>>Паасикиви знаете? Так вот он тогда настаивал, что войну надо продолжать, пока не будет присоедина Восточная Карелия.
In 1936 Paasikivi was appointed minister to Sweden. He was recalled from Stockholm in October 1939 to lead the delegation that unsuccessfully attempted to reach a peace settlement with the U.S.S.R. over that nation's demands for strategically important bits of Finnish territory; he advocated acceding to the Soviets' demands. In March 1940 Paasikivi was the logical choice to negotiate peace with the U.S.S.R. and thus end the Russo-Finnish War that Finland was clearly losing; as chairman of the Finnish–Russian Peace Commission, he signed the treaty whereby Finland ceded to Russia approximately one-tenth of its territory, with a population of almost 500,000. Soon afterward, in March 1940, he was appointed minister to Moscow, but he resigned from this position in May 1941 when it became clear that his government would side with Nazi Germany in the approaching conflict with the Soviet Union.