Finland, along with other NATO newbie Sweden, fills a gap in the alliance’s jigsaw puzzle, stretching from northern Lapland ...

In December 1939, the Soviet Union launched a large-scale invasion of Finland, expecting a rapid victory that instead turned into a difficult winter campaign. Finnish resistance, harsh weather, and ...

In late 1939, the Soviet Union – a country with more than 170 million people and the world’s biggest army – went to war with Finland, a country with a population of less than four million and an ...

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World War II was not just one clash of alliances - it fractured into smaller wars where isolated nations had to survive on their own, and Finland’s fight against the Soviet Union became one of the ...

The Finnish government is studying some of the hundreds of properties that have been bought near critical infrastructure and sensitive sites for signs of possible Russian infiltration.

Widows fellowship, 9 a.m. to noon, Moose Lake Evangelical Covenant Church, 700 Fifth St. "The Empty Chair" program invites widows and widowers to gather for support. Ojibwe story time, ...

Jamaica made its debut at the Winter Olympic Games at the 1988 Calgary Games and gave the world a story of determination and heroism. Canada’s men’s hockey team had one goal at the 2010 Vancouver ...

In the midst of a brutally cold winter, an unwelcome armed force invades a peaceful community, bringing panic, turmoil and ...

Many in the West today imagine the Soviet Union as it’s portrayed in Call of Duty games: a land of prisons and labor camps, where every citizen marched to the tune of the Party and its all-seeing ...

Mikhail Gorbachev had been the leader of the Soviet Union for just 13 days when he was suddenly faced with an international crisis. On March 24, 1985, a Soviet sentry shot and killed U.S. Army Maj.

I’ve studied Czechoslovakia in 1968. I live in Minneapolis. The similarities between the historic invasion and the current ICE “surge” are scary. Alice Lovejoy In Czechoslovakia on August 21, 1968, ...