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Originally Posted by Schroeder
It looks more and more to me that Finland started WWII because they were not giving the Soviets what they wanted which lead to a totally legal invasion by them. The Finns even dared to hinder that invasion with deadly force which shows that they were after war from day one.
Shame on you Finns! The world will not forget that! 
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25 January - DAY 57 of Winter War
Central Isthmus: an enemy detachment of company strength attempts another attack on the island of Suursaari in Lake Muolaanjärvi.
Ladoga Karelia: enemy pressure on the Finnish positions to the northeast of Lake Ladoga continues for the fifth day.
Eastern Isthmus: in the Taipale sector, Finnish troops repulse an attempted enemy assault in the early morning.
The Finnish 7th Division defending Taipale announces its overall losses since the beginning of the war: 37 officers and 779 men killed, and 40 officers and 1,980 men wounded.
Ladoga Karelia: the difficult situation causes the Commander-in-Chief to change Group Talvela's mission in the Tolvajärvi sector to allow it to adopt delaying tactics if necessary.
Enemy offensives on different fronts are successfully repulsed.
Elias Simojoki, a former Member of Parliament for the People's Patriotic Movement, is killed by an enemy bullet on the ice of Lake Ladoga as he is destroying an injured horse.
The voluntary defence organization Maan Turva is collecting musical instruments, games and books to entertain the patients in the military hospitals.
Abroad: the British aid fund for Finland has already collected over 100,000 pounds (about 25 million markkaa).
The Norwegian author Sigrid Undset is donating her 1928 Nobel Medal to Finland.
The French Academy expresses its warm sympathy for the Finnish people.
Daily losses: 127