Word: finnishness
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Shells from the Finnish Fort Mantsi barred their retreat by road. And to the northeast, between the trapped divisions and their would-be rescuers, the woods were full of Finns. The relief forces, reported to be led by Russia's famed, swashbuckling Marshal Simeon Budenny, pounded the Finns' granite defense lines with artillery until the frozen earth was a morass of mud and slush, but every time they tried to break through they were caught in a murderous cross fire. As the Russian attacks grew weaker, the Finns took the offensive, capturing tanks and armored cars. Russian casualties...
Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim has been preparing for war against Russia ever since his Government refused to let him lead a Finnish White Army against Petrograd in 1918. To his implacable hatred of everything Red may be attributed some of Stalin's nervousness over the security of the U. S. S. R., which was a remote cause of the present Russo-Finnish war. To it Finland certainly owes her continued independence, for the defense tactics that have so amazed the Russians and the world were planned long before Russia invaded Finland last fall. And the man who planned...
...democrat, but an officer who had been close to the Tsar, he was in a ticklish position. Conveniently developing a sprained foot, he left the front on a doctor's orders, was met" in Odessa by a telegram relieving him of his command. On Dec. 6, 1917, the Finnish Diet declared that region's independence from Russia and Mannerheim started for home. Stories differ as to how he got there. One version says he wore his dress uniform and commandeered a train. Another that he disguised himself as a porter...
...that followed the civil war there are many conflicting stories, but nobody denies that Reds were executed by the thousands, that thousands of others died in concentration camps and many more thousands fled to Russia. The Communist press claims 30,000 were executed, the Encyclopaedia Britannica says 15,000. Finnish Government sources put the figure at 2,000 executions, 10,000 dead of flu. Whatever the cause and the figure, they got rid of the Finnish Workers Republic...
...World War, vetoed any cooperation with England. Mannerheim resigned in a huff and the newly elected Regent, Per Svinhufvud, asked the Kaiser to name one of his sons King of Finland. The Kaiser proposed his brother-in-law, Prince Friedrich Karl of Hesse, who was promptly elected by the Finnish Diet. Next thing the Finns knew, the Allies had won the war and Finland was caught with its pants down. The only man who could get them up was Mannerheim...