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🇫🇮 Finnish Border Guard Mikko Kallionpää shot the first Russian of the Winter War and he shot the first German of the Lapland War. #Talvisota 
Mikko Kallionpää served in Finnish Border Guard in 1939. He served in Inari guard post, particular area Red Army crossed Finnish - Soviet border in first day of Winter War 30th of November 1939. One of Finnish border guards of the particular guard post spotted the Soviets
crossing the border. Kallionpää and few other border guards were sent to see, if the Soviets were crossing the border and run into, what were presumably the scouts in front of the advancing battalion. A Soviet soldier run right in front of him and
Exactly 83 years ago Soviet Union launched its invasion of Finland, that would later be known as the #WinterWar.
105 days of brutal fighting would follow and result in USSR capturing barely enough land to bury their 126k dead soldiers.
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105 days of brutal fighting would follow and result in USSR capturing barely enough land to bury their 126k dead soldiers.
#Talvisota
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🇫🇮 First shot of the #WinterWar. #OTD 5:30am on the morning of 30 November 1939, Finnish Border Guard Kallionpää returned from a night-time patrol to his station at Pielisjärvi, Karelia. He had just started sipping a cup of coffee when a report was received that a column of
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Soviet soldiers had been seen crossing the border. Kallionpää and fellow Border Guard Moiseinen were ordered to carry out reconnaissance to determine if it was a Soviet incursion. They had gone only a 1km when they sighted Soviet troops advancing in close formation. #Talvisota
Kallionpää returned to base with the news. At 6:30, Kallionpää made out a figure following the tracks he’d left in the snow, pausing to aim a rifle here and there in the still-dark forest. When the figure was within 30 metres, Kallionpää could see the greatcoat and cap that
81 years ago today the Winter War between Finland and Soviet Union ended. Finland paid heavily for the peace, but the sacrifice saved the nation from a genocide in Stalin's hands.
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Saving a nation takes everyone's effort. Men and women put their hearts into saving Finland from the Soviet hordes.
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