Just remember that these camps detained the Reds (aka the Communists) at the end of the Finnish Civil War, not in the way many people think concentration camps where used for in Nazi Germany. That and the Soviets where very inferior to the Finns in battle. For instance note the PPHS-41 SMG. This SMG first appered as the PPD-40 which was a Soviet copy of the Finnish SMG which is in the second photo that I posted. The Soviets used its massive number of troops, tanks and planes to try to roll over the Finns, and the Soviets might have used the best troops that they had in that region but not the best equipment or tactics. For example the Soviets used the T-26 instead of tanks like the T-34, using the improper uniforms in winter conditions brown istead of white, ect, ect.
The Soviets greatly underestimated the Finns in there tactics, skill in improvising weapons(Molotov Cocktail named after the Soviet Foreign Minister V.M. Molotov, and the Skipole Knife), and the the greatest weapon the Finns had was the knowing thier own countrys terrain.
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