Sunday - January 03, 2010
WEDNESDAY , JANUARY 3, 1940. LITTLE FINLAND AT WAR, NO PUSHOVER AS SOVIETS LEARN
This war started about 1934 between the Russians and Finland. PROUD little Finland who before they were forced by numbers and I forget what else to conceed the field, gave the Soviets a very bloody nose.
How damn depressing and sad then to know that today, after all they fought for, they’ve become as PC as the rest of Europe. God that thought is depressing.
Talk about a band of brothers. well we weren’t were we? I just brought it up.
That’s cos the Telegraph has been charting the course of the Second World War day by day in these little boxed blurbs. You can go to their site for lots more on the subject. But this caught my eye. And so I share as usual, my interests with you.
I hope that shows up readable on your screens. If it doesn’t, here’s what it says.
The Daily Telegraph is able to publish today the first detailed account which has yet appeared of the great Russian rout on Finlands eastern front.
In a graphic message from the scene of the fighting, our special correspondent describes below how a Soviet division of about 18,000 men, including picked shock troops, was virtually annihilated by a small Finnish force.
Many of them were trapped on a narrow peninsula at Lake Tolva and were tricked into fighting with each other, following a brilliant pincer movement by the Finns.The engagement lasted ten days, from Dec 13 to Dec 23, in temperatures ranging from 13 to 30 degrees below zero, Fahrenheit. When our correspondent visited the scene, the road was still littered with frozen Russian bodies and disabled tanks.
Yesterday the Russians, having reorganised their forces after repeated reverses, launched a further attack on the Mannerheim Line on the Karelian Isthmus with 200,000 men.
Their onslaught was everywhere repulsed.
Britain at War
Telegraph.co.uk is publishing daily articles from the archive 70 years ago chronicling the build-up to the Second World War, as well as 10 features by leading historian Andrew Roberts, illustrated with video. Readers can share their recollections at the end of each article.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/britainatwar/
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