Life Line. How I Separated from Russia

Karl Mannerheim is one of the most famous politicians of the 20th century. Lieutenant General of the Russian Imperial Army, after the 1917 revolution, he fled to Finland, where he became the Field Marshal of the Finnish Army, and then the president of this country. Under the leadership of Mannerheim in Finland, a powerful defensive line, named after him, was built in the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939–1940. She significantly complicated the advance of the Red Army. During the Great Patriotic War, Finland opposed Germany against the USSR, but in 1944 concluded a peace agreement with the Soviet Union and began military operations against Germany. In his memoirs, Karl Mannerheim describes the service at the court of the last Russian emperor Nicholas II and in the Russian army, a revolution in Russia, difficult relations between Finland and the USSR in interwar times, the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940. and the war of Finland with the USSR in 1941-1944. Particular attention is paid to imperial aspirations of Russia and the USSR, as well as the place of Russia-SSR in European politics