Soviet/NATO invasion of Finland

The Soviet plan


Whist this was unlikely it was still a possibility if Finland fell out with the USSR. Finland was terrified of a repeat of the Winter War of 1939-1940. It was a military conflict between the Soviet Union and Finland in 1939–1940. It began with the Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939, and ended with the Moscow Peace Treaty on 13 March 1940. Finland joined forces Nazi Germany in 1941 as a bid to regain lost territory like Petsamo, only to find it's self on the losing side. The Soviet Union had leased the port of Porkkala for it's navy to use between 1940 and 1955.

Finland survived the cold war as a pseudo-neutral nation that was covertly in the pay of the USSR. They were allowed to be freer that the offical Soviet satellite states like Poland and could help their fellow Scandinavian nations in non-NATO/Warsaw Pact related affairs. Finnish pseudo-neutrality enraged America.

Some Soviet Backfire bombers armed with a nuclear capable cruise missiles flew over the region in later years of the Cold War and were intercepted and escorted out of NATO airspace by NATO's Baltic Air Policing Unit.

By what I can ascertain, if war had come there would have been a navel assault on the south and a block bombing campaign in the region ahead of a lad assault across the entire Finnish border. Heavy bombing would also hit Oulu prior to it's invasion by both sea and across land from Karelia in the USSR. Some northern locations like Kittilä municipality would be taken by airborne troops to help encircle the Norwegian province of Finnmark.

After the USSR fell in 1991, Finland moved clearly into the Western geopolitical sphere by joining both the European Union and the Eurozone, but it has never made any attempts to get into NATO so far due to Russian fears over NATO exspantion.

The Swedish plan
By what I can gather it proud be heavy bombing of Soviet units around Oulu prior to it's invasion by the Sweden by both sea and air with the aim of setting up a safe zone for a pro-Western or strictly neutral Finnish rump state.

The NATO plan
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Also see-

 * 1) http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2011/06/world-war-ii-the-invasion-of-poland-and-the-winter-war/100094/
 * 2) http://coldwarsites.net/country/finland/
 * 3) http://www.vox.com/2014/8/29/6083849/russia-finland-airspace-nato-membership
 * 4) https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=IZRrt6zMtVMC&pg=PA40&lpg=PA40&dq=Cold+war+soviet+invasion+of+finland&source=bl&ots=2fCraooDHH&sig=p5IHzLDLtqYgEt7zS2yYImCbbYo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=kOTWVOGgMaWr7AaGo4GQBQ&ved=0CF4Q6AEwDQ#v=onepage&q=Cold%20war%20soviet%20invasion%20of%20finland&f=false
 * 5) http://coldwarsites.net/country/sweden/