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artob committed Dec 19, 2010
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Stalin's generals had promised him Finland as a gift by his upcoming 60th
birthday in December, and they knew that their own continued personal
well-being depended on keeping that promise. And so the mindless slaughter
went on day after day, week after week, with one Soviet battallion after
went on day after day, week after week, with one Soviet battalion after
another wiped out. By the end of the month, over seven whole Soviet
infantry divisions had obliterated themselves failing to decisively breach
the Mannerheim Line. The line gave way sometimes, but always held strong in
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40,000 soldiers and more than three hundred artillery pieces, a hundred
tanks, and fifty armored cars -- would prove an instructive lesson in the
Finnish way of guerrilla warfare. The Finns would go on to apply these same
tactics extensively in the other battles of the Winter War, but the battle
tactics extensively in the other battles of the Winter War, but the Battle
of Suomussalmi remains the best-studied one.

Advancing towards Suomussalmi in early January 1940, the 44th's mechanized
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