Nightmare for Stalin's Army: A Finnish Rapid Reaction Force.
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Big country attacks small neighbor because he doesn't submit voluntarily. This is what happened to Finland in 1939. The expected quick victory of Stalin's Soviet Union did not materialize. A lesson for today.
Ein a small country is threatened by its overpowering neighbor – and then attacked. The international community is dismayed, but doesn't really want to intervene.
That sounds familiar – and it happened in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Soviet leader Josef Stalin demanded security guarantees and cessions of territory from Finland because he saw Leningrad threatened. Finland, which only declared independence from Russian rule in 1917 after a long period of affiliation with Sweden and Russia, was open and negotiated with Moscow.
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