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...Nothing was said in the treaty about Finland fortifying her new frontiers, and spunky Foreign Minister Tanner said: "Who can stop...
...Russo-Finnish War. The Finnish Diet ratified the terms 145-to-3.* Obeying the terms of a protocol appended to the peace treaty, 100,000 Finns still remaining in the ceded areas at once started a sad march out of bigger-than-ever Russia into an even smaller Finland-carrying their babies and chattels, driving their few remaining cows and horses. The narrow roads and war-taxed railroads clogged up. Snow fell, gales raged. Defense Minister Juho Niukkanen resigned from the Cabinet partly because his job was done, partly because his whole constituency was ceded to Russia...
...After the "Great Wrath" in 1721 when Finland was the Russo-Swedish battleground, her population dropped...
Lesson No. 2 from Finland was the cumbersomeness in rough country of divisions which are over-mechanized and equipped as occupying troops instead of for sheer attack and holding. The elaborate Russian caravans which sought to penetrate Finland's forested southeast corner and central "waist" bogged down of their own weight and complexity on narrow roads. Under the circumstances, the superior mobility of the ten-man Finnish ski patrols actually gave them superiority in effective numbers over the hordes of stalled Russians, a superiority not unlike that of a small wolf pack over a herd of caribou...
...Final maneuver in the cracking of Finland's defense was a simple one for any commander with superior numbers of troops: extension of the front. When the Russian generals finally won their opening they deployed their forces westward over the ice in front of Viipuri. By repeated attacks, now here, now there, along the coast line, they finally obtained footholds which the Finns, strung out in small groups, could not dislodge. These grips were points at which strength could soon have been built up to encircle Viipuri, and to start a drive on Helsinki. But again, this maneuver could...