SOVIET PROPAGANDA STRATAGEM USED DURING THE "WINTER WAR" WITH FINLAND

The events of autumn 1939 – summer 1940, developed in accordance with the secret additional protocol of Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, maintain until now, in the attention of world and European consciousness the interest for historical truth, the causes and, especially, the consequences of the transaction between two dictators. In the past twenty-five years, historians and publicists from several countries analyzed from different perspectives, the Soviet-German pact, the secret additional protocol and, especially, the evolution of political and diplomatic events that led to the outbreak of the World War II [1]. Our study tries, in a frame summary, to throw light on the relations between the Soviet Union and Finland between the two world wars and, especially, on the wiles of propaganda used by Moscow during the genesis and in the course of the Soviet-Finnish winter war from 1939–1940