The Battles of the Winter War
Information of the Soviet invasion of Finland 1939
- 1940
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Parts of this website
are still under construction, even some published pages are partly
undone. I try to add more, whenever I find the time.
Also as my native language isn't English, and only some pages have
been proof read, I would be grateful to know if some parts of the
text are totally incomprehensible. |
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There are the following navigational buttons
on the top and bottom of every page. You can browse through all
of the pages using the Sitemap -page. If you want to return to
the index-page, click this or the top
title bar
- Main page
- This one, of course
- Sitemap
- To get a quick look at all of
the pages
- History
- Events and background which lead
to the Winter War
- Forces
- Data of the armed forces of Finland
and the Soviet Union
- Tactics
- Finnish and Soviet tactics during
the Winter War (in short)
- Weapons
- Data of common infantry weapons,
tanks, antitank weapons and artillery
- The M-Line
- History of the Mannerheim Line,
along with some detailed data
- Isthmus
- 3 maps, which show the Isthmus
Front at the start, middle and end of the war
- Battles
- Some of the battles fought in
the Winter War
- War's End
- The heavy peace terms and casualties
suffered during the war
- Misc.
- Miscellaneous articles, which
do not fit in the above categories
- Sources
- Printed sources used in making
the articles
- Abbreviations
- A list of abbreviations used
in the articles of this website
- Links
- a collection of interesting links
- What's new
- A page where I try to include
a list of modifications and updates made to the site
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Awards
"The
site of the month award"
for October 2000 by British
Wargames
Important
The history of the Finnish blue
swastika
The Finnish blue
swastika was originally the symbol of luck of the family of Count
von Rosen, who donated to the Finnish "White Army" it's
first plane, in 1918, during the War of Independence.
It was adopted
as the official national marking of the Finnish Air Forces and
later on, the Army. Only after the Nazis adopted it as their emblem
did it acquire political significance. In other words, the Finnish
swastika had nothing to do with the Nazi party, Nazi ideology
or fascism in general.
After the fall of the 3rd Reich, the Finnish
Defense Forces abandoned the disreputable swastika in favor of
the new national marking; the blue and white roundel.
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