Finland

A sign left by German Soldiers as they were evacuating Finnish territory in October 1944. The sign reads “As thanks for not demonstrating brotherhood in arms”. You could speculate that they had left some ‘gifts’ for the Finns there. Finland and Germany had been fighting together against the Soviet Union …

Soldiers of the Finnish army are pictured using a captured Soviet ROKS-2 flamethrower during training exercises. The ROKS-2 was designed so it could not be identified as a flamethrower by the enemy – the gas and fuel tanks were camouflaged to resemble a backpack, while the flame projector imitated a …

A Finnish soldier carrying a Molotov Cocktail during the Soviet – Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940. While the Molotov Cocktail is known by most to be a Russian invention, fact is that it had been used in the Spanish civil war in the 1930s, and arguably even before that. What’s …