Winter War
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| Winter War | |||||||||
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| Part of World War II | |||||||||
 A Finnish machine gun crew during the Winter War. |
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| Combatants | |||||||||
 Finland |
 Soviet Union |
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| C. G. E. Mannerheim | Kirill Meretskov Kliment Voroshilov Semyon Timoshenko[F 1] |
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| Strength | |||||||||
| 337,000–346,500 men[F 2] [4][5] 32 tanks[F 3][6] 114 aircraft[F 4][7] |
425,640–760,578 men[F 5] 998,100 men (overall) |
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| Casualties | |||||||||
| 25,904 dead or missing [F 7][13] 43,557 wounded[14] 1,000 captured[F 8][15] 957 civilians in air raids[13] 20–30 tanks 62 aircraft[16] |
126,875 dead or missing [17][F 9] 188,671 wounded, injured or burned[17] 5,572 captured[19] |
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The Winter War (30 November 1939 - 13 March 1940) was a conflict fought between the Soviet Union and Finland. It began when the Soviet Union tried to invade Finland soon after the Invasion of Poland. The Soviet military forces expected a victory over Finland in a few weeks, but the Finnish forces resisted both better and longer than expected.
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