Finnish officers pose against the backdrop of captured Soviet flags, reviewing the guidebook “

Finnish officers pose against the backdrop of captured Soviet flags, reviewing the guidebook “Ski Training in the Red Army,” 1940. Finland backed the Axis from 1939-1944 due to ongoing tension with Russia stemming from the Russian Empire’s conquest of Finland in 1809; conflict between Finland and Russia ended in 1944, following the signing of the Moscow Armistice, which stipulated expulsion of German forces from Finnish territory. [x]