[justify] For Soviet people, one hundred and five days of war on the Karelian Isthmus were, perhaps, always "not famous." And in the thirty-ninth - fortieth, when operational reports on battles in newspapers and on the radio were published on behalf of the headquarters of the Leningrad Military District to emphasize the locality of the conflict. And in the sixties, when the academic "Brief World History" devoted two and a half paragraphs to the "winter war," two of which are devoted to describing the "feverish preparation of the ruling circles of England France for an attack on the USSR." Because of this, it happened that, although quite a lot was written about the "Finnish war" in the Soviet Union, it is rather difficult to imagine its significance, connection with other events of that time, a place in the history of World War II.