Weapons Cache Case
1944 plans to resist a potential Soviet occupation of Finland / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Weapons Cache Case (Finnish: Asekätkentä, Swedish: Vapengömmoaffären) was a Finnish military plan to continue battle after the ceasefire in 1944, if needed. It concerned a secret and officially unsanctioned military operation following the end of combat on the Soviet–Finnish theater of WWII known as the Continuation War, where a large amount of Finnish Army weapons and equipment was hidden in caches scattered around the country. Despite its non-political nature, the operation took on a right-wing and clearly anti-communist tone through those who participated in the plan.[1]
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Ultimately, 1,488 people were convicted for the operation, receiving prison sentences totaling nearly 400 years.[2]