Winter War
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The Winter War was a war between the Soviet Union and Finland. It began with a Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939, three months after the outbreak of World War II, and ended three and a ha
A Finnish Maxim M/09-21 machine gun crew during the Winter War
The Soviet–Finnish Non-Aggression Pact was signed by Aarno Yrjö-Koskinen and Maxim Litvinov in Moscow 1932.
Finnish soldiers gather breakfast from a field kitchen during "additional refresher training" at the Karelian Isthmus, on 10 October 1939.
29 November 1939, foreign journalists at Mainila, where a border incident between Finland and the Soviet Union escalated into the Winter War
Finnish Democratic Republic
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The Finnish Democratic Republic, also known as the Terijoki Government, was a short-lived puppet state of the Soviet Union in occupied Finnish territory from December 1939 to March 1940.
Winter War
…refused, the Soviets invaded. Most sources conclude that the Soviet Union had intended to conquer all of Finland, and cite the establishment of the puppet Finnish Communist government and the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact's secret protocols as evidence of this, while other sources argue against the idea of a full Soviet conquest. Finland…
Vyacheslav Molotov signing an agreement between the USSR and the Finnish Democratic Republic in front of Joseph Stalin. Otto Wille Kuusinen, the prime minister and head of government, on the right side of the picture.