The Soviet Union claimed parts of Finnish territory mainly to create a buffer against a German attack as the Finnish border ...

Schwendemann, Heinrich, Die wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit zwischen dem Deutschen Reich und der Sowjetunion von 1939 bis 1941: Alternative zu Hitlers Ostprogramm (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1993).

How did Stalin get away with murder? Stalin’s name meant "man of steel" and he lived up to it. He oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and was the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union ...