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Finnish soldiers raise the flag at the three-country cairn between Norway, Sweden, and Finland on 27 April 1945, which marked the end of World War II in Finland.. Finland participated in the Second World War initially in a defensive war against the Soviet Union, followed by another, this time offensive, war against the Soviet Union acting in concert with Nazi Germany and then finally fighting ...
The picture became widely circulated in Finland and became an exemplar of war photography in Finnish World War II history. It has been compared to similar pictures, such as the American Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima and the Soviet Raising a Flag over the Reichstag. All three of these were 'staged' photographs; in each case the photo was a re ...
The Winter War [F 6] was a war between the Soviet Union and Finland.It began with a Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939, three months after the outbreak of World War II, and ended three and a half months later with the Moscow Peace Treaty on 13 March 1940.
The Continuation War, [f] also known as the Second Soviet-Finnish War, was a conflict fought by Finland and Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union during World War II.It began with a Finnish declaration of war on 25 June 1941 and ended on 19 September 1944 with the Moscow Armistice.
This is a list of wars involving Finland since its declaration of independence on 6 December 1917. List. Conflict Party 1 Party 2 Result Finnish leaders
Finland did sign the revived Anti-Comintern Pact of November 1941. [128] Finland signed a peace treaty with the Allied powers in 1947 which described Finland as having been "an ally of Hitlerite Germany" during the continuation war. [129] As such, Finland was the only democracy to join the Axis.
Map showing areas ceded by Finland to the Soviet Union; Porkkala was returned to Finland in 1956. The Karelian question or Karelian issue (Finnish: Karjala-kysymys, Swedish: Karelska frågan, Russian: Карельский вопрос) is a dispute in Finnish politics over whether to try to regain control over eastern Karelia and other territories ceded to the Soviet Union in the Winter War ...
After World War II, Finland was in the grey zone between the West and the Soviet Union. The 1948 agreement between Finland and the Soviet Union on friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance, 'the YYA Agreement', attached Finland militarily to the same camp as the Soviet Union, although Finland officially declared that it was an impartial state.