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...Some "Finnish diplomats" in Stockholm speak no word of Finnish, talk Swedish with heavy German accents...
...east, Finland's land boundary with Russia from the White Sea to the Gulf of Finland would be conveniently short, broken up by the big lakes Onega and Ladoga. The Karelians, who are racially kin to the Finns and speak a kind of Russianized Finnish, are well scattered throughout northeastern Russia. If the Finns should decide to claim, by racial right, all the territory in which they live, the New Finland would run as far east as Archangel, cut off Russia effectively from the White...
...northern front the Russians fared better. The attack on Leningrad-which the Germans persisted in calling by the Tsarist name, St. Petersburg-developed as a sneak around two lakes: Ladoga on the Finnish side, Peipus on the Estonian. The Finns, said a German reporter, fought so fanatically that they had to be restrained; but the Russians fought hard too. One German reporter described "bandits" on this front who fought with axes, daggers, broken bottles and adzes...
...purge of Marshal Mikhail Tukachevsky was partly caused by his objection to the revival of the powers of political commissars. The Finnish war, after Marshal Tukachevsky and 213 other officers had been liquidated, showed that they were right. Commissars were dismissed and the Soviet Army organ, Red Star, declared: "War does not tolerate dilettantism. . . . The great Stalin urges us to face reality and not lock ourselves in shells of ossified dogma. . . . The discipline of the Red Army must be stronger, sterner, and more exacting." Marshal Timoshenko told his officers: "Teach your troops only what is necessary for war and only...
...people of Moscow, they said, were going about their business as calmly as Londoners, organizing an effective blackout for their as-yet-unbombed city. Last week the only signs of war in Moscow were a few people with gas masks, reservists (better equipped than in the Finnish war) walking to the stations with their families,* fewer autos and taxis. Streetcars, trolley-busses and the Metro were running as usual...