The Soviet Union suffered between 321,000 and 381,000 casualties. And one Finnish soldier named Simo Häyhä played a huge part ...

The fighting at Leningrad was relentless, and the city was completely cut off from the outside world due to an effective ...

The Lotta Svärd is a difficult group to explain to Westerners as both the Lotta Svärd and the Suojeluskunta (the Finnish Civil Guard) do not have contemporaries in the United States, Great Britain, or ...

A white granite headstone in Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery bears a name that sounds American: Larry Allan Thorne. But the man buried there was born Lauri Allan Törni in Viipuri, Finland, ...

HUBBARDSTON – According to the “History of the Town of Hubbardston” by Leo J. Sullivan, written in 1993, the most important immigration trend in the town’s history was that of the Finns. The early ...

The Russian military's performance in Ukraine has raised doubts about its capabilities. The war has also drawn comparisons to the Winter War, when the Soviets attacked Finland in 1939. There's reason ...

The complicated relationship between Russia and Finland is yet again in a state of decline. Finland formally joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the world's largest military alliance, on ...

A 250kg World War II bomb discovered in Rauma’s port triggered a Finnish Navy operation and renewed focus on Baltic Sea ...