Finland

In the next few days, Lyon took a good tour of the western part of the Soviet Union.

If someone pays attention to the places where Lyon goes, they will find that the scenery in Lyon may not be very good, but they are all places with extremely important geographical locations, such as transportation hubs. In an old Chinese saying, which places are "The battle for the military", and Leon does not stay in one place too much, usually change places after a few glances.

It stands to reason that Lyon's bizarre move should be easily noticed by others. Unfortunately, this is the Soviet Union in 1938. A few smarter people died at Stalin's hands, so although some people feel strange, there are not many. Thinking, it's just a special hobby of Leon.

Lyon, who saw a lot of rushing points with his own eyes, came up with a lot of ideas. He returned to Moscow with full of ideas and wrote them down. After returning to China, he planned to discuss with professionals such as Manstein. The Soviet side is also in Lyon. Not long after returning to Moscow, the discussion on "dine with Germany or not" came to a conclusion.

Kremlin meeting room.

"Mr. Lyon, I think our Soviet and German friends have the same position on the Polish issue." Stalin said to Lyon solemnly, "We also believe that this trouble should be completely resolved."

"I knew Mr. Stalin would agree. To use an old Chinese saying, it's called 'Heroes see the same thing'." Leon and Stalin shook hands, then they looked at each other and laughed at the same time.

After the consensus was reached, the next thing to do was very simple. The two parties happily discussed how to divide up, the time to divide, and so on.

In addition to signing the pact to divide Poland, Lyon and Stalin also recalled the glorious years when the two countries walked side by side together. A "Soviet-German Non-aggression Pact", as if the relationship between the two countries returned to the original honeymoon period because of the plot to divide Poland.

But in fact, the two of them are very clear in their psychology. There are no permanent friends, only permanent interests. After the common enemy of Poland is divided up, the relationship between the two countries is uncertain. The Treaty is just a matter of dragging time.

After signing a partition treaty with the Soviet Union, Lyon was invited by a neighboring country of the Soviet Union to go to their country to negotiate an alliance.

The name of this small country is Finland.

The relationship between Finland and the Soviet Union is not just tense like the Soviet Union and Germany. Their relationship with the Soviet Union can be described as a feud, and the reason for the tension between the two countries has to start with the founding of Finland.

Finland has been an eastern territory of the Kingdom of Sweden since the 17th century, until the outbreak of the Northern War in 1700, when Sweden was defeated by the emerging Russian Empire, and its power position was replaced by the latter.

In 1809, in order to protect the security of its capital St. Petersburg, Russia sent troops to Sweden again, and the Finnish War broke out. In this war, Russia won again, won a large area of ​​territorial compensation, created the Grand Duchy of Finland, which was a buffer state between Sweden and Russia. In order to appease the Finns, Tsar Alexander I gave them a fairly high degree of autonomy, which was also the independence of Finland later. one reason.

By the end of the 19th century, due to the rise of nationalism and the upsurge of Pan-Slavism, Tsar Alexander III took back Finland's autonomy, implemented "Russification" of the Finns, assimilated the language and politics, and enhanced the strength of the imperial center.

Although this policy eventually failed due to internal conflict in Russia, it has seriously damaged the relationship between Russia and Finland. Finnish intellectuals are also deeply aware of the threat to their own culture, and their sense of independence has been greatly enhanced.

In August 1914, World War I broke out and the Russian Empire finally collapsed due to the October Revolution, giving Finland a rare opportunity for independence.

On December 6, 1917, while the central government of the Russian Empire was in chaos, the government, the Finnish Senate, officially declared Finland's independence. At that time, the nascent Soviet government was discussing the possibility of a truce with Germany. The former leader, Lenin, negotiated with the representatives of Finland, and agreed in principle to the independence of Finland, but in fact, it was secretly planning to organize a workers' government to replace the current regime and replace Finland with the Reincorporation into the Soviet Union in the form of a confederate state.

Facts have proved that Lenin is a real activist, not just talking and doing. Only three weeks after Finland declared independence, the Soviet Union has organized a new Finnish government.

Of course, the Finns would not sit back and watch the hard-fought independent Chen Guo go to waste. They formed the White Army to fight against the Finnish Red Army under Soviet control.

On January 27, 1918, the Finnish Red Army and the White Army with the support of the Soviet Union officially broke out the Finnish Civil War.

To isolate Russia, the German Second Reich at the time approached the Whites when the Finnish civil war was raging, promising them military aid, but only on the condition that Finland would stand by Germany.

Although Mannerheim believed that receiving German aid would bring the country under German control, other officials had gone to negotiate on their own and signed a rather unfavorable agreement without authorization, so Mannerheim had to agree to Germany's request.

Thanks to strong German support, the bloody civil war ended in victory for the White Army, which took control of the country's territory in May 1918, and the remnants of the Red Army and Communists were imprisoned, killed or fled to the Soviet Union for refuge.

However, Finland at this time had been strongly influenced by Germany's economy and military, and even decided to make Prince Vaino I the king of Finland, but the Second German Empire finally failed in the war on the Western Front and surrendered in November of the same year. As a result, all its achievements in the Baltic Sea region were forced to give up, and Finland was completely independent.

On February 2, 1920, Finland and the Soviet Union signed the "Taltu Treaty" in Tartu, Estonia to divide the border between the two countries. Since the Soviet Union was still engaged in the Soviet-Polish war with Poland at this time, Finland. A huge advantage has been achieved in the demarcation of national borders. Among them, the border of the Karelian Isthmus in the south is only 32 kilometers away from Leningrad, the second largest city in the Soviet Union and the former capital. - Bechamo.

After the situation stabilized in the Soviet Union, the more they thought about it, the more they felt at a loss. In particular, the geographical location of Leningrad was too dangerous, so the Soviet Union had been coercing and enticing Finland to give them a piece of territory to ensure the safety of Leningrad.

Finland finally took advantage of it, where is it willing to spit out meat? But they couldn't beat the big man of the Soviet Union, so they had to cooperate on the surface and negotiated with the Soviet Union all the time.

The two sides have been grinding their lips like this until now. The patience of the Soviet Union is almost running out. They have assembled a large number of troops on the Soviet-Finnish border and want to punish Finland. Finland is very afraid, so they have to look internationally. Allies, and Germany, which had helped them, was clearly a good ally.