Patriotic People's Movement was a Finnish nationalist and anti-communist political party. IKL was the successor of the previously banned Lapua Movement. It existed from 1932 to 1944 and had an ideology similar to its predecessor, except that IKL participated in elections with limited success.
Finnicization is the changing of one's personal names from other languages into Finnish. During the era of National Romanticism in Finland, many people, especially Fennomans, finnicized their previously Swedish family names.
Timo Pekka Olavi Siitoin was a Finnish neo-Nazi, occultist and a Satanist.
Theistic Satanism, otherwise referred to as traditional Satanism, religious Satanism, or spiritual Satanism, is an umbrella term for religious groups that consider Satan, the Devil, to objectively exist as a deity, supernatural entity, or spiritual being worthy of worship or reverence, whom individuals may believe in, contact, and convene with, in contrast to the atheistic archetype, metaphor, or symbol found in LaVeyan Satanism.
Fingerpori is a Finnish comic strip written and drawn by Pertti Jarla. It started in Helsingin Sanomat in February 2007, and is comprehensively distributed in major provincial newspapers. Literally, fingerpori is a thimble, but fingerporillinen is a proverbial small amount of alcohol, and Pori is a Finnish town.
I. K. Inha was a Finnish photographer, author, translator, and journalist. Inha is considered one of the grandmasters of Finnish photography. Sometimes he is referred to as "the national photographer" of Finland. He is especially known for his documentation of Finnish folk tradition, old habits and customs, and landscapes. In addition to his documentary work he was a significant portrayer of modernisation in the early 20th century.
The Patriotic People's Movement was a political organization in Finland. It regarded itself as the successor of the original Patriotic People's Movement that had operated in the interwar years until the end of the Continuation War. After a few active years and moderate success fighting for the legacy of the bankrupt populist Finnish Rural Party, IKL failed to be admitted to the party register and its activities died out after 1998.
Jukka Mallinen is a Finnish author, poet, translator and interpreter.
In Finland, the far right was strongest in 1920–1940 when the Academic Karelia Society, Lapua Movement, Patriotic People's Movement (IKL) and Vientirauha operated in the country and had hundreds of thousands of members. In addition to these dominant far-right and fascist organizations, smaller Nazi parties operated as well.
The National Socialist Union of Finland, later the Finnish-Socialist Party was a Finnish Nazi political party active in the 1930s, whose driving force and ideologue was Professor Yrjö Ruutu. With an ideology based on Ruutu's theories, the party came to reject orthodox German Nazism.
The Finnish People's Organisation 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, Hakkorset and Hakaristi. 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!"
The Kursiivi printing house arson took place in the early morning of 26 November 1977, destroying the printing house Kursiivi in Helsinki in Lauttasaari. Kursiivi printed the newspaper of the Taistoist wing of the Communist Party of Finland Tiedonantaja, the Swedish language communist newspaper Arbetartidningen Enhet and Finnish People's Democratic League youth wing's Pioneeritoveri.
The Party of Finnish Labor was a Finnish far-right party operating in the 1930s and 1940s, led by engineer Niilo Rauvala. The party's motto was: "Finland into a great and rich nation state". In 1940s, the organization was known as the New Finnish Party. The party was dissolved on 18 January 1945 as contrary to Article 21 of the Moscow Armistice, which forbade fascist parties.
Boris V. Popper was a White Russian émigré living in Finland who was one of the so-called Leino prisoners. He later used the names Boris Berin-Bey and Batu Berin-Bey.
Randall Gair Doherty was the son of occultist Aleisteir Crowley. Throughout his life Doherty used several pseudonyms and titles including Aleister Macalpine and Count Charles Edward D'Arquires, and was called Aleister Atatürk by his father.
The Tattarisuo case, a Finnish criminal investigation from the 1930s, took place in the Tattarisuo area, then part of the rural outskirts of Helsinki. The investigation, which spanned about a year, eventually revealed that a small local group engaged in black magic was responsible for the crime. Some members of the group had stolen human remains from the Malmi Cemetery and used them in rituals conducted at a spring in Tattarisuo and its surrounding area. The case remains one of the most infamous in Finnish criminal history due to its connection with grave robbery and occult rituals.
Finland – Fatherland was an extreme right party led by Väinö Kuisma. The organization was founded in early 1990s under the name Aryan Germanic Brotherhood (AGV) and changed its name to Patriotic Right (IO) in 1993. In 2002–2003 it was known as Finland Rises Up – Nation Unites. IO/AGV was also a member of the National Union Council, an umbrella organization of neo-Nazi groups, led by Pekka Siitoin and Kuisma, both notorious neo-Nazi occultists.
Turku Society for the Spiritual Sciences was an occult group founded by Pekka Siitoin on September 1, 1971.
The Patriotic Popular Front (IKR) was a neo-Nazi party founded in Finland by Pekka Siitoin.
The National Union Council was an Umbrella organization of neo-Nazi groups founded in 1994 by Väinö Kuisma and Pekka Siitoin in Vehmaa, Finland. National Union Council was the subject of a documentary called Sieg Heil Suomi.
