Tuhia he tohutoro mō tēnei wāhanga - I te tau 1939 ka whakaekea e te Soviet Union a Finland e tīmata ana i te Pakanga o te Hotoke. Ko te Tiriti Hauora o Moscow o te tau 1940 i tuku i te haurua rawhiti o Finnish Karelia ki te Soviet Union. Tata ki te 400,000 tāngata, tata tonu ki te katoa o te iwi, i ārahi ki te noho i roto i a Finland. I te tau 1941 ka whakaekea e Finland te Soviet Union
i te taha o ngā mana Axis hei hoa whawhai. I whakahaerehia e te tari hoia Finnish i Eastern Karelia te rohe i te 1941-1944.