<prompt> Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Finlands foreign policy before this deal had been varied: independence from Imperial Russia with support of Imperial Germany in 1917; participation in the Russian Civil War without official declaration of war alongside the Triple Entente 19181920; a non-ratified alliance with Poland in 1922; association with the neutralist and democratic Scandinavian countries in the 1930s ended by the Winter War 1939 which Finland lost against the Soviet Union; and finally in 1940, a rapprochement with Nazi Germany, the only power able and willing to help Finland against the expansionist Soviet Union, which led to Finlands  <response>: kupindazve muHondo Yenyika II muna 1941. 