Stormers (

Finnish Finnish may refer to: * Something or someone from, or related to Finland * Culture of Finland * Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland * Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people * Finnish cuisine See also ...

: ) was a Finnish far-right party operating in the early 1930s, led by architect Vietti Nykänen. The party was founded in March 1933, when Nykänen, a member of the

National Socialist Union of Finland The National Socialist Union of Finland ( Finnish: , SKSL), 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' ...

(SKSL), resigned and founded his own party with his supporters. The Stormers' key demands included lower rents, an increase in banknote stocks and work for the unemployed. The far-left

Communist Party of Finland The Communist Party of Finland ( fi, Suomen Kommunistinen Puolue, SKP; sv, Finlands Kommunistiska Parti) was a communist political party in Finland. The SKP was a section of Comintern and illegal in Finland until 1944. The SKP was banned ...

considered the rhetoric of the Stormers to be more dangerous than the SKSL. Of the other far-right parties, attacked the Patriotic People's Movement's desire to ban social democratic organizations. According to the Stormers, the people should not be divided by such measures, even though the left had to be fought. The Stormers co-operated with the

Party of Finnish Labor The Party of Finnish Labor (Finnish: , STP) 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 a ...

(which represented the same position). The organ of the Stormers was (''Attack''), which appeared from January to April 1933 and was edited by M. Tauriala. 's propaganda was aggressive. Already the second issue of the magazine was prosecuted under the Freedom of the Press Act and its copies were confiscated. The reason for the measure was 's attacks on the state alcohol monopoly and the National Equity Bank. ''Isku'' also attacked Helsingin Sanomat for covering the attacks on Jews in Germany, claiming Sanomat had "chosen the side of the Jew" in the fight between Jews and Gentiles.Jari Hanski: Juutalaisvastaisuus suomalaisissa aikakauslehdissä ja kirjallisuudessa 1918–1944. Kirja kerrallaan, Helsinki 2006. In the autumn of 1933, Chairman Nykänen got into disputes with his party colleagues. The opposition accused Nykänen of the autocracy he had shown during the election campaign. Nykänen had visited the left-wing organization without consulting the party board. As a result, disappointed supporters left the party under the leadership of merchant Lennart Mäkelä. The split operated for a while under the name (Stormtroopers), until Mäkelä founded the Finnish Workers' and Peasants' Alliance in 1934. Vietti Nykänen joined the Patriotic People's Movement in 1934.

Election results

Parliament of Finland

References

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