Finnish president <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._K._Paasikivi" id="mwARs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="J. K. Paasikivi">J. K. Paasikivi</a> becomes the first Western head of state to be awarded the highest honor of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" id="mwARw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Lenin" id="mwAR0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Order of Lenin">Order of Lenin</a>.<sup about="#mwt97" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-17"}}' id="cite_ref-17" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./September_18#cite_note-17" id="mwAR4" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 17;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAR8">[17]</span></a></sup><sup about="#mwt101" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-18"}}' id="cite_ref-18" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./September_18#cite_note-18" id="mwASA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 18;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwASE">[18]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-17"><cite about="#mwt94" class="citation web cs1" id="mwCGI"><a class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/3001358" id="mwCGM" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"John H. Hodgson: <i id="mwCGQ">The Paasikivi Line</i>, JSTOR"</a>. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./JSTOR_(identifier)" id="mwCGU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a><span id="mwCGY" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/3001358" id="mwCGc" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">3001358</a>.</cite><span about="#mwt94" class="Z3988" id="mwCGg" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.btitle=John+H.+Hodgson%3A+The+Paasikivi+Line%2C+JSTOR.&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F3001358%23id-name%3DJSTOR&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F3001358&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASeptember+18"></span></span>