Soviet People For and Against the Invasion of Finland - KGB Files

“We must bring Finland to its knees“. These words of one of the inhabitants of Soviet Ukraine, along with dozens of others, ended up in a NKVD report dated December 4, 1939. 4 days before this, the Red Army started a #war against #Finland. Stalin wanted to move the border farther from Leningrad by capturing a part of the neighboring country, and to turn Finland into a satellite state. The #USSR accused its victim of aggression and, using a puppet “government“, announced that it was going to liberate the Finnish people. What did ordinary people in the USSR think about that war? Did they believe in state propaganda or sympathize with the Finns? The NKVD documents from the archives of the Security Service of Ukraine tell us about this. Support our channel: ​ 1:24 “Our 183 million people are not afraid of the provocations of these bugs“ 3:14 “Our troops, sent to the Finnish border, are in a terrible mood“ 4:36 “I would like the Finns to beat ours“ 8:29 “So many people died because of some insignificant piece of the Karelian Isthmus“ Written by Eduard Andryushchenko. Host: Pavlo Morkovkin. Video editor: Slava Chizhenok. Design by Alyona Troyan. I’m Eduard Andryushchenko, a Ukrainian historian and journalist. KGB Files is a history channel presenting fascinating stories I find in declassified #KGB​ archives. Twitter: ​ Telegram: ​ (in Ukrainian) or ​ (in Russian) Contains music: Evil March by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. Source: Artist: Contains image: Finland’s territorial concessions to the Soviet Union displayed in red / Jniemenmaa - Own work / CC BY-SA 3.0