The Winter War

During late 1939 and March 1940, the Soviet Union and Finland were at war over land control because they needed to protect because the Soviet wanted to protect Leningrad (St Petersburg) from the Nazi who were annexing other countries for lebensraum. Both sides suffered casualties but the Red Army with their uniforms, purged army and equipment inferior to the Finns' guerrilla war tactics suffered the most. In the end, the Soviet Union gained around 22,000 square miles but in return lost a million soldiers. It should be noted that Finland was part of the Russian Empire before the 1917 February and October Revolutions.