Tensions escalated into full-scale war by 1937. This map shows the situation in ... bitterly cold environment of a Finnish winter. Finland fought the Soviets to a standstill, losing about 10 ...

In November 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Finland in the Winter War. After initially suffering ... defenses on the peninsula itself. The German maps proved to have an over-optimistic assessment ...

In the freezing winter of 1939 ... ground in one of World War II’s most remarkable David vs. Goliath conflicts. How did a small nation withstand the might of the USSR, and what were the ...

Editor’s note: In December 2015, two Army intelligence officers set out on a trip to explore the mysterious remnants of the Soviet Union in the Baltic States ... with geospatial intelligence courtesy ...

It is a day to remember the immense losses that Russians and other peoples under Soviet ... winter has hit us, cold and hunger and typhus.” Both sides were executing prisoners of war, so the ...

They follow this with an account of the development of Finland and its armed forces in the interwar period and another on the coming of war ... Soviet Union in the aftermath of the Nazi-Soviet Pact.

On February 23, 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin attended the final day of the Winter Olympics in Sochi ... After the German invasion of the Soviet Union in the middle of World War II, the ...

Yet my father was the victim of one of the war’s greatest ... made it through the winter. They were still alive when, in the summer of 1941, Hitler invaded the Soviet Union and the Molotov ...

Early on 30 November 1939, the USSR launched a massive attack against Finland, the start of the 105-day Winter War. The war was preceded by an incident known as the shelling of Mainila. The Soviet ...