The Winter War Photographs | World War II Database

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Finnish diplomats Väinö Tanner and J. K. Paasikivi at the rail station in Helsinki, Finland, departing for the Soviet Union in an attempt to avoid war, 9 Oct 1939	Finnish Prime Minister A. K. Kajander, Parliament Speaker Väinö Hakkila, and Alli Paasikivi seeing Juho Kusti Paasikivi off to Russia for negotiations, Helsinki, Finland, 9 Oct 1939

Finnish troops posing with anti-aircraft machine guns at a railyard in Helsinki, Finland, 13 Oct 1939	Finnish diplomats Aarno Yrjö-Koskinen, Juho Kusti Paasikivi, Johan Nykopp, and Aladár Paasonen having just returned from Moscow negotiations, Helsinki, Finland, 16 Oct 1939

Finnish troops observing the field on the Russo-Finnish border prior to the outbreak of the Winter War, Nov 1939	A building in Helsinki, Finland on fire from aerial bombing, 30 Nov 1939

Civilian wounded by aerial bombing, Lönnrothkatu Street, Helsinki, Finland, 30 Nov 1939	Finnish civilians escaping from a building damaged by aerial bombing, Lönnrothkatu Street, Helsinki, Finland, 30 Nov 1939

Soviet SB-2 bombers over Helsinki, Finland, 30 Nov 1939	Crashed Soviet Tupolev ANT-40/SB aircraft in Finland, Dec 1939

Finnish civilians protesting in front of the Swedish embassy in Helsinki, Finland, demanding official assistance in the Winter War, Dec 1939	Finnish soldiers on skis on the retreat, near Hyrsylä, Finland, early Dec 1939

Tracers lighting up the sky over Finland, Dec 1939	Finnish civilians in a bomb shelter, Helsinki, Finland, 2 Dec 1939

Finnish troops leaving Suojärvi, Finland, 2 Dec 1939; note smoke rising from the sabotaged equipment	Soviet T-26 light tanks and T-20 Komsomolets armored tractors crossing the Russian border into Finland during the Winter War, 2 Dec 1939

T-26 light tanks and GAZ-A trucks of Soviet 7th Army, Finland, 2 Dec 1939	Vyacheslav Molotov signing a pact with Soviet-puppet state Finnish Democratic Republic, Moscow, Russia, 2 Dec 1939; Andrei Zhdanov, Kliment Voroshilov, Joseph Stalin, and Otoo Wille Kuusinen in background

Finnish Foreign Minister Rudolf Holsti speaking at the League of Nations General Assembly, protesting the Soviet invasion, Geneva, Switzerland, 11 Dec 1939	Finnish soldier dragging a box of ammunition on the eastern side of the Kollaa River, Russia, 17 Dec 1939