Finland (HM6)

Parallel to , Finland had to fight the Finno-Soviet Winter War in 1939/40. The Soviets already had installed a puppet government in Terijoki/Zelenogorsk under Otto Wille Kuusinen called the "Finnish Democratic Republic", planning to take over the whole country. Before they attacked Finland, they artillery bombed the Karelian border village of Mainila and claimed it was the Finns' fault. Finnish cities were bombed, and the Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov spread the Lie they had only dropped breadbaskets for hungry Finns. Although the Finns fought like heroes, and Simo Häyhä became the most successful sniper of history, and the still suffered from the purges by since 1937, the won at the End. 70,000 Finnish Soldiers had fallen, but hundreds of thousands of Redarmists. In the peace treaty of Moscow, Finland had to cede about 35,000 sq km Land with 420,000 inhabitants and the big city of Vyborg/Viipuri (the Finns left this Land and had to be resettled) to the Soviet Union. Finally, the Hanko/Hangö peninsula was leased for 30 years to the SU, so they could found a military base there.
Since they worried about the spreading Soviet danger now, and thought up the , which didn't lead anywhere at the end though. The broke off trade with the SU in January 1940.
But the (hi)story isn't over yet. Many Finns are thinking about revenge, the country moved closer to after being disappointed by the Western Allies, and some Finns even dream of a .
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