Some days ago it was 70 years ago since the Winter war. Since the western front only had a low-running war, the press followed the Finnish-Soviet war closely. The terms sisu and a Molotov cocktail became becouse of that internationally known.

The Winter War was 30 November 1939 – 13 March 1940 a Finnish-Soviet war. The conflict was part of the second world war. The war ended in Moscow’s peace agreement which among other things, Finland had to give 13 percent of land territory and the second largest city: Viipuri to the Soviet Union.

The war is known for: 
- Very hard winter conditions - the winter 1939-1940 was the coldest of the century.
- The Red armys enormous losses.
- the Finns mottitaktiikasta and the “spirit of the Winter War.”

The Soviet forces had three times as many soldiers as the Finns, 30 times as many aircraft, and a hundred times as many tanks. Finland was able to resist the Soviet invasion for far longer than the Soviets expected.

We fighted for our freedom.
The price was high but nobody regrets fighting back.

Sadly this was not the last we had with Sovjet…