Back in 1788, when the Finns were helping Sweden to fight the Russians, a Finnish woman named Lotta Svärd went to war along with her husband, and, after he was killed, stayed with the Army, ...

Stories about the Russo-Finnish war reached a new high for naïvete. The wildest tales, as usual, came from Copenhagen, where almost any rumor floating around Scandinavia is rushed into print, but ...