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11 unusual facts about Winter War


Combat stress reaction

Earlier, during the Winter War, several Finnish machine gun operators on the Karelian Isthmus theatre became mentally unstable after repelling several unsuccessful Soviet human wave assaults on fortified Finnish positions

Hans Metzger

In the 1980s Metzger published his two-part memories about his activities in Finland during the Winter War and the Continuation War.

Helsinki-Malmi Airport

The Winter War interrupted civil aviation at Malmi, and the Airport was taken over by the Finnish Air Force.

Jouko Halmekoski

In the book he also talks about his father, Hemmi, who was killed in the Winter War.

Kohtalon kirja

The next appearance of the book - and a soldier who again resembles the priest - is in the Winter War - Battle of Kollaa, Christmas Day 1939, to be specific.

Kollaa

Battle of Kollaa, between Finland and the Soviet Union during the Winter War

Martti Häikiö

His doctoral dissertation concerns the British politics on Finland before and during the Winter War and has thereafter published a lot of popular works on modern Finnish history and corporate history, such as Nokia, the inside story (2002).

NR-40

The Winter War revealed a number of deficiencies in Soviet weaponry; among other issues, the Soviet infantry lacked a good combat knife.

Reino Paasilinna

Reino Paasilinna was born on Aunus, a ship on the Arctic Ocean, on the coast of Norway, where the Paasilinna family fled the Winter War.

Ruskeala

Before the Winter War and Continuation War, it was the seat of Ruskeala Municipality of the Viipuri Province in Finland.

William R. Trotter

A research project Trotter started while at Davidson College about the Winter War eventually became the history A Frozen Hell, published in 1991.


6 inch 35 caliber naval gun 1877

The batteries in Härkölä and Tuppura were dismantled prior to Winter War and the guns moved first to Lake Ladoga and later to Archipelago Sea: two guns in Lypertö, three in Bokulla, three in Lökholm and one in Pensar.

Birger Wasenius

At the end of 1939, the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union broke out, and Wasenius was killed early 1940 while fighting for the Finnish army on the islands of Lake Ladoga.

FinnWars

Gameplay focuses on winter warfare maps using Finnish and Russian weapons and equipment, in re-creations of historical battles of Winter War and Continuation War that Finland was involved in.

Kainuu Brigade

It also holds up the traditions of the men that fought at Suomussalmi, Raate Road and Kuhmo during the Winter War as well as the Rukajärvi-directions 14.

Leonid Khrushchev

He saw action in the Winter War against Finland, in which he made over 30 combat missions and bombed the Mannerheim Line; after the war was finished on 13 March 1940, he volunteered to stay at the front.

Salla

Soviet troops invaded Finland at Salla during the Winter War but were stopped by the Finnish Army (see Battle of Salla).

Solovyovo, Priozersky District, Leningrad Oblast

Taipale at the Mannerheim Line, then approximately 20 kilometers from the Soviet border, became known for heavy fighting during the Winter War, and was held by the Finnish forces until the end of that war, when all of the Karelian Isthmus was ceded to the Soviet Union and had to be evacuated in haste.

Usadishche, Vyborgsky District, Leningrad Oblast

Until the Winter War and Continuation War, it had been part of the Vahviala municipality of the Viipuri Province of Finland, partially lost to the Soviet Union in 1944.