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airplanes misleadingly marked with Civic Guard sleeve badges. The actual insignia, swastika, used since 1918 in Finnish military airplanes, could not be used because it had easily been confused with that of Germany, then the contractual partner of the Soviet Union. Cover page of the book: "Heroes of the Finnish campaign". The Krasnaja Zvezda Publishing House, Moscow, 1940. Drawn by Dolgorukov. |
Pravda Nr. , Nov 26, 1939: A Buffoon holding the post of Prime Minister
People's Power (Kansan valta) Nr. 4, Dec 7, 1939: Soviet airplanes over Viipuri
People's Power (Kansan valta) Nr. 10, Dec 15, 1939: Soviet pilots — Eagles of liberty
People's Power (Kansan valta) Nr. 6, Jan 17, 1940: A living corpse [League of Nations]
People's Power (Kansan valta) Nr. 24, Feb 23, 1940: The People's Government of Finland greets the Red Army
Prinimai nas, Suomi — krasavitsa. Receive us, Suomi [Finland] — the beauty. Presented by a Red Army ensamble in 1939. YouTube (Russian soldiers advancing, song with Finnish subtitles). Heninen, MP3
For Freedom of the People of Finland. Four poems from the collection For the Glory of Motherland. Poems and songs of the Red Army and the Navy. State Publishing House "Artistic Literature", Leningrad, 1940).
People's Power (Kansan valta).
Publisher: the "Democratic Government of Finland", headed by Otto-Wille Kuusinen.
17 issues from the Winter War times 1939-1940 (pdf, in Finnish, 35 MB).
Soviet-Russian view of the reasons of the Winter War and establishment of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic. Pages 33-47 from The Saga of the Karelo-Finnish Republic by I. Sergeyev, Workers Library Publishers, Inc. New York, January, 1941.
Finnish
Week in Pictures in Finland (the magazine Suomen Kuvalehti) N:o 50, Dec. 1939: Marks of Soviet air raid destruction in Helsinki
Newspaper Uusi Suomi, N:o 15, Jan. 17, 1940: Huge number of booty on battlegrounds at Suomussalmi
Newspaper Uusi Suomi , N:o 31, Feb. 2, 1940: Columnist Timo: Against flying devils.
Swedish
British
The Times news comment on Swedish reactions, November 29, 1939
The Times leading article, December 11, 1939: Finland at Geneva.
The Times leading article on Soviet comments about expulsion of the USSR from the League of Nations, December 18, 1939: Strange jargon in which "provocation" meant the resolution of a small people to defend its borders.
British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax on BBC (Finnish language transmission), on March 24, 1940: The bravery shown by the Finnish people will be rewarded in the future.
American
Former president Herbert Hoover appeals to the American people for material help to Finland. Subtitles in Finnish. (YouTube 5:40, the last 2 minutes).
Life Magazine's evalution of the Soviet demands on Finland and the Baltic states. October 30, 1939.
Back to the Winter War
Finland in the Great Power politics, 1939-1940.
Finland in the Soviet foreign policy, 1939-1940. Material from the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union and other sources.
