The Winter War. A military conflict between the Soviet union and Finland. It began with a Soviet invasion on november 1939 when Soviet infantery crossed the border on the Karelian Isthmus. About 9500 Swedish volunteer soldiers participated in the war. Rovaniemi, North Finland. Here American journalist Walter Kerr. 1912-2003. Became a foreign correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune and was in Prague when the Nazis invaded 1938 and in Paris when the German army entered in June 1940. At this