Monday, October 1, 2007

Finland Winter War


This is a brief video of the great "Winter war" between Finland and USSR, during second world war. The War lasted almost for entire winter. Eventhough USSR won literaly, the damage created by Finnish was more in-terms of Russian victims. Stalin regime(USSR) lost almost 2,50,000 men and another 2,50,000 men injured. At the same time, Finland lost 25,000 men(with mere 3.2 million population).
The interesting thing is, USSR was soo powerfull at the time of war and dreaming that they would be able to occupy entire finland in 2 to 3 days. But, the war lasted for almost 4 months, and finnish defended their entire boundary very smartly and had proven that USSR army was of third-rated, lazy defence force.
Unfortunate thing is no other country extended usefull help to Finland, and they defended all alone till the end.

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