The Soviet invasion of Finland in November 1939 is strikingly just like the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Russia is now making lots of the similar errors as in its earlier army failure. Finland had been beneath Swedish and Russian rule till 1918; Ukraine didn’t break free from the Soviet Union till 1991. Each nations had lately gained their valuable independence and have been decided to struggle for it.
The identical tragic parts have appeared in each wars: defective Russian intelligence, misguided expectations of a fast victory with few casualties, brutal invasion of a weaker nation, bombardment of cities, assaults on civilians, poor coaching, insufficient provides, low morale, reluctance to struggle, humiliating defeats, common condemnation, lack of allied intervention, and publicity of army weak spot. A quick account of the Finnish warfare illuminates these parallels.
