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To: snippy_about_it; SAMWolf; Iris7
Evening Grace Folks~

Truly a very unpublicized and costly war. What a tough pill for the Finns to swallow in giving up 22,000 miles of land.

probably one of the greatest defensive tacticians since Robert E. Lee.

Brilliant analogy. Without adequate supplies the Finns still ran a brilliant campaign. It's interesting given the history of border disputes and conquest that Finland would allow 20 years of military neglect. Military minds like Mannerheim are often checkmated by politics. IMHO.

80 posted on 03/24/2005 5:45:12 PM PST by w_over_w (I've NEVER had to mind my p's and q's. Of course b's and d's is another story.)
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To: w_over_w

Evening w_over_w.

The reason the FInns sided with Germany in WWII was in part to regain the land they had to surrender.


83 posted on 03/24/2005 10:33:11 PM PST by SAMWolf (Liberal Rule #9 - Can't refute the message? Attack the messenger!)
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