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- Murmansk_Legion abstract "Murmansk Legion, also known as the Finnish Legion, was a British Royal Navy organized military unit during the 1918–1919 Allied North Russia Intervention. It was composed of Finnish Red Guards who had fled after the Finnish Civil War from the White dominated Northern Finland to Soviet Russia and of some Finns working on the Murmansk Railroad. The Legion fought the 1918 Viena expedition of Finnish White Guards and defended the Murmansk Railroad along with British troops.Finnish White Guards had started their military campaign in March 1918. The goal was to annex White Karelia from Bolshevist Russia. British Royal Marines had invaded Murmansk at the same time to prevent the Germans and their Finnish White Guard allies from gaining the White Sea coast and the Murmansk Railroad.Murmansk Legion was armed with British equipment and wore British uniforms. The Legion was led by Oskari Tokoi and Verner Lehtimäki who were both promoted as Colonel by the British Navy. Strength of the Legion peaked in February 1919 and was about 1,200 men. Murmansk Legion was first approved by Lenin but he later condemned it, as did the communists left behind in Finland, since the British were on the side of the White movement although Finns refused to fight the Bolsheviks.Murmansk Legion was disbanded in 1919 as the British troops withdraw. Finnish government regarded them as traitors but United Kingdom and United States made their recognition of Finnish independence conditional, the legionnaires had to be either pardoned or allowed to exile themselves to Canada. In the autumn of 1919 most of the Murmansk Legion fighters returned to Finland but some 20 highest-ranked officers like Tokoi, Lehtimäki and Aarne Orjatsalo fled to North America. Some legionnaires joined later the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War and few of the youngest even fought in the Finnish Army during the World War II.".
- Murmansk_Legion thumbnail C05_sota-arkisto.jpg?width=300.
- Murmansk_Legion wikiPageID "3827150".
- Murmansk_Legion wikiPageLength "2981".
- Murmansk_Legion wikiPageOutDegree "34".
- Murmansk_Legion wikiPageRevisionID "600208049".
- Murmansk_Legion wikiPageWikiLink Aarne_Orjatsalo.
- Murmansk_Legion wikiPageWikiLink Allies_of_World_War_I.
- Murmansk_Legion wikiPageWikiLink Bolshevik.
- Murmansk_Legion wikiPageWikiLink Bolsheviks.
- Murmansk_Legion wikiPageWikiLink Bolshevist_Russia.
- Murmansk_Legion wikiPageWikiLink British_Royal_Marines.
- Murmansk_Legion wikiPageWikiLink British_Royal_Navy.
- Murmansk_Legion wikiPageWikiLink Canada.
- Murmansk_Legion wikiPageWikiLink Category:Military_history_of_Finland.
- Murmansk_Legion wikiPageWikiLink Category:Royal_Navy_ad_hoc_formations.
- Murmansk_Legion wikiPageWikiLink Colonel_(United_Kingdom).
- Murmansk_Legion wikiPageWikiLink Finland.
- Murmansk_Legion wikiPageWikiLink Finnish_Army.
- Murmansk_Legion wikiPageWikiLink Finnish_Civil_War.
- Murmansk_Legion wikiPageWikiLink Finnish_Declaration_of_Independence.
- Murmansk_Legion wikiPageWikiLink Finnish_independence.
- Murmansk_Legion wikiPageWikiLink German_Empire.
- Murmansk_Legion wikiPageWikiLink International_Brigades.
- Murmansk_Legion wikiPageWikiLink Karelia.
- Murmansk_Legion wikiPageWikiLink Kirov_Railway.
- Murmansk_Legion wikiPageWikiLink Lenin.
- Murmansk_Legion wikiPageWikiLink Murmansk.
- Murmansk_Legion wikiPageWikiLink Murmansk_Railroad.
- Murmansk_Legion wikiPageWikiLink North_Russia_Intervention.
- Murmansk_Legion wikiPageWikiLink Oskari_Tokoi.
- Murmansk_Legion wikiPageWikiLink Red_Guards_(Finland).
- Murmansk_Legion wikiPageWikiLink Royal_Marines.
- Murmansk_Legion wikiPageWikiLink Royal_Navy.
- Murmansk_Legion wikiPageWikiLink Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic.
- Murmansk_Legion wikiPageWikiLink Soviet_Russia.
- Murmansk_Legion wikiPageWikiLink Soviet_Russia_(unofficial_name_of_state).
- Murmansk_Legion wikiPageWikiLink Spanish_Civil_War.
- Murmansk_Legion wikiPageWikiLink United_Kingdom.
- Murmansk_Legion wikiPageWikiLink United_States.
- Murmansk_Legion wikiPageWikiLink Verner_Lehtimäki.
- Murmansk_Legion wikiPageWikiLink Viena_expedition.
- Murmansk_Legion wikiPageWikiLink Vladimir_Lenin.
- Murmansk_Legion wikiPageWikiLink White_Guard_(Finland).
- Murmansk_Legion wikiPageWikiLink White_Karelia.
- Murmansk_Legion wikiPageWikiLink White_Sea.
- Murmansk_Legion wikiPageWikiLink White_movement.
- Murmansk_Legion wikiPageWikiLink World_War_II.
- Murmansk_Legion wikiPageWikiLink File:C05_sota-arkisto.jpg.
- Murmansk_Legion wikiPageWikiLinkText "Murmansk Legion".
- Murmansk_Legion hasPhotoCollection Murmansk_Legion.
- Murmansk_Legion wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Finland-mil-stub.
- Murmansk_Legion wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:UK-mil-stub.
- Murmansk_Legion subject Category:Military_history_of_Finland.
- Murmansk_Legion subject Category:Royal_Navy_ad_hoc_formations.
- Murmansk_Legion hypernym Navy.
- Murmansk_Legion type Agent.
- Murmansk_Legion type Organisation.
- Murmansk_Legion type Ship.
- Murmansk_Legion type Organization.
- Murmansk_Legion type Agent.
- Murmansk_Legion type SocialPerson.
- Murmansk_Legion type Thing.
- Murmansk_Legion type Q176799.
- Murmansk_Legion type Q43229.
- Murmansk_Legion comment "Murmansk Legion, also known as the Finnish Legion, was a British Royal Navy organized military unit during the 1918–1919 Allied North Russia Intervention. It was composed of Finnish Red Guards who had fled after the Finnish Civil War from the White dominated Northern Finland to Soviet Russia and of some Finns working on the Murmansk Railroad.".
- Murmansk_Legion label "Murmansk Legion".
- Murmansk_Legion sameAs Muurmannin_legioona.
- Murmansk_Legion sameAs Legion_Murmański.
- Murmansk_Legion sameAs m.0zbww3r.
- Murmansk_Legion sameAs Мурманский_легион.
- Murmansk_Legion sameAs Murmanlegionen.
- Murmansk_Legion sameAs Q608562.
- Murmansk_Legion sameAs Q608562.
- Murmansk_Legion wasDerivedFrom Murmansk_Legion?oldid=600208049.
- Murmansk_Legion depiction C05_sota-arkisto.jpg.
- Murmansk_Legion isPrimaryTopicOf Murmansk_Legion.