Over the next few days, Lyon took a good tour of the western regions of the Soviet Union.

If someone pays attention to the places in Lyon, they will find that the scenery of the places in Lyon may not be very good, but they are all places that are very important in terms of geographical location, such as transportation hubs, in the words of an old Chinese saying, which places are "battlegrounds", and Lyon does not stay in one place for more, usually after a few glances and then change places.

It stands to reason that Lyon's strange behavior should be easily noticed, but unfortunately this is the Soviet Union in 1938, and a few of the smarter people died at the hands of Stalin, so although some people feel strange, they don't think much about it, and they just think that Lyon's fetish is more special.

Lyon, who had seen a lot of things to rush with his own eyes, had a lot of ideas, and he returned to Moscow with a full head of ideas and wrote them down, intending to discuss them with Manstein and other professionals after returning home, and the Soviets also discussed the question of "whether to dine with Germany" not long after Lyon's return to Moscow.

Kremlin conference room.

"Mr. Lyon, I think that on the Polish question, the position of our friends in the USSR and in Germany is the same." Stalin said solemnly to Leon, "We also believe that this problem should be completely solved." ”

"I knew that Mr. Stalin would agree, to paraphrase an old Chinese saying, 'Heroes see the same thing.'" Leon and Stalin shook hands, and then they looked at each other and laughed at the same time.

After reaching a consensus, the next thing to do is very simple, the two sides happily discussed how to divide, the time to divide and so on, and they were happy.

In addition to signing the Entente for the partition of Poland, Lyon and Stalin also recalled the eventful years when the two countries had walked side by side in the past, and finally at Lyon's suggestion, the two countries also signed a "Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact", as if the relationship between the two countries had returned to the original honeymoon period because of the plot to partition Poland.

However, in fact, the psychology of the two people is very clear, there are no permanent friends, only eternal interests, and after the partition of Poland, the common enemy, the relations between the two countries may not be what will become like, and this "Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact" is just to delay time.

After signing a treaty of partition with the Soviet Union, Lyon was invited by one of the Soviet Union's neighbors to negotiate an alliance with them.

The name of this small country is Finland.

Relations between Finland and the Soviet Union were not as tense as those between the Soviet Union and Germany, and their relations with the Soviet Union were feuding, and the reason for the tension between the two countries began with the founding of Finland.

Finland was the eastern territory of the Kingdom of Sweden from the 17th century until the Northern War broke out in 1700, when Sweden was defeated by the emerging Russian Empire and its position of power was replaced by the latter.

In 1809, Russia sent another army against Sweden to protect the security of its capital, St. Petersburg, and the Finnish War broke out. Russia won the war again, obtained large territorial reparations, and created the Grand Duchy of Finland, a buffer state between Sweden and Russia, and Tsar Alexander I gave the Finns a considerable degree of autonomy in order to appease them, which was one of the reasons for Finland's independence.

By the end of the 19th century, due to the rise of nationalism and pan-Slavism, Tsar Alexander III took back Finland's autonomy and "Russified" the Finns, linguistically and politically assimilated, and strengthened the center of the empire.

Although this policy eventually failed due to the conflict within Russia, it had seriously damaged Russian-Finnish relations, and Finnish intellectuals felt that their culture was under threat, and their sense of independence was greatly enhanced.

In August 1914, World War I broke out and the Russian Empire finally collapsed with the October Revolution, giving Finland a rare chance at independence.

On December 6, 1917, just as the central government of the Russian Empire was in turmoil, the Finnish Senate officially declared Finland's independence. At that time, the nascent Soviet government was discussing the possibility of an armistice with Germany, and Lenin, the leader of the former agreed in principle to Finnish independence in consultation with the Finnish representatives, but in fact planned behind his scenes to form a workers' government to replace the current regime and reintegrate Finland into the Soviet Union as a member state.

Lenin proved to be a true man of action, not just talking the talk, and just three weeks after Finland declared independence, the Soviet Union had already organized a new Finnish government.

The Finns, of course, did not sit idly by and watch their hard-won independence go down the drain again, and they formed the White Army to fight the Finnish Red Army, which was under Soviet control.

On January 27, 1918, the Finnish Civil War broke out between the Finnish Red Army and the White Army, which was supported by the Soviet Union, and General Gustav Mannerheim, the leader of the White Army, who had died abroad, returned to command the civil war.

In order to isolate Russia, the Second German Reich approached the White Army at the height of the Finnish Civil War and promised them military assistance, but on the condition that Finland sided with Germany.

Although Mannerheim believed that receiving German aid would bring his country under German control, other officials had already gone to negotiate on their own and signed a rather unfavorable agreement on their own, so Mannerheim had no choice but to accede to the German demands.

Thanks to strong German support, the bloody civil war ended with the victory of the White Army, which took control of the entire territory in May 1918, and the remnants of the Red Army and Communists were imprisoned, killed, or fled to the Soviet Union.

However, at this time, Finland had been strongly influenced by Germany's economy and military, and even decided to make Prince Vaino I of Germany the king of Finland, but the Second German Reich finally surrendered in November of the same year due to the defeat of the war on the Western Front, resulting in all its achievements in the Baltic region were forced to be abandoned, and Finland completely gained independence.

On February 2, 1920, Finland and the Soviet Union signed the Treaty of Tartu in Estonia to demarcate the border between the two countries. The southern Karelian Isthmus borders only 32 kilometers from Leningrad, the second largest city in the Soviet Union and the former capital, and the northern and eastern borders have been beyond the time of the Grand Duchy, bordering the Arctic Ocean and the ice-free port of the Arctic Circle.

After the situation stabilized, the more the Soviet Union thought about it, the more it felt that it was at a loss, especially because the geographical location of Leningrad was too dangerous, so the Soviet Union kept coercing and inducing Finland to give them a piece of territory to ensure the security of Leningrad.

Finland finally took advantage of it, where is it willing to spit out the meat to the mouth? However, he couldn't defeat the big guy of the Soviet Union, so he had to cooperate on the surface and kept negotiating with the Soviet Union, but in fact he was very tough and refused to agree to the Soviet Union's demands.

The two sides have been grinding their tongues like this until now, and the patience of the Soviet Union has almost run out, and they have gathered a large number of troops on the Soviet-Finnish border, trying to give Finland a hard time, Finland is very afraid, so they have to look internationally to seek allies, and Germany, which has helped them, is obviously a good ally.