Word: kollaan
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...that had won at Suomussalmi (TIME, Jan. 22), the Finns had first retreated, then made a stand at Kitela, while encircling forces cut the Russian supply lines. Their food gone, the Russians had to live on provisions dropped by parachute. But last week help was no nearer than the Kollaan and Aitto rivers, and the two divisions at Kitela, their morale sapped by hunger and cold, could not even flee back to Russia...
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