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"Fourthly, there is little doubt that Finland's soldiers would have sustained far fewer casualties in the war, and the Armed Forces inflicted a far greater defeat on the Red Army, had Finland's government and parliament spent sufficient money to provide adequate weapons for the Armed Forces in the years before the war. Thus Finland for instance suffered a virtually complete lack of anti-tank weapons, forcing the soldiers to destroy the Soviet tanks through close-in fighting, using improvised explosive and incendiary devices. In fact it was during the Winter War that the 'Molotov Cocktail', consisting of a bottle filled with a mixture of gasoline, sand and soap suds, with a burning rag in its mouth, was invented and first put to use. The weapon was effective,..."