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"DOWN WITH COMMUNISM"1 "LONG L'IVE CZECHOSLOVAKIA" AND "CZECH ... OSLOVAKIA MUST BE FREE"• SOVIET FL~G WAS BURNEQ• 
2g DEMONSTRATIONS CONTINUED DURING DAY AUGUST 22 AND BUILT Up 
MOMENTUM BY NIGHTFALLQ ALMOST 31000 DEMONSTRATORS AND SPECTA~ 
TORS GATHERED NEAR SOVIET EMBASSY. DEMONSTRATORS THREW EGGs 
AND STONES AT POLICE WHO PUSHED CROWD AWAY FROM AREA ~ROUND 
SOVIET EMBASSY· ONE GROUP OF DEMONSTRATORS MARCHED TO PRESIDENT 0 S 
PALACE " AND SHOUTED1 "URHO DO SOMETHING"1 "URHQ IS A FRIEND OF 
COMMUNISM" AND "URHO IS A RUSSIAN STOOGE"• SOME DEMONSTRATORS 
SMASHED WINDOWS OF COMMUNIST NEWSPAPER KANSAN UUTISET1 OTHERS 
BURNED TWO SOVIET FLAGSQ 
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3· DEMONSTRATIONS HAVE ALSO TAKEN PLACE IN FRONT OF SOVIET CON~ 
SULATES IN TURKU AND MAARIANHAM!NA ON ALAND ISLAND• PROTEST MAR 9 
CHES AND MEETINGS WERE HELD IN TAMPERE, JYVASKYLA AND RAUMA~ 

HUNDREDS OF PERSONS HAVE CALLED CZECH EMBASSY TO EXPRESS SyMg 
?ATHY• CZECH AND FINNISH FLAGS FLYING AT HALF·MAsr · ON HELSINKI 
UNIVERSITY STUDENT UNION BUILDING• 
4• DEMONSTRATIONS OF THIS MAGNITUDE WITH THIS MUCH VIOLENCE HAVE NOT TAKEN PLACE FINLAND SINCE COMMUNIST YOUTH FESTIVAL HELD HELQ SINK! IN 1962• POTENTIALLY EXPLOSIVE SITUATION STILL EXISTSQ 
DECON 8/23/69 THOMPSON 
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