Word: karelians
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...days earlier batteries of 8-inch guns, massed thickly on the narrow Karelian corridor into Finland, had opened fire. From the Gulf of Finland came the roar of supporting guns of the Red Baltic Fleet. The Red air force plowed the enemy defenses. At the end of three hours, Soviet infantry and tanks plunged forward into the gaps...
...defenses far above the Arctic Circle. Thirty miles from the Red lines lay the border of Norway and beyond, the rich nickel mines that are an essential part of the German war economy. Dietl had better hold fast at Norway's back door. The Finnish troops on the Karelian Isthmus were likely to have to shift for themselves...
...Army moved westward, converting the three independent Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania into Soviet Republics. There was a solemn plebiscite. Next, Russia took Bessarabia back from Rumania (she had lost it in World War I) and renamed it the Moldavian Republic. Finally the Russian part of the Karelian Isthmus, plus a slice of Finland conquered in 1940, was set up as the Karelo-Finnish Republic, and the pattern of border buffer republics was complete. The land of the Great Russians, the Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic, touches foreign territory only in the Far East, where the Amur River...
...Reportedly stripped by his Russian captors on the Karelian Isthmus in February 1940, Ramsay was told to escape if he could. He did, reaching the Finnish lines with frozen feet. His toes were amputated...
...Nazis termed Leningrad "a doomed city" on Aug. 21, 1941, when Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb captured the fortress of Schlüsselburg on the southern tip of Lake Ladoga, thus completing a 40-mile semicircular chain south of the city. The Finns pressed down the Karelian Isthmus from the north, leaving the Russians only Lake Ladoga as a link with the rest of the Soviet Union...