This episode explains Finland’s “motti” tactic in January 1940—encircling Soviet units into isolated pockets that slowly ...

What the defeat of the Lapua Movement in the 1940s can teach the US today.

Americans like to cheer for the underdog. But when little Finland was invaded by the mighty Soviet Union in December 1939, folks in Southeast Minnesota became more than cheerleaders. This faraway war, ...

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 ...

In 1940, following its defeat in the so-called Winter War with the Soviet Union, Finland was forced to cede its eastern province of Karelia to Moscow, and the region's Finnish population was summarily ...