Finland made a separate peace contract with the Soviet Union on 19 September 1944, and was the only bordering country of USSR in Europe (alongside Norway, which has only gained its own border with the Soviet Union after the war) that kept its independence after the war.
Finland undertegnede en separat fredsaftale med Sovjetunionen 19. september 1944 og blev det eneste europæiske land (sammen med Norge), der grænsede op til Sovjetunionen og beholdt sin frihed efter krigen.