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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 ...
Simo Häyhä (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈsimo ˈhæy̯hæ] ⓘ; 17 December 1905 – 1 April 2002), often referred to by his nickname The White Death (Finnish: Valkoinen kuolema; Russian: Бе́лая смерть, romanized: Bélaya smert’), was a Finnish military sniper during World War II in the 1939–1940 Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union.
[2] [3] He served as the military leader of the Whites in the Finnish Civil War (1918), as Regent of Finland (1918–1919), as commander-in-chief of the Finnish Defence Forces during World War II (1939–1945), and as the sixth president of Finland (1944–1946).
Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland: Eugen Schauman: Killed by a Finnish nationalist for implementing Russification in Finland. Happens on day described in James Joyce's novel Ulysses, is briefly mentioned in the book. 6 February 1905: Eliel Soisalon-Soininen, Chancellor of Justice: Lennart Hohenthal
Killed by a car bomb planted by unidentified militant Thomas Sankara: President of Burkina Faso: October 15, 1987: Ouagadougou Burkina Faso: Soldiers under the command of Gilbert Diendéré: René Moawad: President of Lebanon: November 22, 1989: Beirut Lebanon: Killed by a car bomb Ahmed Abdallah: President of the Comoros: November 26, 1989 ...
Regent (interim head of state) of Finland (1918–1919). Commander-in-Chief of the Finnish Defence Forces (1939–1945). The only Field Marshal and Marshal of Finland. Decreed as president in 1944 by an exception law. Resigned in 1946 because of poor health. Finland's only non-partisan president and the only president to die outside Finland. 7.
After World War II, Bárdossy was tried by a People's Court in November 1945. He was sentenced to death and executed in 1946. Miklós Kállay was prime minister from 1942 until 1944. Döme Sztójay was prime minister from March until August 1944. Sztójay was captured by American troops and extradited to Hungary in October 1945, after which ...
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 .