Shelling of Mainila

When

26 Nov 1939

Kind

Event

Coordinates

60.25° N, 29.85° E

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Shelling of Mainila.

Shelling of Mainila: The Soviet Union's Red Army shells the Russian village of Mainila, then claims that the fire originated from Finland, giving a casus belli for the Winter War.

1939 false flag attack by the Soviet Union against Finland, leading to the Winter War

The Shelling of Mainila, or the Mainila incident, was a military incident on 26 November 1939 in which the Soviet Union's Red Army shelled the Soviet border village of Mainila near Beloostrov. The Soviet Union declared that the fire originated from Finland across the nearby border and claimed to have had losses in personnel.

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• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “СССР заявил о провокации со стороны финских пограничников в районе деревни Майнила, что стало поводом для объявления войны Финляндии”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page