How it avoided Soviet "reparation" by listing itself as a red-cross provider.
A simple act of a pen.
Wonder how Tikka made it back from the gulag archipelago?
"Tikka (Tikkakoski) did not avoid the Soviet reparations; rather, the Soviet Union seized the company outright in 1947 as part of the Paris Peace Treaties, which required the transfer of all German-owned property in Finland to the Allies"
The Sewing Machine Buyout: In 1957, a group of Finnish businessmen negotiated to buy the company back from the Soviets. In a stroke of economic irony, they paid for the company by supplying the Soviet Union with the sewing machines the factory had been producing"
Can thank enthusiastic Finish housewives for Tikka manufacturing accurate cut barrels?
Likely the Russian workforce didn't have the skill for the sewing machines. It wasn’t CNC back then. It was skilled. They simply molested the brand for a while.
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