To: Homer_J_Simpson
Karelian Isthmus-30 November 1939: The 1st line is the Delaying line, the 2nd is the Mannerhiem Line. Note the road network behind the Finnish positions, and the lack of good roads behind the Soviets at the Mannerheim Line.
18 posted on
11/30/2009 10:11:40 AM PST by
tcrlaf
("Hope" is the most Evil of all Evils"-Neitzsche)
To: tcrlaf
Note the road network behind the Finnish positions, and the lack of good roads behind the Soviets at the Mannerheim Line.I don't know - It looks to me like the Russians have as least as many roads available as the Finns do. What am I missing?
19 posted on
11/30/2009 10:20:15 AM PST by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: tcrlaf
Note the road network behind the Finnish positions, and the lack of good roads behind the Soviets at the Mannerheim Line.
More likely the mapmaker didn't have access to any information about roads on the Soviet side of the border. The Soviets always regarded maps as state secrets.
Only after the U.S had used satellites for mapping the USSR did it have accurate maps of the Soviet Union.
36 posted on
12/01/2009 10:36:59 AM PST by
Cheburashka
("Allahu Akbar!" translates as "Kill me and stuff bacon in my mouth!")
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