On November 30, 1939, half a million soldiers from the Soviet Union marched north and swarmed their Baltic Sea neighbor Finland. This unpopular move by Joseph Stalin which is called "The Winter War" was an attempt to assert their influence within the region.
With this the Finns were expected to concede within a few weeks against their adversaries who were equipped with tanks, machine guns and bombs. However, there was this battle where the Finns came out victorious because of an unlikely ally, a sausage.
It is called "The Battle Of Varolampi Pond" but since the unlikely hero here were sausages it is more known as "Sausage War".
The night was freezing on December 10, 1939, when the starving 718th Rifle Regiment of the Soviet Army swung around and overran the lightly defended Finns supply line and artillery from the rear at the Valorampi Pond.
However, the attack only saw initial success. The Soviets who were fresh from 5 days of forced marching were exhausted and hungry. When the Soviets ran over the cooking tents they saw the fat heavy sausage stew designed specially to keep the Finns soldiers fighting in the cold.
The Soviets paused their attack momentarily to fill up their crumbling stomach. This pause in the attack was taken as an opportunity by the Finns to launch a counter offensive. The Battle was a bloodbath and lasted well into the night.
By dawn of the following day the counter-attack successfully driven away the enemy inflicting heavy casualties with 100 dead Soviets left on the field. There are 20 dead on the Finns side.
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