Talvisota

• Today marks 83 years since the start of the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union. The Red Army invaded Finland without a declaration of war and opened fire on the Karelian Isthmus at 6.50am. The war lasted 105 days.

• also called “winter war”, “Soviet-Finnish war”.

• in art: Sabaton - Talvisota

• Bungling the Prewar and First Moves in Finland 1939 and Ukraine 2022: A Comedy of Errors for Stalin’s Soviet Union and Putin’s Russia, Respectively

• Tim Starr, Murray N. Rothbard/Winter War