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Finnish Government
|combatant2=Lapua movement
|commander1=
Aarne Sihvo
|commander2=Artturi Vuorimaa,
Vihtori Kosola,
K. J. Wallenius
|strength1=unknown at the time
|strength2=500 in Mäntsälä, 5,000 in the whole country
|casualties1=none
|casualties2=1 suicide, 52 imprisoned
|}}
The
Mäntsälä rebellion (
Finnish:
Mäntsälän kapina) was a failed
coup attempt by the
Lapua Movement to overthrow the Finnish government.
On
February 27,
1932 some 400 armed members of the
Suojeluskunta militia interrupted a meeting of
Social Democrats in
Mäntsälä with small arms fire. In the next few days, leading members of the
Lapua Movement (
Lapuanliike) and hundreds of armed members of Suojeluskunta arrived at Mäntsälä. The former Chief of General Staff, Major General
Wallenius also joined the leadership of the rebellion. The men refused to disperse and demanded the cabinet's resignation and a change in political course.
Two days later the cabinet ordered the leaders of the Lapua movement arrested using the
Protection of the Republic Act which the movement itself had urged for a year before. Army units began preparing as the Chief of Defence, Lieutenant General
Aarne Sihvo was prepared to use force to end the rebellion. Orders were given to reinforce the defence of
Helsinki with tanks and artillery in case the situation would escalate. As the tensions grew, so did the consumption of alcohol among the instigators.
On
March 2 President
Svinhufvud gave a radio speech in which he urged the militiamen to return home and promised that only the leaders would be punished. The men dispersed and the leaders were arrested a few days later. During the spring the Lapua movement was disbanded.
The Mäntsälä rebellion can be considered the last major incident caused by the radical right-wing activism in Finland after the
Civil War. In the coming years the economic situation in
Finland would improve and the radical movements would lose support.
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