To: Homer_J_Simpson
Day 8 of the Winter War, December 7, 1939![](http://www.mil.fi/perustietoa/talvisota/images/19391207_a.jpg)
Lieutenant-Colonel Pajari takes command of the Finnish forces in the Tolvajärvi area.
Photo: SA-KUVA
Finnish troops repulse first Soviet offensive at Kollaa
- Taipale: by evening Finnish troops have beaten back the first Russian offensive.
- Ladoga Karelia: during the night Soviet troops achieve combat contact with the Finnish positions on the River Kollaanjoki.
- Ilomantsi: Finnish troops in the Ilomantsi sector fall back to Möhkö and overnight to Kallioniemi ferry. They begin a defensive action.
- Northern Finland: Commander-in-Chief Mannerheim reinforces the troops around Suomussalmi with sections of the 9th Division commanded by Colonel Siilasvuo.
- Soviet troops take the parish village at Suomussalmi.
- Ladoga Karelia: Finnish troops at Kollaa beat back the first Soviet offensive.
- Lieutenant-Colonel Pajari takes command of the Finnish forces in the Tolvajärvi area.Finnish troops launch active countermeasures.
- Northern Finland: the Russian 122nd Division launches its main offensive against Finnish positions on the Kairala parallel.The defending Finnish battalion cannot hold. The detachment pulls back to the parish village at Salla.
- The three largest American radio networks have sent their own correspondents to Helsinki.One is the journalist Warren Irving, who is sending a radio commentary from Helsinki to the USA.
11 posted on
12/07/2009 8:28:39 AM PST by
CougarGA7
(Just Say No to Fruitcake!)
To: CougarGA7; Homer_J_Simpson
Homer:
Lots of reading homework here today; isn’t finals week coming up?
Cougar: I sure can’t wait to see how that Soviet occupation of Suomussalmi works out for them.
You will also note how Stalin’s heavy-handed diplomacy toward Romania is driving that poor country into Hitler’s embrace. Romania was treated like dirt by the Germans, but the Romanians were grateful for it, the Germans having the insurmountable advantage of not being the Soviets.
12 posted on
12/07/2009 8:42:24 AM PST by
henkster
(0bamanomics: The "Final Solution" to America's "Prosperity Question.")
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