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The Academic Karelia Society (AKS) ''(Akateeminen Karjala-Seura)'' was a Finnish Elitist Nationalist organization aiming at the growth and improvement of newly independent Finland , founded by academics and students of the University Of Finland in 1922 . Its members retained influential positions in the academic life of the era. The Karelia Society was suppressed in 1944 , in the aftermath of the Continuation War , that to a great extent had been planned and fought in accordance with AKS' agenda.

The Karelia Society's program was centered around their main demand: the acquisition of East Karelia from Soviet Russia .

AKS also organized aid to Finnic minorities in Soviet Russia and refugees from there. Domestically it was an emphatic proponent for a strengthened army and for strict restrictions against Socialists .

In the 1930s , the AKS was an ally of the Ultra-right Patriotic People's Movement party. AKS also maintained close ties with a militant Secret Society called Vihan Veljet . Some authors claim that Vihan Veljet was actually a group inside the AKS, not a separate organization, but there is not much evidence in either way. The archives of AKS were hidden or destroyed in 1944.