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Overview
There is fluidity in conflict evolution and identifying the landscape over which the events mutate provides additional information on understanding the conflict problem.
The focus is on the assassination of the Russian Governor General in 1904 by Eugen Schauman. Some have seen him as a freedom fighter….others a terrorist…
F.3. Reading (Look at this before doing the tasks). The Tasks and Answer Key/Pointers/Sources are in Theme H in the drop-down menu at the top of this page.
Second floor of the Government Palace (Senate Building) overlooking the Senate Square in Helsinki where Schauman shot Governor General Bobrikov. A plaque commemorates the event. Helsinki City Museum CC BY 4.0 https://www.finna.fi/Record/hkm.868EDCDD-BB4C-4D80-A89B-943020EBA005
Think About:
“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there” – Lewis Carroll
“Assassination is the extreme form of censorship” – George Bernard Shaw
“The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination” – Voltaire
“The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet” – Eric Ambler
“The moment of assassination is the moment when power and the ignorance of power come together, with Death as validator”– Thomas Pynchon
Materials Updates/News:
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Manchester Guardian 18.6.1904. Statement by Bobrikoff (incisive and pertinent given what happened in 1914 and 1941 and then 2022...:
“Of course Finns are not sympathisers of ours. They rejoice over Japanese victories, and pull wry faces at our successes. There is no use denying that it is a difficult time for us, especially with regard to our frontiers. Concessions are necessary, though at the same time inadvisable. Yet the attitude of the Finns towards Russia is correct, and they have freely subscribed to the war funds. The Swedes have of course tried to organise hostile demonstrations, but we have kept them down. The streets of Helsingfors are quiet, but no one knows what is going on in the houses.”
The connection between Finns and the surreptitious activities of would be assassins is not restricted to Schaumann:
Yle. (9.12.2023). Supo declassifies 60-year-old file on JF killer Lee Harvey Oswald.
Oswald visited Finland in 1959….
The problems continue:
Tammikko, T. (2018). The threat of returning foreign fighters: Finnish state responses to the volunteers in the Spanish and Syria-Iraq civil wars. Terrorism and Political Violence 30(5): 844–861.
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