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...pushed into battle at the bayonet's point; and though there had never been such vastnesses, the world's press was overfed with vignettes -a number of Russian peasants capturing three parachutists, two planes dropping eight bombs which killed a postman and burned two barns at Tammisaari, Finland...
Because the land ar<5und Finland is as pitted with water as Swiss cheese with air, because Russia is naturally defended from Rumania by the Prut and Dniester Rivers, Germany's two stooges on the flanks did little. Finland toppled reluctantly into the war as German drives developed on Murmansk in the far north and on Lenin grad across the scarred Karelian Isthmus...
Except for the devotees of Comedian Mischa Auer, Russian names have always been tongue-twisters; to Mischa and his fans they have been side-splitters. The Battle of Russia is the most unpronounceable campaign of World War II. Communiques are peppered with place names in not only Russia but Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, East Prussia, Poland, Rumania. The most important, together with rough approximations in English phonetics of their pronunciations...
...Finland...
...nations were at war beside Germany at week's end: Italy, Hungary, Rumania, Finland, Slovakia, Croatia-three more than fought for Germany at any time in World War I. In Spain the Naziphile Falange began recruiting "volunteers" (while Generalissimo Francisco Franco promised Great Britain to punish Falangist hoodlums who attacked the British Embassy). Denmark broke off diplomatic relations with Russia, closed its only Communist paper, rounded up Reds. German propaganda announced that the Regiment Nordland, composed of Danish and Norwegian Nazis, was fighting on the Finnish Front. There was also a Regiment Westland, made up of Dutch and Belgian...