Regional1939

Battle of Suomussalmi

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Finland

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Suomussalmi (1939), part of the Russo-Finnish War. Finland defeated USSR.

Belligerents2

Finland
Soviet Union

ON THE MAPSoviet Union (interwar)

Conflict graph

PART OFWinter War

Sources

HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)

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