A Long Winter’s Night – Day 8: Winter as Weapon
Posted By Randy on December 28, 2016
Source: Library of Congress
If you’ve heard of the Napoleonic Wars and World War II, you’ll have heard how anyone who invades Russia and doesn’t wrap up business before the snow falls is asking to have their ass handed to them. The Russians, we’re told, are the masters of Winter, but today we’re going to look at an engagement that strongly suggests otherwise.
The Winter War (Finnish: Talvisota, Swedish: Vinterkriget ….) was a military conflict between the Soviet Union and Finland in 1939–1940. It began with the Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939 (three months after the outbreak of World War II), and ended with the Moscow Peace Treaty on 13 March 1940. The League of Nations deemed the attack illegal and expelled the Soviet Union from the League on 14 December 1939.
The 2006 documentary Fire and Ice : The Winter War of Finland and Russia is more than a chronicle of historic events, and isn’t offered here with any political motive whatsoever. Watch it all the way through and you’ll learn what I mean.
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