The Soviet Stalin aggression on November 30, 1939, was pre-planned invasion well in advance, with the support of the Nazi German-Soviet Pact of Aggression. The invasion attempt of Finland by the Soviet forces during winter 1939.
How much time would it require to mobilize 21 Soviet divisions? A total of 450,000 troops. With all the logistics needed to invade Finland across the 1100 km border, to occupy all the way to the capital Helsinki.
There is a lot of logistics needed to supply 450,000 troops with munitions, fuel, field hospitals, and food. Therefore, the decision to invade across the border from the Gulf of Finland to the Arctic Sea was in the making for a considerable time. It was not what the Soviets claimed at the time, a reaction to Finland’s aggression.
The highest populated region of Finland, in the path of the Soviet Union military invasion, was the Karelian Isthmus land bridge. The region was populated by 407,000 Karelians; they had to be evacuated at short notice and leave their family homes behind. Leaving behind their farms, stocks, and lifelong memories to escape from being annexed by the invading Soviet military forces crossing the Finland border from the Russian side.
The 407,000 War refugees from Karelia families were taken to safety away from the Soviet Russian invasion into the Finland interior. Early in December, many children were separated from their families and placed in foster care in the Scandinavian countries.
During the 1939-40 Winter War and Continuation War in 1941-44, nearly 80,000 children transferred to Sweden, Denmark, and Norway.
About 72,000 children were taken to or left in Sweden, 4 200 in Denmark, and about one hundred children and mothers in Norway.
About 15,500 of them did not return to Finland; they were adopted by the families that had fostered them. The initial Winter War that started in November 1939 and ended in March 1940 only lasted three months (104 days). Many of the children returned home to Finland in 1940 once the threat of war was over.
RESETTLEMENT FROM SOVIET EXTORTION
The Finland Karelia region, where the 407,000 Karelian Finns had evacuated from, had to be re-settled in Finland. It was a large-scale operation to organize and manage, primarily because of the winter season. November to March is mid-winter, the Nordic land is covered in snow and ice, and extremely cold. War refugee families by the thousands had to be found accommodation hastily, in whatever building was available at the time, within a short notice.
Temporary accommodation at schools and community halls, later to be moved to rural communities sharing housing. Many people lived in small quarters that had to be made available for sharing with many other peoples, and at times families, parents, or grandparents.
During the winter of 1939 to 1940, re-accommodating hastily evacuated 407,000 war refugees was a tall challenge during the cold winter. It was a double inconvenience to the innocent peoples, extraordinarily shattering, depressing, and annoying as if life was not challenging enough without some megalomaniac despot dictator creating extra burdens on the honest, hard-working peoples and their families of the land.
It started on November 30, with Christmas, and all the family time celebrations, gifts, and delicious homemade foods, only three weeks away. How could anybody be such a moron? He would have to be an unspiritual pagan, unbelieving atheist, that was totally uncivilized, and most likely illiterate, that had never read the Good News of the Gospel story.
Imagine that, to plan and start a war across 1100 km border, with 450,000 troops, the war against peace, with only three weeks to Christmas? It was a well-planned, diabolically inspired strategic move to hit the people hardest, where it hurts the most, at home, and the families.
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