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Soviet-Finnish war remembered

Published: 12 March, 2009, 08:46


Thursday marks the sixty-ninth anniversary of the peace treaty ending the 1939-40 military conflict between the Soviet Union and Finland. It lasted for 105 bitterly cold days and is known as the Winter War.

 
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