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Tuesday, September 2, 2003
The Winter War of 1939.
No one really cares about the Winter War anymore. It's more forgotten than the Korean war I think.
Basically in 1938/39 the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany signed a Non-Agression pact that gave the USSR rights to the Baltic states [Lithuania, parts of Finland, etc] along with the eastern parts of Poland.
With the assurance that Germany would not attack for now, they looked northward to Finland to take some pieces of it. The USSR declared war on Finland and the Winter War began.
The Finnish were stalwart- they defended valiantly, sometimes pushing the Russians back. But Russia had sheer manpower- hundreds of thousands more than Finland could ever muster. With heavy losses on both sides, Finland agreed to give 1/10th of it's territory over the Russia.
That is the one key reason Finland joined the Axis side. They wanted what they had lost in the Winter War back- to even the score.
Those that do not know this, the Germans had annexed Norway. Intially, for Operation Barbarossa, they asked for the right to march troops through Finland so that they could capture Murmansk. Finland agreed, and a short while later actually declared war on the Russians. The only thing they did, however, was take their pre-Winter War borders back. They did not make any attempts to charge further into Russia, and did not help in the siege on Leningrad.
When the Germans began to get pushed back, Russia pressured Finland to join the Allies. So, to avoid another war, Finland did.
That my friends is the Winter War- it's effects on Finland and the Eastern Front.
Finland was one of the only nations that was invaded in World War 2 that retained its independance and was never occupied.
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