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Winter War
(redirected from Invasion of Finland)

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Winter War
n
(Historical Terms) the war of the winter of 1939-40 between Finland and the USSR after which the Finns surrendered the Karelian Isthmus to the USSR


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In an interview with the conservative German daily Die Welt, he said even more striking were the parallels between Putin's strategy against Georgia and Stalin's invasion of Finland in 1939, describing both as "the undermining of the sovereignty of a small, democratic neighbouring state through the use of violence".
At the behest of many of the Latin American members of the League of Nations, after the military invasion of Finland was launched the League actually expelled the USSR from membership.
Following the Soviet invasion of Finland in 1939, Finnish militiamen--some of them mounted on skis--fought a heroic and successful "Winter War" to evict the Red Army.
 
 
 
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