Here’s What You Need to Remember: Though the Finns were eventually worn down so much that they ceded the borderlands to Stalin, Finland maintained its independence, and also gained the admiration of a ...

In the war movie epic, The Winter War, brothers Martti and Paavo Hakala are called up as reservists when in October 1939, the Soviet Union lays claims to parts of Finland’s territory and threatens an ...

** When you buy products through the links on our site, we may earn a commission that supports NRA's mission to protect, preserve and defend the Second Amendment. ** "The strength of the Finnish ...

The war broke out within a few hours of our return to the Finnish capital, in a rain of bombs upon the city and an attack upon the front which we had just visited. The Russians let the guns go off ...

In early World War II, on Nov. 30, 1939, a Soviet-Russian army invaded Finland in a surprise massive attack. The Finns were eventually outnumbered nearly 3 to 1. The population of the Soviet Union in ...

The complicated relationship between Russia and Finland is yet again in a state of decline. Finland formally joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the world's largest military alliance, on ...