Sorry it’s so late. Haven’t had a lot of spare time today.
My Focus on the Winter War is the Battle of the Raate Road, which is part of the Battle of Suomussalmi, north of Lake Ladoga. This is where the Finns gained the reputation as ferocious soldiers.
Over the course of the next month, the small Finnish garrison here, made up mostly of local gaurdsman, and never numbering more than around 3,700, will totally destroy two complete frontline Soviet Division (163rd Infantry, 44th Motorized, 40,000 troops) including a fully modernized Motorized division from the Ukraine.
Survivors of the 44th Motorized (Just over 1,000) who returned to the Soviet Union after the armistace, will be executed by the NKVD to hide the scale of the defeat.
I'm just glad you are able to post them, whenever it happens. I was too busy to read it earlier anyway. But your posts are always rewarding when I do get to them.