Author(s): Xu Longbin
Pages: 67-74+96
Year: 2013 Issue:  5
Journal: Russian, Central Asian & East European Studies
Keyword:  苏联; 芬兰; 苏芬战争;
Abstract: The aim of Soviet invasion of Finland was to overthrow Finnish government at the moment to establish a pro-Soviet puppet government.The reason why the Soviet Union stopped the war before achieving its purpose was to avoid the armed interference and waging war to the Soviet Union by some Western powers.The war’s positive implication for the Soviet Union was that the Soviet Army received the baptism of modern warfare,saw its own shortcomings and prompted it to learn to meet the shortfall of military force.The war’s negative sense is that the Soviet Army’s poor Soviet combat capability encouraged Germany’s " early" launched an offensive against the Soviet Union and resulted in the Soviet Union’s passivity at the beginning of the Second World War,and it pushed Finland to stand with German side and became an accomplice when Germany attacked the Soviet Union.