Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Zhdanov ya kasance a fili sosai tare da yanke shawarar mamaye Finland
a watan Nuwamba na shekara ta 1939. A watan Disamba, ya sanya hannu kan yarjejeniyar tsakanin Soviet da gwamnatin Finland a gudun hijira, wanda Otto Kuusinen ya jagoranta. A matsayinsa na shugaban jam'iyyar Leningrad da jami'in da ke kula da rundunar sojan ruwa, yana da sha'awar kara yawan sojojin Soviet a tekun Baltic a kan Finland, Estonia da Latvia. Yarjejeniyar zaman lafiya ta ƙarshe tsakanin Finland da Tarayyar Soviet ta sanya hannu kan Zhdanov a ranar 12 ga Maris, 1940.