From “allies without alliance” to concerted action: Romania and Finland in the aftermath of the Operation Barbarossa (1941)
Journal: The Romanian Journal for Baltic and Nordic Studies
Year: 2010

This study describes the relationship between two small and lesser states joining the German attack against Soviet Union in an attempt to recapture the territories lost to Soviet Union in 1940. It is conceived as an in-depth analysis of the Romanian-Finnish relations based on the criticism of archival sources discovered in the Romanian, Finnish and British archives. Becoming “allies without alliance” almost overnight, the relations between the two countries acknowledged a quick shift from low pr