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The Winter War (1939-40)
The ‘Winter War’ of 1939-1940 or the Russo-Finnish War was fought between the Soviet Union and Finland. The Soviet Union ...
The trial balloons fell flat. Moscow said nothing; her terms were still the 1940 frontiers established by the Russo-Finnish War, plus a base at Hango. Berlin said nothing, and the estimated 80,000 ...
November 11: World War I ends. The army mobilization call ... On January 19, the deportees are met at the Russo-Finnish border by Russian representatives, and received warmly at a mass meeting ...
Nations have often done this by staging a real or simulated attack on their own side and saying the enemy did it, as a pretext for going to war. The term was first used in the 16th Century to ...
November 11: World War I ends. The army mobilization call ... On January 19, the deportees are met at the Russo-Finnish border by Russian representatives, and received warmly at a mass meeting ...