In Finland the "Academic Karelian Society" was founded in 1922. The society
propagated for a Finnish state from the Baltic Sea all the way to the Ural mountains; a
state, which would unite all fenno-ugric peoples. The first step towards that was the
annexation of Eastern Karelia to Finland; this persistently alarmed the Soviet government.
The society was an expression of nationalist moments in Finland and contributed to
tensions on the Finnish-Russian border.
