shelling of mainila造句

• The Soviets staged the shelling of Mainila and used it as a pretext to withdraw from the interim peace.
• The authors revive Soviet views, and for example are not sure which party started the Shelling of Mainila.
• On November 26, the Soviet Union staged the shelling of Mainila near the border, accused Finnish troops of the provocation and requesting their withdrawal.
• In November 1939, the Soviet Union staged the Shelling of Mainila and invaded Finland in what became known as the Winter War, which took a disproportionally heavy death toll on the Red Army.
• On 26 November, the Soviets staged the shelling of Mainila, an incident in which Soviet artillery shelled area near the Russian village of Mainila and then announced that a Finnish artillery attack had killed Soviet soldiers.
• The Mukden incident and the shelling of Mainila are World War II examples of governments making false statements in order claim a casus belli; the Gulf of Tonkin incident similarly led Congress to give Lyndon Johnson the authorization to wage war in southeast Asia.
• The Soviet diplomat and KGB-agent in Helsinki Viktor Vladimirov wrote " Kohti talvisotaa " in 1995, a book in which he admitted that the Shelling of Mainila was a Soviet provocation, but insisted that the Finns had an assault plan against the Soviet Union; that Finland was under German influence; and that the Winter War was necessary to secure the city of Leningrad.