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On November 30, 1939, the Soviet Union's Red Army invaded the young nation-state of Finland, in the full expectation of routing the small, ill-equipped Finnish army and annexing the former Russian territory by the end of the year.
war ended. Nor did the Soviet government exclude the threat of a pro-German coup d’etat in Finland, which could complicate the general situation even further. Acting on the instructions of the Soviet government, Yartsev proposed the conclusion of a military agreement which would come into force only in the case of direct aggression by the ...
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In 1939–40, the fierce Winter War was waged between the Soviet Union and Finland. This article analyses Stalin's two main decisions, to attack and to make peace, and the intelligence behind those decisions. Already at the outbreak, it was obvious that the attack was based on a serious misjudgement.
T he Soviet Union’s war with Finland, commonly referred to as the Winter War, began on 30 November 1939 with an unprovoked attack by the U.S.S.R. and ended on 12 March 1940 with a negotiated peace that vastly favored the Soviet Union.
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The Winter War[F 6] was a war between the Soviet Union and Finland. It began with a Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939, three months after the outbreak of World War II, and ended three and a half months later with the Moscow Peace Treaty on 13 March 1940.
