The atrocities perpetrated by White faction led Lapua Movement during the aftermath of the failed Mäntsälä rebellion was one cause of this conflict.
The atrocities perpetrated by White faction led Lapua Movement during the aftermath of the failed Mäntsälä rebellion was one cause of this conflict. During one episode of the war an infantry division of some 20,000 troops was ambushed and destroyed by an inferior force during the battle of Suomussalmi. The conflict was immediately precipitated by the staged shelling of Mainila, a town on the aggressor's side of the border. That border, stretched across the Karelian Isthmus, saw tensions reignited in the next decade as part of another War. In the end the conflict resulted in only modest territorial gains around Lake Ladoga. For ten points, name this 1939 war fought along the Mannerheim Line, a Russo-Finish conflict named for a certain season.
The atrocities perpetrated by White faction led Lapua Movement during the aftermath of the failed Mäntsälä rebellion was one cause of this conflict.
{Winter} War