Word: laplander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...northern drive had already been halted last week-but not by the Russians. In the dark Arctic region south of Petsamo the Finns had a real birthday present for Joe Stalin, and they delivered it wrapped in a blizzard. While the Finns were digging in near Ivalo, on their Lapland "Mannerheim Line," preparing to meet the Russian mechanized forces that were rolling southward, a thick, swirling snowstorm enveloped the Russian Army. Tanks and lorries had to be dug out of snowdrifts. Gasoline supply trucks were stalled on the road from the north. The Russians had no shelter because the Finns...