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IN THE NORWEGIAN CAPITAL'S largest cemetery, there stands a monument to Soviet soldiers with three words on the pedestal, "Norge takker dere" - "Norway thanks you." These are simple words but they express the deep feelings that the Norwegians had after the Soviet army, in October 1944, drove the invaders not only out of the Soviet Union's own Arctic areas and Kola Peninsula but also out of Eastern Finnmark, a Norwegian province that in those days bordered the Soviet Union and today borders Russia.
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