The Story of How One Tiny Country Held Back the Russia's Mighty Military
Warfare History Network
History, Europe
Following the fall of Poland, an amazed world watched tiny Finland fight off twenty-six Soviet divisions.
The hugely cynical German-Soviet nonaggression pact, concluded in August 1939, assigned the Baltic region of eastern Europe to the exclusive sphere of influence of Communist Russia. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin immediately embarked on a program to annex traditionally Russian-dominated territory in the area, including Estonia, Latvia... Читать дальше...