Warfare Finland in the winter of 1939

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After the Soviet Union invaded Finland in the winter of 1939 expecting an easy victory in 2 weeks, the Finns held them off for 105 days

After the Soviet Union invaded Finland in the winter of 1939 expecting an easy victory in 2 weeks, the Finns held them off for 105 days in temperatures that fell below minus 40 degrees — including a single farmer-turned-sniper named Simo Häyhä who ki

Stalin had expected to reach Helsinki in two weeks. He never reached it. The specific mechanism by which a country of approximately 3.7 million people successfully defended itself for 105 days against an invasion by a country of approximately 170 million people is, on the accumulated 86 years of...

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The Winter War… history repeats itself often, under different contexts…