Welcome to AirNmenky's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

Nobody likes an overachiever?

Someone who shows up everyone else by going above and beyond the call of duty, they breed

resentment and pettiness among those who are comfortable with things being good enough.

But not Aimo Coivunin.

He went above and beyond what most people accomplished, but nobody hated him for it.

They loved him.

He was a hero.

Coivunin was born in Finland in 1917, eventually joining the military to fight the Soviet Union

30 years later.

In 1939, the Soviets invaded Finland in what was called the Winter War.

After a year of fighting, followed by the signing of a peace treaty between the two sides,

the Soviets had taken 11% of the country for itself.

Finish soldiers saw a chance to get their territory back the following year as Hitler's

German soldiers moved in.

They joined forces with the Nazis, though they wanted no part in the Holocaust.

All they wanted was their land back.

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