![]() ![]() This time the Finns went on the offensive. The second and longest of these wars is known as the Continuation War, which began in June 1941, about a year and a half after the end of the Winter War. It was also only the first of three wars the Finns would fight between 19. In exchange for peace, Stalin forced the Finns to concede border territories that the Russians had long coveted, including the Karelian isthmus, from which thousands of civilians fled before the Soviet takeover. The Finns fought the Russians to a standstill, killing over 200,000 and wounding many more, and forced Stalin to the bargaining table. ![]() ![]() That war, the Talvisota or Winter War, lasted just over one hundred days. A little backgroundĮighty years ago tomorrow, Soviet Russia invaded Finland, an unprovoked act of aggression meant to subjugate Russia’s northwestern neighbor as it already had other smaller, weaker countries like Estonia. The 80th anniversary of the beginning of the Winter War finally got me to finish this review. Since then I’ve watched it five or six times. Back in the spring I learned that Unknown Soldiers, a new film version of Väino Linna’s great war novel, which I reviewed here last year, had just become available in the US. This is a review I’ve been trying to write since March. ![]()
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