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On Fri. 22 Mar 1940 Soviet military personnel began to arrive at the H.....

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Soviet military personnel began to arrive at the Hanko Peninsula in Finland, which had been leased by the Soviet Union as part of the Moscow Peace Treaty that ended the Winter War.

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