Exactly 85 years ago — on Nov. 30, 1939 — the USSR’s aggression against Finland began. This “Winter War,” as it came to be known, was part of the Soviet leadership’s grand plan to divide Eastern ...

Combat has changed in the decades since Finland's Winter War with Russia, but one key lesson still shapes how it thinks about fighting in the Arctic. Dense forests and deep snow force armies onto ...

In December 1939, the Soviet Union launched a large-scale invasion of Finland, expecting a rapid victory that instead turned into a difficult winter campaign. Finnish resistance, harsh weather, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Soviet Bombs fall on Helsinki. This is 1939. Best-selling Finnish novelist Mika Waltari (“The Egyptian”) fights with his ...

Aatami Korpi, the hero of the upcoming film “Sisu: Road to Revenge,” fights against both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union—mirroring Finland’s complicated World War II history. Following the ...

In late 1939, the Soviet Union – a country with more than 170 million people and the world’s biggest army – went to war with Finland, a country with a population of less than four million and an ...

Amazon Prime viewers are in luck as an acclaimed war film is available to stream on the platform. The Winter War is a 1989 Finnish war film directed by Pekka Parikka and based on the 1984 novel ...