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To: Bratch

So he was with the Nazi’s before he was against them? He sounds confused.


15 posted on 09/08/2012 10:18:07 AM PDT by 03A3
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To: 03A3

He fought the Sovs with the Finns when the Sovs and Nazis were allied.


18 posted on 09/08/2012 10:25:03 AM PDT by xone
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To: 03A3; All
from Encyclopedic Britannic
Russo-Finnish War, also called Winter War, World War II:

Russian bombing of Helsinki, capital of Finland, 1939 [Credit: Stock footage courtesy The WPA Film Library](Nov. 30, 1939–March 12, 1940), war waged by the Soviet Union against Finland at the beginning of World War II, following the conclusion of the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact (Aug. 23, 1939).

After Finland had refused to grant the Soviets a naval base and other concessions in the fall of 1939, Soviet troops totaling about one million men attacked Finland on several fronts. The heavily outnumbered Finns put up a skillful and effective defense that winter, and the Red Army made little progress.
they got stomped badly..the Army was still suffering from the Stalinist Purges of the 1930s..THE GREAT TERROR.

In February 1940, however, the Soviets used massive artillery bombardments to breach the Mannerheim Line (the Finns’ southern defensive barrier stretching across the Karelian Isthmus), after which they streamed northward across the isthmus to the Finnish city of Viipuri (Vyborg).

Unable to secure help from Britain and France, the exhausted Finns made peace on Soviet terms on March 12, 1940, agreeing to the cession of western Karelia and to the construction of a Soviet naval base on the Hanko Peninsula.

21 posted on 09/08/2012 10:38:41 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (WA DC E$tabli$hment; DNC/RNC/Unionists...Brazilian saying: "$@me Old $hit; w/ different flie$" :^)
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