmoil
hasEffect failure of Finnish attempts to annex Eastern Karelia
strengthening of Finnish–Soviet border
languageOfName Finnish
location Aunus NERFINISHED
Eastern Karelia NERFINISHED
Olonets Karelia NERFINISHED
militaryTheater Karelian Front NERFINISHED
notableFor part of Finnish kinship wars in Karelia
use of volunteer forces from Finland
opponent Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic NERFINISHED
participant Finland NERFINISHED
Finnish volunteers
Red Army NERFINISHED
partOf Finnish–Soviet border conflicts (1918–1922) NERFINISHED
Heimosodat NERFINISHED
relatedTo Finnish Civil War NERFINISHED
Karelian question NERFINISHED
Vienna expedition
result Finnish withdrawal
Soviet control of Eastern Karelia maintained
significantPlace Olonets NERFINISHED
Petrozavodsk region NERFINISHED
startTime 1919-04
temporalContext Russian Civil War era
post–World War I period

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Finnish–Russian border conflicts hasPart Aunus expedition
this entity surface form: Petsamo expeditions