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...winter of 1939, when Russia's ill-trained and ill-equipped troops were led to a freezing massacre in the snows of Finland, the campaign was finally saved by the use of better troops following the shrewd tactics of Generals Grigory Kulik, Boris M. Shaposhnikov and Semion Timoshenko. General Timoshenko was widely credited with the chief part in the salvage...
...Soviet armies drove into the Ukraine, to its capital, Kiev (see map, p. 24). Thereupon the Germans not only drove out the Reds, but forced them to accept the Treaty of Brest Litovsk (March 3), which, besides depriving Russia of a Caucasian slice which went to Turkey, Russian Poland, Finland, Georgia, Lithuania, Kurland, Livonia, Estonia and the Islands of the Moon Sound, provided for an independent Republic of the Ukraine...
...Despite reports that Finnish troops were marching with the Germans, that Russian planes had bombed Finnish shipping, Finland declared that she was not at war. A split in the Finnish Cabinet on the war question was rumored...
...Nazi invasion of Russia on June 22 which suddenly and dramatically changed the whole strategy of the war was preceded by all but one of these things: 1. Nazi troop concentrations in Finland...
When the Bolsheviks overthrew the liberal Kerensky Government, Kerensky's foreign minister, learned History Professor Paul Miliukov, told Hoover he had hidden tsarist archives in a barn in Finland. "If you can get them," said Miliukov, "you can have them." "Getting them was no trouble at all," says Hoover. "We were feeding Finland at the time...