days later they were court-martialed, found guilty and sentenced to death; the executions were carried out immediately. The Stavka itself had made the crucial decisions to keep the 44th Division on the Raate Road after the 163rd had lost Suomussalmi village. A Ukrainian veteran of the Raate Road, Sergeant Pyotr Andrevich Morozov, was interviewed in 1991 by the Finnish non-fiction writer Leo Karttimo. According to Morozov the Finns returned prisoners of war, but none of them managed to get back to their homes as the Soviet secret service NKVD executed them all in summer 1940. Monuments Today, the former battlefield is the site of the Monument of the Winter War dedicated to all who died in the war on both sides. The memorial includes a field of thousands of stones as symbolic gravestones of the Soviet soldiers who fell in the battle. The Russian monument was installed in September 1994, and the Ukrainians installed their own monument in the spring of 1998. See also List of Finnish military equipment of World War II List of Soviet Union military equipment of World War II References Sources Winter War 1939-40: Finnish Soldier Versus Soviet Soldier by David Campbell External links Gallery of the Soviet and Finnish photographs The Monument of the Winter War website Historic article Ukrainian Talvisota: Unknown history of a Ukrainian Volunteer Regiment in the Finnish War 1940 in Finland Raate-Road History of Kainuu Suomussalmi January 1940 events