Hidden Background of the Winter Battle - Winter Warriors Documentary

The Winter Battle was an army problem in between the Soviet Union and Finland in 1939-- 1940. It started with the Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939 (3 months after the outbreak of The second world war), as well as finished with the Moscow Peace Treaty on 13 March 1940. The League of Nations regarded the attack illegal and expelled the Soviet Union from the Organization on 14 December 1939.
The Soviet Union ostensibly sought to claim parts of Finnish region, demanding-- amongst other giving ins-- that Finland cede substantial perimeter territories for land elsewhere, claiming security reasons, primarily the protection of Leningrad, which was only 32 km (20 mi) from the Finnish border. Finland refused and the USSR invaded the country. Many sources conclude that the Soviet Union had intended to conquer all Finland, and use the establishment of the puppet Finnish Communist government and the Molotov-- Ribbentrop Pact's secret protocols as proof of this, while other sources argue against this idea of a complete Soviet conquest.
The Soviets possessed greater than three times as several soldiers as the Finns, thirty times as many aircraft, as well as a hundred times as many containers. The Red Army, however, had been crippled by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's Great Purge of 1937. With even more compared to 30,000 of its officers executed or imprisoned, including most of those of the highest ranks, the Red Military in 1939 had many inexperienced elderly and mid-level policemans.