Why did the Finns go to war with the USSR and how did it all end?
Why did the Finns go to war with the USSR and how did it all end?
Most of the Red Army soldiers who had to meet Finnish soldiers with their own eyes noted that it was very hard to fight with them. Finns by nature have always been hunters and woodcutters. Tall, sturdy, able to sit patiently for days in ambushes and shoot well. Sometimes their small reconnaissance groups penetrated into our rear and certainly dragged away a stray Red Army soldier. In addition, the Finns were determined not to let the Soviet Union into their territory. Here is what one of the veterans of the Great Patriotic War recalled about it. Although the Finns were fed up with the war, they were afraid of revenge and reprisals. They also didn't want collective farms. Although I myself did not fight long, I can say that Finns are very strong soldiers. The Germans also pushed them to resist. For Finland and for us it turned out to be tens of thousands of dead. In any case, the Finns could not resist the Red Army, and in September 1944 Finland signed an armistice with the Soviet Union.
