THE 1939 WINTER WAR: SOVIETS 'HAVE LIBERATED VYBORG, BUT HAVEN'T MANAGED TO LIBERATE HELSINKI'

A week ago we commemorate another memorable date in European history of the XX cent. On November 30, 1939, the Soviet-Finnish war began. To put it simply, the USSR invaded Finland. The Finns had fought with dignity, but a little and young country had a small chance to stop the Soviet machine. Therefore, the war ended with the fact that the enormous Soviet Union had taken a piece out of the small North European country. As if the USSR hadn't enought of its own lands. 

As a result of that war, among other lands the Soviet Union had swallowed a part of the Karelian Isthmus together with the city of Vyborg. This territory was annexed to the Leningrad Region. 

"The Soviet army has managed to save Vyborg," as the USSR's propaganda used to write. And here are few photos from the Finish city, where the "Russian World" has came once.  

Here is just some random headers about Vyborg from Google: The historic buildings quarter has been demolished in Vyborg; Vyborg will no longer exist; From hands to ruins; Vyborg, welcome to the ruin.  

And here are photos to compare from Helsinki, to which the Soviet liberators' hand hadn't managed to reach:

In 1939 Finland had all chances to become another Soviet republic, if not an autonomy within the RSFSR. Did they lost the war, as the Soviet history claims? They have won!

To come to where people live peacefully and happily, and turn someone else's life into depressive ruins - this is the national idea of Russia. They really do not lie when they say: "we can repeat it..."

Ukraine, Donbass, 2015. The Russian (separatist) tank shelling a civil house:

by Denis KAZANSKY, source