On this day, 86 years ago, on November 30, 1939 (October 20, 1939, the War between the Soviet Union and Finland broke out. The Soviet Union paid a high price in the Sufinn War. After the defeat of Poland, in order to further improve the strategic posture of the Baltic flank and the northwest border and ensure the security of Leningrad and Murmansk, the Soviet Union successively signed mutual assistance treaties with Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, allowing it to station troops in important locations of the three countries. In October 1939, on the grounds of ensuring the security of its northwest border, especially Leningrad, the Soviet Union asked the Finnish government to move the border near Leningrad 20-30 kilometers north and lease Hanko Port to the Soviet Union for 30 years. naval base. The Soviet Union promised to give Finland more than twice as much land as the Rebora region in exchange. The Finnish government rejected the Soviet proposal. Border conflicts between the two sides continue here. On the morning of November 30, 1939, Soviet troops attacked Finland, but the progress was not smooth. In February 1940, the Soviet Army concentrated its superior forces to break through Finland's strong Mannerim Line. It also implemented a roundabout encirclement from behind Viborg, and Finland was defeated and peaceful. On March 12, 1940, Finland was forced to sign the Sufen Peace Treaty with the Soviet Union in Moscow. According to the agreement, the entire Isthmus of Karelian, which originally belonged to Finland, several islands in the Gulf of Finland, and parts of the Sala, Kusamo and Rebaqi Peninsula in the north were transferred to the Soviet Union, and Hanko Port was leased to the Soviet Union for a 30-year period. As a naval base. The Soviet soldier who was killed in the Suburban War and his body was exposed to the snow by Marshal Temusingo, Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Western Front Army. Extended reading: The Soviet Union attacked Finland. Extended reading: The Soviet Union attacked Finland On November 30, 1939, the flames of the European War were strong. The powerful Soviet Union launched an unjust war of aggression against weak Finland, and the Suburban War broke out. Finland's weak enemy's strong Soviet army's long-term attack failed to defeat Finland's war against the Soviet Union was a well-known war of weak versus strong. After the October Revolution, after years of socialist construction, the Soviet Union achieved very remarkable results in economy and military. The military power was even greater than that of the powerful Fascist Germany at that time. On November 30, 1939, the Soviet Army launched a full-scale attack on Finland from four directions with 20 divisions (450,000 troops), 2000 tanks and more than 1000 combat aircraft. They attempted to "liberate" Finland within three days, and established a puppet government in Finland that night. At that time, Finland's population was only 3.7 million, and the total number of national defense forces was only 33,000. The equipment of the Finnish Army is only at the level of World War I. Finland has a small territory and has no strategic space at all. The top Soviet leaders proudly believed that Finland would be as vulnerable as other Baltic countries and obediently submitted to the Soviet Union's powerful infancy. However, under the very unfavorable balance of power, the Finnish army relied on the solid fortifications of the "Mannerheim Line" built in the Karelian Isthmus from 1927 to 1939, and took advantage of the severe cold and favorable terrain of swamps and forests to launch counterattack, positional warfare and consumable encirclement and annihilation warfare. Therefore, in addition to making rapid progress in the Bezemo and Sala areas in the Arctic Ocean, the Soviet Army suffered heavy casualties in the Karelian Isthmus and Lake Ladoga, and the main position of the Finnish army was unable to attack for a long time. In addition, during the "Great Purge" of the Soviet Union, most military generals were persecuted, and the "lucky" generals who were alive had no intention of directing the war. The cruel and ruthless severe cold climate caused heavy losses to the Soviet army. According to the memoirs of Khrushchev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the Soviet Army actually lost millions of people in the Soviet-Finnish War. The Soviet Union brazenly invaded Finland's socialist Soviet Union, which was considered to be comparable in military strength to Germany. Taking advantage of the defeat of Poland in September 1939, the Finnish government would certainly not accept the Soviet Union's unreasonable demands. As a result, the Soviet Union unilaterally tore up the "Non-Aggression Treaty between the Soviet Union and Finland" concluded in 1932 and launched a war of aggression against weak Finland on November 30, 1939. It was the victory of the October Revolution in Russia in 1917 that enabled Finland to gain independence from the occupation of Tsar Russia; however, 22 years later, it was the Soviet Union established by the October Revolution that launched an unjust war of aggression against Finland. Snow snipers made the Soviet army desperate. In this war of fighting the weak against the strong, Finnish snipers had very outstanding results. Shooting every shot is the realm that snipers pursue. According to statistics, during World War II, on average, 25,000 rounds of bullets were needed for every soldier killed. During the Vietnam War, it took an average of 200,000 rounds to kill a soldier, but a sniper during the same period only needed an average of 1.3 rounds. What a huge difference in numbers! The most powerful sniper in Finland is SimoHayha. SimoHayha is Finland and the world's highest hunting record of 505 times. Finnish snipers led by SimoHayha formed a skiing force. Most of them were professional hunters and were very familiar with the geographical environment of the mountains and forests. They wore white camouflage uniforms as white as snow and rode sleds to and from the wilderness where the roads were blocked by heavy snow. In a snow-white environment, Soviet Red Army soldiers in clumsy tan uniforms trudging through the snow were the most obvious targets. Although the ski team led by SimoHayha used the Mosin-Nagant rifle used from the imperial Russia period, it was able to kill the Soviet army at a distance of 700 meters, causing great fear among the Soviet soldiers, calling them the "White Death." Even if they were lying on the snow, the Soviets could not escape the sniper's quick and accurate fire. As long as your head sticks out of the ground, it will take less than 30 seconds to leave the war-torn world forever. Some cowardly soldiers did not dare to raise their heads and lay on the ground. They only focused on shooting with their heads lowered, but a hole was punched in their buttocks. Due to his outstanding contribution in the Suburban War, SimoHayha was respectfully called a "national hero" by the Finnish people. Perhaps due to the strong fear of the "White Death", when Finnish snipers shot hungry and exhausted Soviet soldiers by the bonfire on a snowy night, they turned a blind eye to their comrades who had died suddenly and waited quietly for their own bullet due to extreme despair. In SimoHayha's 505 kills, many of the dead looked very calm at the end, but who knows whether they are calm or hopeless under this seemingly calm appearance? Armistice Negotiations Finland's War of Cession of Land continued until March of the following year. The heavy cost of the Soviet-Finnish War forced the Soviet Union to face reality and renegotiate peace treaties with Finland. The Finnish government also ran out of ammunition and food and had to accept the Soviet Union's terms of peace. On March 13, 1940, the two countries signed a peace agreement in Moscow. Finland ceded most of the islands in the Karelian Isthmus, the Sara region and the Gulf of Finland in the southeast, including Finland's third largest city, Viburg, to the Soviet Union, and leased Hanko Port to the Soviet Union for 30 years. Although Finland ceded 1/10 of its territory, it avoided the fate of being incorporated into the Soviet Union together with other Baltic countries through war. In the end, although it made some compromises with the Soviet Union, it basically guaranteed national sovereignty and national independence. Since the entire war was fought in the severe winter, historians also called it the "Winter War". The Finnish Olympic Games died. This year is the 28th Olympic Games held in Athens, but in fact only 24 Olympic Games have been held in history. From the 1936 Berlin Olympics to the 1948 London Olympics, due to the influence of World War II, the Olympics were forced to be suspended for 12 years. The 1940 Olympic Games was originally scheduled to be held in Tokyo, Japan. However, due to Japan's all-out war of aggression against China in 1937, the Olympic Committee moved the venue to Helsinki, the capital of Finland. But not long after, the Soviet War broke out, and on January 1, 1940, Finland notified the International Olympic Committee to voluntarily give up the right to host. Subsequently, the war spread across the European continent and around the world, and the 12th Olympic Games was aborted in the war of World War II.