How Finland survived Stalin: from winter war to cold war
by Kimmon Rentola
the first winter of World War II, Stalin directed his forces to launch an invasion of Finland, in what would become known as the ‘Winter War’. Despite Stalin’s forces vastly outnumbering their Finnish counterparts, the Soviet forces suffered heavy losses and a full-scale invasion was averted. In this work on Soviet-Finnish relations from the Winter War through to the 1950s, we discover just how one small nation stood out against the military might of the Soviet Union –