At the end of October 1942, the main force of the Soviet army had reached the capital of Finland, Helsinki. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The offensive, which lasted for more than two months, caused heavy losses to the Finnish army, and most of Finland fell into Soviet hands. The heavy casualties were irreparable losses for a sparsely populated country like Finland, but the Finnish government was slow to make the decision to surrender under the coercion of the Germans.

By the time the Germans made a request to move into Helsinki, Finnish President Rüti had realized the gravity of the situation. On the one hand, he sent people to make peace with the Soviet troops, and on the other hand, he tried to hold off the Germans and try to reach a ceasefire agreement with the Soviet troops before the German troops entered Helsinki.

The Finnish envoy soon began consultations with the Soviet government, and at first the negotiations went quite smoothly. But the Soviets demanded $600 million in reparations, disbanded the country's army, allowed Soviet troops to be stationed in Finland, ceded large swaths of land in the northwest, and leased the Hanko and Pokhara peninsulas to the Soviet Union.

In addition, the Soviet Union demanded that the Finnish government repeal all anti-communist laws, recognize the legal party status of the Communist Party of Finland, and publicly apologize for the suppression of the Communist Party and the "massacre" of the Russian volunteers during the Finnish Civil War.

Finnish President Risto Rüti did not agree to the Soviet Union's offer of reparations and land, but could not allow the Soviet Union to station troops in Finland and could not bear the consequences of Finland's disarmament.

In 1939, the Soviet Union also asked Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania to station troops in their countries. The three Baltic states capitulated in the face of Soviet power and finally agreed to the conditions put forward by the USSR.

Soon after, the Soviets massed in large numbers in the three Baltic states, and together with the troops stationed in the three Baltic states, quickly occupied Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, and eventually incorporated these three countries into the territory of the Soviet Union.

If the Finnish government accedes to the Soviet Union's demands, the Finnish army will be disarmed and the Soviets will be stationed in Finland. At that time, the disarmed Finland would be powerless in the face of the Soviet garrison, and the Soviets would occupy the whole of Finland in a very short time, and then annex Finland to the Soviet Union.

Risto Rüti was not willing to follow in the footsteps of the three Baltic states, and if he agreed to the Soviet Union's demands, his country would not be able to resist the Soviet invasion.

Eventually, the Finnish government rejected the Soviet Union's offer, while also acceding to the request for German troops to be stationed in Helsinki.

Subsequently, the German army sent two divisions to Helsinki, and the German Army Group North also launched an offensive in the direction of Leningrad and Pskov in the Soviet Union, pinning down the forces of the Soviet Northern Front and the Northwest Front, and slowing down the pace of the Soviet army's attack on Finland.

Army Group Center and Army Group South, on the other hand, did not risk attacking because the Soviets in front still had an absolute superiority in strength in order to preserve their only strength.

In addition to attacking the Soviet mainland, the German army in Norway also invested more than 10 divisions to attack the Soviet-occupied northern Finland and the Soviet mainland's Murmansk Oblast by land from the Norwegian county of Finnmark, so as to contain part of the Soviet army's forces in the areas around northern Finland and Murmansk Oblast, and prevent them from attacking southwestern Finland.

The German army's series of actions were still relatively effective, and they were already equipped with Daimler Leopard tanks, and in front of the Soviet T-34/85, their performance was not inferior, and their repeated attacks also achieved "better" results.

Of course, this "better" was only relative to the previous defeats, in fact, the German Army Group North did not break through the Manturov Line, and the German troops deployed in northern Norway did not gain much territory from the Soviets, nor did they inflict too many casualties on the Soviet troops.

Even if the German army was equipped with a new type of tank, it did not bring much help to the war situation, after all, the Daimler Leopard tank equipped by the German army was nothing in front of the T-44, IS-100, and IS-2 tanks of the Soviet army, and only the fate of being hung in front of the new tanks of the Soviet army.

Even so, the German Elephant/Ferdinand tank destroyers performed well, destroying several Soviet tanks, including the T-44, IS-100 and IS-2, but their role in the battle was limited due to their small numbers.

Moreover, the armor of the Ferdinand tank destroyer was still relatively weak, and it was easy to be destroyed by Soviet tanks and aircraft, and as a result, the German army also suffered a lot of losses after the First World War.

In any case, the repeated actions of the German army had achieved their strategic goal, successfully pinning down part of the forces of the Soviet Northern Front and the Soviet army in northern Finland, slowing down the pace of the Soviet attack on Finland, and buying a little time for the Finnish army and the German army in Finland.

However, this delay did not have much impact on the fate of Finland. At this time, the Republic of Finland was left with less than half of the south-western region.

The rest of the country is controlled by the "Democratic Republic of Finland". The "Democratic Republic of Finland" was in fact a puppet regime established by the Soviet Union on Finnish soil, led by Otto Wiemmović Kuusinen, a member of the Finnish Communist Party, with its actual capital in the northern Finnish city of Oulu.

This puppet regime established by the Soviet Union did not initially gain international recognition, and only the Soviet Union, Mongolia and Romania recognized the legitimacy of this regime. However, with the defeat of the Republic of Finland on the battlefield, the "Democratic Republic of Finland", which occupied most of Finland, has been recognized by the United States, the Republic of China, the United Kingdom, and the Free France.

Despite this, the Finnish regime, which has been recognized by many countries, has not been recognized by the Finnish people. Most of the Finnish people saw the nascent regime as a puppet of the Soviet Union (although it was) and Otto Kuusinen and other Finnish communists as traitors.

Some Finns even formed guerrilla units, using the hidden terrain of the forests as a cover, to carry out armed resistance in the territory of the Democratic Republic of Finland and assassinate Finnish communists.

However, the strength of these guerrillas was so weak that many of them did not even have guns, and even if they did, they did not necessarily have enough ammunition, and they were powerless in the face of the Soviet Red Army, which had sufficient weapons and ammunition.

As things stand, Finland's defeat is inevitable. But in this uncertain world, nothing is absolute.

Just like in 1920, when the Soviets attacked the city of Warsaw, who would have expected that the Soviets would be pushed back by the Poles? Now that the Soviets have slaughtered under the city of Helsinki, who can guarantee that this history will not repeat itself?