they lost that one. how would it count as a victory?
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SnortsGarlicPowder@lemmy.zip 1 year agoDoes the Winter War not count as a Finnish victory?
huf@hexbear.net 1 year ago
Salmarez@hexbear.net 1 year ago
No? They lost territory and their second biggest city at the time and the Mannerheim line was disassembled. Yeah, the Soviet Union did not take over the whole country, but that was not their goal, securing the area around Leningrad was.
SnortsGarlicPowder@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Looked it up, apparently I was missinformed about the outcome of that war.