Soviet–Finnish Non-Aggression Pact

The Soviet- Finnish non- aggression pact was an international treaty between the Soviet Union and Finland, which was signed in 1932 between representatives of the two States. He saw the waiver prior to the mutual attack and was withdrawn unilaterally by the Soviet Union on 28 November 1939. Two days later the Soviet attack on Finland began. The Soviet Union had after the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, a number of non-aggression treaties with neighboring countries closed to secure their borders. When was the pact with Finland on January 21, closed in 1932, it had already reached an agreement with Poland, Estonia and Lithuania. The signatories were the Finnish Foreign Minister Yrjö - Koskinen Aarno and the Soviet ambassador Ivan Mikhailovich Maisky in Helsinki. However, the pact with Finland was the first to be ratified ( in July 1932). The pact was renewed in Moscow on April 7, 1934 to December 31, 1945.

After the Soviet Union had reached an agreement with the German Empire in the German -Soviet non-aggression pact on the division of Eastern Europe, the Soviet dictator Stalin began with the preparation of an attack on Finland. The Soviets staged a false flag operation under bombarded a separate village and accused Finland responsible for the fire to have been (so-called Mainila incident ) On November 28, 1939 revoked the Soviet Union unilaterally the pact. Finland wanted to investigate the incident in Mainila by an independent commission. The Soviet Union refused and attacked Finland two days later on.