DISINFO: Finland provoked the war against Soviet Union in 1939, Soviet leadership stated
SUMMARY
On 26th November, 1939 at 15 hours 45 minutes, Soviet troops located near the village Mainila, at the border with Finland were unexpectedly fired by [Finnish] artillery fire. A total of seven shots were fired. As a result, three soldiers and one junior commander were killed. Seven soldiers and two commanders were injured. The Soviet government informed the Finnish side with a note. Finland answered with their own note and stated that the fire originated in the Soviet territory – Finnish boarder guards did not possess the weapons to do that. Moscow was not satisfied and called its diplomats from Finland. In the morning November 30 the Red Army crossed the Finnish border. The war started.
RESPONSE
It is an undisputed historical fact that the shelling of Mainila was a false flag operation by the Soviet Union. It gave the USSR a pretext to launch the Winter War. Later, Russia has admitted setting up the incident. At a meeting with Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari in Moscow in 1994, Russian President Boris Yeltsin stated that the seizure of Finnish territory was an example of Stalin’s totalitarian and aggressive politics. Read more on the Finland's Ministry of Defence website.