Winter War

"They also have a memory of the Winter War, which transpired during World War Two, where they were invaded by the Soviet Union."

During the 1939-40 Winter War with the Soviet Union, Finnish troops dosed themselves with heroin in order to keep fighting through their runny noses and the fierce Nordic winter.

During the 1939-40 Winter War with the Soviet Union, Finnish troops dosed themselves with heroin to keep fighting through their runny noses and the fierce Nordic winter.

Eric Rauchway is a professor of history at the University of California–Davis who wrote about the electoral consequences of the 19th Amendment—as well as the growth of social welfare programs and federal regulation of business—in his book Winter War: Hoover, Roosevelt, and the First Clash Over the New Deal.

Finland has an extended history of war with its larger eastern neighbor — Finns coined the term “Molotov cocktail” during their 1939 Winter War with Russia.