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“Stalin was especially furious with the "Leningrad Clique" of Zhdanov, who had assured him that the Finnish war would amount to little more than a police action, a nuisance that could be concluded in two weeks.”
― A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940
― A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940
“To be sure, the Finnish soldier was aware of the numerical odds against him, but he rendered those odds less terrible by cracking jokes about them: “They are so many, and our country is so small, where will we find room to bury them all?”
― A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940
― A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940
“We have each other and for all I know that's what hope is.”
― The Lion in Winter
― The Lion in Winter
“Incidents of Red aircraft strafing hospitals and hospital trains were so common that the Finns finally painted over any Red Cross insignia that were visible from the air.”
― A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940
― A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940
“The blitzkrieg, in short, had been perfected for a sleek, hard-muscled, superbly trained, and passionately motivated army, such as the German General Staff had fashioned during the decades between the wars. It was quite unsuited for a ponderous, top-heavy army of ill-trained soldiers led by timid officers, overseen by inexperienced party ideologues, and sent forth to conquer a country whose terrain consists of practically nothing but natural obstacles to military operations.”
― A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940
― A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940
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