Finnish People's Organisation
Finnish People's Organisation Suomen Kansan Järjestö | |
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| Leader | Arvi Kalsta |
| Founded | 1933; 91 years ago (1933) |
| Dissolved | 1936; 88 years ago (1936) |
| Succeeded by | Organisation of National Socialists |
| Headquarters | Mikonkatu, Helsinki |
| Newspaper | Herää Suomi, Hakkorset, Hakaristi |
| Ideology | Nazism |
| Political position | Far-right |
The Finnish People's Organisation (Finnish: Suomen Kansan Järjestö, SKJ) (Swedish: Finlands Folkorganisation, FFO) was a bilingual Nazi party founded by Jaeger Captain Arvi Kalsta. Supporters of the movement were also called Kalstaites after the leader. The inaugural meeting of the organization was held in March 1933 and was attended by about 500 members. SKJ published the magazines Herää Suomi ('Finland Awake'), Hakkorset and Hakaristi ('Swastika', editor Thorvald Oljemark). In addition to its own magazines, the organization had its own publishing house Vasara. The organization wore a brown uniform like the Sturmabteilung of the German Nazi Party, and used the greeting "Finland Awake!"[1][2]
The party received some support among the Swedish-speaking population of Uusimaa. The organization received only 2,733 votes in the 1933 Finnish parliamentary election, with Jaakko Seise receiving almost quarter of the votes.[3][1][4] However, at its peak SKJ had 20,000 members. Due to Kalsta moving to Rovaniemi to run a hotel the party ceased its activities in 1936, but Kalsta resumed his Nazi career in 1940 by founding the Organisation of National Socialists.[2]
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15th anniversary of White Victory Parade, SKJ and IKL marching -
SKJ poster: "Worker, free yourself from your oppressors!" -
Captain Arvi Kalsta addressing an SKJ meeting -
Front page of Herää Suomi -
SKJ campaign truck
Election results
[edit]Parliament of Finland
[edit]| Date | Votes | Seats | Position | Size | |||
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| # | % | ± pp | # | ± | |||
| 1933 | 2,103 | 0.19% | + 0.19 | 0 / 200
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No seats | 9th |
Sources
[edit]- Hanski Jari (2006). Juutalaisvastaisuus suomalaisissa aikakauslehdissä ja kirjallisuudessa 1918–1944. Diss. Helsinki: Helsingin yliopisto. p. 37. ISBN 952-10-3015-1. online version
References
[edit]- ^ a b Aapo Roselius, Oula Silvennoinen, Marko Tikka (2016). Suomalaiset fasistit. WSOY. ISBN 9789510417058.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ a b Ekberg, Henrik (1991). Führerns trogna följeslagare: Den finländska nazismen 1932–1944. Schildts. pp. 188–194. ISBN 951-50-0522-1.
- ^ Ekberg, p. 79–80.
- ^ "Suomen tilastollinen vuosikirja 2004" (PDF). Retrieved 27 March 2021.
External links
[edit]- The party program (in Finnish)
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