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Dark Alley Dan said:
Some serious lookin' Finns, Summer, 1944:

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If you were fighting as hard as they were you'd look just as serious.
 
Light Infantry said:
Killing Russians is serious business and there were a lot to (and were) kill(ed).
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Nikita Khrushchev, in his memoirs, figured around a million were lost on the Winter War alone. The Soviets, of course, put the figures much, much lower. They put the figure at: Dead or missing around 125,000. In those days, you would have needed to go outside to check if the Communists said it was daylight.

Edit: No different these days. At least we know now that whatever a commie says, there is a 99% chance it is BS.
 
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Shooting "straw men" with wooden bullets .... ?

We read a lot about the Finns being stalwart soldiers in their fight against the Russians, lying for hours in the snow to rise on signal and attack in blinding snowstorms.
Back in the '70's, I knew a couple of Scandinavians, she a Swede, he a Finn. Their marriage was troubled as he was apparently introduced to a homosexual element in the Finnish Army. He had several photographs of him with his adoring comrades, his wife referring to her husband as their "little pet|".

He was taking counselling to unconvert him, but it wasn't taking hold. Through them, I met another Finnish couple who were experiencing the same problem. Both wives blamed rampant homosexuality in the Finnish Army for the problem as neither man was known to exhibit such tendencies in civilian life.

This is not a homophobic rant, just an interesting sidebar.
 
Light Infantry said:
Killing Russians is serious business and there were a lot to (and were) kill(ed).
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kjohn said:
Nikita Khrushchev, in his memoirs, figured around a million were lost on the Winter War alone. The Soviets, of course, put the figures much, much lower. They put the figure at: Dead or missing around 125,000. In those days, you would have needed to go outside to check if the Communists said it was daylight.

Edit: No different these days. At least we know now that whatever a commie says, there is a 99% chance it is BS.
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My grandpa was on that war , he was red army gunner first lieutenant in 1939 , it was a hard time , he was wounded by finish sniper right in the top of hiss skull , after that , he passed whole WW2 without any damage and finish his war in far east at pacific ocean fighting with japanese army in China .
There was a point of this war , cause that time Finland was ally with nazi Germany and the boarder was just 20 km away from Leningrad (St.Petersburg , former capital of Russian Empire ) In the beginning soviets suggest to Finland to move board 100 km away from Leningrad , for that they promised to give 2 times more territory upnorth , finns reject this offer . After that soviet made provocation on the border territory and starts that war .
 
Glad your Grandpa made it through the war with his hide mostly intact, Eugene. Sounds like he was a very lucky man.

I'd always heard the Soviet invasion of Finland was a baldly aggressive move by Stalin et. al. Hadn't heard about it as a defensive move, nor anything about a land exchange. Are there any sources I could read to learn more about this?
 
Dark Alley Dan said:
Glad your Grandpa made it through the war with his hide mostly intact, Eugene. Sounds like he was a very lucky man.

I'd always heard the Soviet invasion of Finland was a baldly aggressive move by Stalin et. al. Hadn't heard about it as a defensive move, nor anything about a land exchange. Are there any sources I could read to learn more about this?
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it was an aggressive move, the soviets wanted the land near leningrad, worth 30% of the finnish economy, and offered more (but less valuable) land in exchange. the finns refused and so it began. the finns didnt have any signifigant ties to the nazis until the war started, it was actually france and britain who offered the most help.

try wikipedia
 
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