Americans like to cheer for the underdog. But when little Finland was invaded by the mighty Soviet Union in December 1939, folks in Southeast Minnesota became more than cheerleaders. This faraway war, ...

On September 22, 1940, the first ships carrying Wehrmacht soldiers from Nazi Germany arrived in Finland. The startled chief of police at the port city of Vaasa rang the ministry of the interior for ...

Finland’s frontier, as I subsequently found, is only twenty miles from Leningrad at its southernmost tip on the Gulf of Finland. The Muscovite spokesmen shouted through the microphone that the Finns ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

In early World War II, on Nov. 30, 1939, a Soviet-Russian army invaded Finland in a surprise massive attack. The Finns were eventually outnumbered nearly 3 to 1. The population of the Soviet Union in ...