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Finland ceded 11% of its territory - including the major city Vyborg - to the Soviet Union, but prevented the Soviets from annexing Finland into the USSR. Of all the continental European nations combating, as part of World War II, Helsinki and Moscow were the only capitals not occupied.
- Embassy of Russia, Helsinki
The Winter War was a war between the Soviet Union and Finland. It began with a Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939, three months after the outbreak of World War II, and ended three and a half months later with the Moscow Peace Treaty on 13 March 1940.
- 30 November 1939 – 13 March 1940, (3 months, 1 week and 6 days)
- Moscow Peace Treaty
- Eastern Finland
Russo-Finnish War (November 30, 1939–March 12, 1940), also called the Winter War, war waged by the Soviet Union against Finland at the beginning of World War II, following the conclusion of the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact (August 23, 1939). Learn more about the Russo-Finnish War in this article.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Under the treaty, which was signed on 6 April 1948, the Soviets sought to deter Western or Allied Powers from attacking the Soviet Union through Finnish territory, and the Finns sought to increase Finland's political independence from the Soviet Union. It thus ensured Finland's survival as a liberal democracy in close proximity to ...
- 20 January 1992
- Bilateral treaty
- 6 April 1948
4 mar 2022 · Retropolis. How Finland held off the Russians and won a moral victory — with lessons for Ukraine. By Gordon F. Sander. March 4, 2022 at 7:00 a.m. EST. War between Finland and Soviet Russia...
12 mag 2022 · - Finland's pleas to Western allies for military assistance went unanswered, resulting in Helsinki allying itself with Nazi Germany in a second war against the Soviet Union between 1941 and...
FINLAND AND THE USSR — 1945-1961. By John H. Wuorinen. The author has been a member of the History Department of Columbia. University since 1924, serving as its Chairman from 1948-1957. Long a spe cialist in Finnish affairs, his books include FINLAND AND WORLD WAR II. and NATIONALISM IN MODERN FINLAND.
