Talvisota

Finnish Winter War ended 13th of March 1940. So today is its memorial day. The war had begun 105 days before in the end of November 1939 when Soviet-Russia attacked Finland. But this little country prevailed against all odds. There were so many Russians and so few Finns. They had so overwhelming amount of guns, tanks, airplanes... Finns had no battle worthy tanks at all against more than 1000 (one thousand). And the weather was so cold. But luckily Finland came out of the turmoil pretty much alive.

Before the war in August 1939 Nazi-Germany and Communist-Russia had made a pact and divided Eastern-Europe into spheres of influence according to which Finland belonged to Russia. And only after a few weeks later - when this Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact had been signed - Germany invaded Poland. And only after a few weeks of this Russia invaded Poland, too. Thus not only Nazi-Germany but the Communist-Russia was part of why the hell of a war broke loose...

But after some horrendously tumultous years around the Globe the war ended. And luckily Finland did keep its independence.

Juha H.