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Originally Posted by Happy Times
Most of those troops where from northern parts of Russia and equipped accordingly, some even from Siberia. For exsample the Dolin ski brigade that was complitely annihilated.
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And yet when the Soviets got their military in shape the situation changed considerably. Also, the average soldiers weren't interested in fighting against Finland, hence partly the low morale of the troops. Finns on the other hand deduce this to about the inferiority of the Soviets.
Personally I can't see anything to be proud about being the ally of the biggest war criminal of recorded history.
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I think 1/3 is a more common ratio mentioned in attack, wich the russian exceeded in most places. They had the 1/10 ration and even more in most weapons. Like with circa 7000 tanks and 4000 airplanes still in the end of the war against Finland.
It really makes you rather pathetic when you say, "given those odds the results weren't that amazing".
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Yea because they weren't. When the Soviets had a genuine interest in achieving a goal like, for example, winning the World War, they achieved it. A sideshow like the wars against Finland weren't really that important and served more as a kind of prelude to the real fighting which was to come.
I think if anything the wars that Finland fought against the Soviets only served to keep the World War going on longer then necessary keeping the Holocaust and all the other needles bloodshed continuing longer then necessary. And Finland had it's own concentration camps where Soviet civilians perished by the thousands.
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1941 the attacker was still USSR
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Nope.
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and the general intent of Finland was to get back what was stolen.
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With the help of Nazi-Germany Finland wanted to build a
Greater Finland. Didn't work out.
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It was USSR that started the WW2 with the general intent to invade Europe and the world.
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lolwat?