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Finland WW2 1940 Winter War against Russia Army Mannerheim 1941 stamp A-1
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Good rare stamp.The Winter War
was a war between the Soviet Union (USSR) and Finland. It began with a Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939, three months after the outbreak of World War II, and ended three and a half months later with the Moscow Peace Treaty on 13 March 1940. Despite superior military strength, especially in tanks and aircraft, the Soviet Union suffered severe losses and initially made little headway. The League of Nations deemed the attack illegal and expelled the Soviet Union from the organization.
Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
(4 June 1867 – 27 January 1951) was a Finnish military leader and statesman. He served as the military leader of the Whites in the Finnish Civil War of 1918, Regent of Finland (1918–1919), commander-in-chief of Finland's defense forces during World War II (1939–1945), Marshal of Finland, and the sixth president of Finland (1944–1946).