Video: 'The Soviets Finish a Costly Winter War - WW2 - 029 - March 16 1940'

(Wednesday, March 13, 1940, 11:00 a.m. Eastern European Time; during the Winter War, part of World War II) — The 105-day Winter War, a war between the Soviet Union (USSR) and Finland, ended today after both sides signed the Moscow Peace Treaty, which gave Russia 16,000 square miles of Finnish territory.

According to revised estimates in 2005 by Finnish historians, 25,904 people died or went missing and 43,557 were wounded on the Finnish side during the war.

In 2013, historian Pavel Petrov stated that the Russian State Military Archive has a database confirming 167,976 Soviets killed or missing. As many as 207,538 were wounded.

Video: 'The World At War 1973(World War II Documentary) 02.Distant War (September 1939 – May 1940)' (Winter War ends at 34:35)