the year one thousand nine hundred and thirty-nine. Soviet leader Joseph
Stalin gives the order for the army to expand into Eastern Europe. The argument was the
he is worried about a possible attack by the Germans. Stalin demanded that
the drawing of Finland's border with Russia, a distance of sixteen miles. Along the isthmus
Karian to establish a buffer zone around the city of Leningrad. He also wanted to hand over
Finns several islands in the Gulf of Finland. And to rent the lands
to the Soviets the Hanko Peninsula to build a naval base. But the moment is
these events remind you of something? Yes, it is Putin's same arguments that invoke
to launch a military war on Ukraine. How similar today is
yesterday? More than eighty years ago, ice mixed with fire. And crawled more
Half a million Russian soldiers were equipped with what the armies had in that period
weapons, tanks and planes. On a country that has a primitive army. Who used
of his soldiers for weapons like scrap. Here we must not wait for the outbreak of war. But
, we await the announcement of the defeat of that small country in a few hours. But what
event that was the opposite. Winter war. Finland was a young country with
unstable economy. It suffered from the ravages of the civil war after its independence from the
Russia in the year one thousand nine hundred and seventeen. So Stalin saw her
it's an easy catch. He was surprised when Finland refused his request to annex part of its territory to the
Soviets. After days of warnings and threats, the
Soviet Red's advance into Finnish territory. In a severely
cold. So much so that whoever reveals his hands freezes and hardens during
minutes. The Finns did not show fear of the Russian army, but fortified
behind a network of trenches, concrete bunkers, and field fortifications.
the repeated Soviet tank attacks. Elsewhere on the
border, and the Finnish ski forces took advantage of the rugged nature of the
the hit-and-run attacks on isolated Soviet units. On tactics
frigid winter's guerrilla war has become famous . These operations were led by the
Marshal and one Finnish sniper. He worked as a farmer named Simuhaeha.
. He alone managed to defeat the Russians morally, after killing more than one
Five hundred soldiers of them. One of the famous battles that took place at the time was
It is the battle that is called the Koman Battle of the Sausage. This battle began with the
when the Soviet army launched an attack on a village. They drove the Finnish army out of the
to prepare a creamy sausage soup. Instead of pursuing and eliminating them
fire of the Soviet soldiers in front of the aroma of soup prepared by the Finns
And they started eating. Finnish soldiers took advantage of this opportunity.
they raided the Russian army and inflicted a crushing defeat on it. This
the battle throughout Europe. And it became an example in the evidence of the
weakness of the Russian army. During just three months of fighting in Finland.
army, in which the Finnish army dazzled the world after it had shown fierce resistance? He was killed in
battle of about three hundred thousand Russian soldiers. In return for sixty-five thousand
Finn and on the twelfth of March in the year one thousand nine hundred and forty
The Moscow Peace Treaty was signed. This treaty forced Finland to
cede eleven percent of its territory to the Soviets. However, it is the
preserve its independence and inflict a heavy defeat on the Russians and their
strong army began. Will Ukraine benefit from Finland's experience and that the winter will
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