Editing Sword Scabbard Declaration (section)

==Background==

===World War I===
During the [[Civil War in Finland]], in February 1918, General Mannerheim, the commander of the anti-communist [[White Guard (Finland)|White Guards]], wrote his famous [[Mannerheim's Order of the Day|Order of the Day]], in which he declared that he would not set his sword to the scabbard ''"until Lenin's last soldier and hooligan is deported from Finland and [[East Karelia|White Karelia]]"'' ("... ennen kuin viimeinen Leninin soturi ja huligaani on karkoitettu niin hyvin Suomesta kuin Vienan Karjalastakin.").

The events at the end of [[World War I]] made this goal hard to accomplish, but nevertheless, two attempts were made to this end: the [[Viena expedition]] in 1918 and the [[Aunus expedition]] in 1919, during the [[Russian Civil War]], had allowed Finland to occupy and annex two regions of East Karelia - [[Repola]] and [[Porajärvi]] respectively.

===Between the wars===
Hostilities between Finland and [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Soviet Russia]] came to an end with the signing of the [[Treaty of Tartu (Russian–Finnish)|Treaty of Tartu]] in 1920. In accordance with the treaty, Soviet Russia ceded [[Pechengsky District|Petsamo]] to Finland and guaranteed special freedoms to the [[Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic|Karelian SSR]]. In return, Finland had to give up the two previously annexed Karelian counties. This was seen by many Finns as a very bad deal. The peace treaty thus got a nickname, "a Shame Peace" (''Häpeärauha'' in Finnish).{{Citation needed|date=May 2008}}

===World War II===
Following the [[Continuation War|Soviet attack]] on Finland of 25 June 1941, Finland was again at war with its eastern neighbour. On 10 July 1941, Mannerheim referred to his 1918 declaration in his "Order of the Day" speech to his troops:  "... [I]n 1918 during the [[Finnish Civil War|War of Liberation]] I stated to the Finnish and Viena Karelians, that I would not set my sword to the scabbard before Finland and East Karelia would be free." ({{langx|fi|Vapaussodassa vuonna 1918 lausuin Suomen ja Vienan karjalaisille, etten tulisi panemaan miekkaani tuppeen ennen kuin Suomi ja Itä-Karjala olisivat vapaat.}}) This ''Order of the Day'' signified the beginning of an offensive, which would result in a three-year-long occupation of Eastern Karelia.