Here’s What You Need to Remember: Though the Finns were eventually worn down so much that they ceded the borderlands to Stalin, Finland maintained its independence, and also gained the admiration of a ...
The Soviet soldier never saw him. Neither did the one after that, or the next, or the hundreds who followed. Simo Häyhä ...
In the war movie epic, The Winter War, brothers Martti and Paavo Hakala are called up as reservists when in October 1939, the Soviet Union lays claims to parts of Finland’s territory and threatens an ...
Eighty-five years after Helsinki welcomed Nazi troops to the country, the Finnish ruling class is once again attempting to ...
** When you buy products through the links on our site, we may earn a commission that supports NRA's mission to protect, preserve and defend the Second Amendment. ** "The strength of the Finnish ...
Finland’s frontier, as I subsequently found, is only twenty miles from Leningrad at its southernmost tip on the Gulf of Finland. The Muscovite spokesmen shouted through the microphone that the Finns ...
In early World War II, on Nov. 30, 1939, a Soviet-Russian army invaded Finland in a surprise massive attack. The Finns were eventually outnumbered nearly 3 to 1. The population of the Soviet Union in ...