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Music Hello everyone and welcome to history of the Second World War.

Episode 150 The Winter War Part 8, The End.

This week, a big thank you goes out to Garth, Evan, Luis, Mark, Josh, Sergio, Stephen,

Dustin, Shannon, and Zizi for choosing to become members. You can find out more at

History of the Second World War.com slash members. The last episode covered some of the ways

that the Red Army began to take the fighting against Finland far more seriously by bringing in a new commander, Tammachenko, and reworking their

general plans to take better advantage of the Soviet advantages in material.

Along with this change, near the end of January, the Soviet leaders would change their

diplomatic tactics, with Molotov beginning diplomatic

conversations with the Finnish government by using the Swedish government as an intermediary.

A key point of compromise from Molotov to start off this round of discussions was a clear

and unambiguous recognition of the legitimate Finnish government instead of the

communist government that had been set up early in the Soviet invasion.

This was the only position that Molotov could take if he wanted any realistic chance

of a diplomatic end to the war, and it would work.

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