Die Belagerung Leningrads (8. September 1941 – 27. Januar 1944) war die zweitblutigste Schlacht des Zweiten Weltkriegs

Finland played a major part at the Eastern Front of WWII among Germany’s European allies between 1941-44.

But the earlier Winter War is seen as something of a „Leonidas at Thermopylae“ thing, and not only by the Finns themselves. Their resistance in 1939-40 has overshadowed their role in the Axis.

Finland also played its cards rather well in the Cold War that followed in the sense that it basically remained independent, although Stalin did extract a lot, both in territory annexed to the USSR and in relation to obtaining a say in domestic Finnish politics (i.e. what was later, perhaps unfairly, dubbed „Finlandization“).

What was the offshoot pocket with two soviet flags in it

Thank you, Finland (no)

Finland would have very likely stayed out of this crap in the early 40’s if the dumbasses in Moscow, Stalin and his red band of cunts, wouldn’t have invaded Finland in late 1939.

People tend to forget that Finland was a member of the Axis longer than Italy was

Listen to Dan Carlins ghosts of the Ostfront podcast about the eastern front of ww2