Exactly 50 years ago, a textbook on geography was censored in Finland because it spoke the truth about the Soviet Union. In the autumn of 1971, Finland was so Finnish that the communist Taisto Sinisalo got the whole system on his knees with one parliamentary question.
Tuesday On September 14, 1971, there was noise on the Parliament building. Deputies had returned from the summer pastures to Helsinki.
“Parliament started at full speed,” headline the next morning in Helsingin Sanomat.
“A cup of coffee, a brief recap of the summer news and then a full rally on top,” HS described. One of the news of the summer was that the SDP MP Erkki Tuomioja, 25, had grown a beard.
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