Talk:Lotta Svärd

I just made a correction about the AA unit, just to be fully accurate. In practice, many of Lottas unofficially had pistols etc. for self-protection, officially they were always unarmed,expect for this AA battery.

Language regarding the disbanding of Lotta Svard
In the lead section, it is stated that;

"The organisation was suppressed by the government after the war".

However, later in the article, it is said that;

"When the Continuation War ended, the Soviet Union demanded that all organisations it considered paramilitary, fascist or semi-fascist be banned. Lotta Svärd was one of the groups which was disbanded... However, a new organisation called Suomen Naisten Huoltosäätiö (Support Foundation of Finnish Women) was started which took over much of the old property".

Perhaps I don't know the whole story, but disbanding the Lotta Svard then immediately reforming it as a civilian version doesn't sound like suppressing it.

Astor Thrope (talk) 00:35, 3 September 2016 (UTC)

An old comment, yet still worth addressing. After war the victor (Soviet union) set 'valvontakomissio' (https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liittoutuneiden_valvontakomissio, sorry only in Finnish) (Translates roughly to "supervision commission", which job it was to make sure the terms of the peace treaty were followed. Under the political pressure by this commission organisations supporting Finnish army or harboring anti soviet sentiments were outlawed as facists. Lotta Svard was one of these. 64.210.21.210 (talk) 11:38, 8 August 2018 (UTC)