The complicated relationship between Russia and Finland is yet again in a state of decline. Finland formally joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the world's largest military alliance, on ...

Soviet Bombs fall on Helsinki. This is 1939. Best-selling Finnish novelist Mika Waltari (“The Egyptian”) fights with his typewriter to create true lies for the Finnish Propaganda Unit to deceive the ...

Exactly 85 years ago — on Nov. 30, 1939 — the USSR’s aggression against Finland began. This “Winter War,” as it came to be known, was part of the Soviet leadership’s grand plan to divide Eastern ...

** When you buy products through the links on our site, we may earn a commission that supports NRA's mission to protect, preserve and defend the Second Amendment. ** "The strength of the Finnish ...

In early World War II, on Nov. 30, 1939, a Soviet-Russian army invaded Finland in a surprise massive attack. The Finns were eventually outnumbered nearly 3 to 1. The population of the Soviet Union in ...

Joseph Stalin's 1939 invasion of Finland has been compared to Vladimir Putin's aggression in Ukraine amid questions over whether a deal that followed the Winter War could be a blueprint for a conflict ...

The French author travelled to Finland’s icy forests to get closer to his subject – sniper Simo Häyhä and the Finnish soldiers whose bravery helped to change the course of the Second World War. The ...