Mainila incident
The shelling of mainila was one of the Red Army under false flag fake Finnish attack on a Soviet village and the casus belli for the Soviet - Finnish Winter War .
On November 26, 1939, the artillery of the Red Army shelled the Soviet border town Mainila ( Russian Майнило ), with four soldiers allegedly killed on the Soviet side. They also demanded the immediate withdrawal of Finnish troops from the border. The Soviet Union terminated the existing non-aggression pact of 1932 on November 28 , broke off diplomatic relations with Finland on November 29, 1939, and declared war on Finland a day later. According to Finnish investigations, however, the Soviet artillery itself fired the seven shells at the village of Mainila.
literature
- William R. Trotter: The Winter was: The Russo-Finnish War of 1939-1940. ISBN 1-85410-881-6 .
Coordinates: 60 ° 15 ' N , 29 ° 51' E