title: The Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic – A Replica of Soviet Karelia made at Kremlin
abstract: Among the diverse strategies and techniques used to expand the socialist revolution, the Bolshevists resorted to the creation, at the borders of the neighbouring states, of offensive bases for the Red Army. In this context, one of the Bolshevists’ main targets was the Scandinavian Peninsula, Finland being exactly in front of the “revolutionary torrent”. In 1921, at the border with Finland, on Soviet territory, the Bolshevists created the Karelian Commune, later turned into a Karelian Autonomous 
journal: Analele Universităţii Dunărea de Jos din Galaţi Fascicula XIX Istorie