Abstract
The period immediately following the armistice of September 1944 is frequently referred to as ‘the Years of Peril’ in Finland. Although the appropriateness of the name has often been questioned, it nevertheless reflects the uncertainty and fear of the Finnish people at that time. An Allied Control Commission came to Finland, as to all of the other defeated states in the war, to supervise the implementation of the armistice conditions. It functioned directly under the Soviet High Command. The Chairman was Colonel-General A.A. Zhdanov, who reported directly to the Kremlin. There were also British members of the Commission, but they were little more than observers. As an instrument of Soviet foreign policy, the task of the Control Commission was to ensure that Finland remained within the sphere of influence of the USSR, that is, in the words used at the time, to pursue a foreign policy that was friendly to the Soviet Union.
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