Operation_Alaska
Operation Alaska
Proposed plan to rescue Finnish refugees
Operation Alaska, Finalaska or New Finland was a proposed plan by some US officials[which?] to take Finnish refugees into Alaska if the Soviet Union would have conquered Finland. There were plans to take Finns into Alaska, both during the Winter War and the Continuation War. New Finland would have been established in Central Alaska around the Tanana River.
The plan was opposed by Alaskans in the Congress, mainly because of the issue of having a large group of people speaking a language that was not understood in the region.[1][2][3][4]