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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those parchments time set a greater seal. Keystone of English liberty, the Magna Charta became the symbol of government by law, of justice that may not be sold or delayed, of security for free men. All guarantees that have followed it, say historians, are but footnotes and commentary...
Unlike their occupation of Poland, where they marched in upon the rear of an already demoralized foe, this attack was upon a well-prepared, straight-shooting, determined people facing front. It was at least 2,000,000 trained men and 5,000 airplanes against 200,000 trained men and 150 airplanes, but the tough-fibred Finns provided a test for the Red war machine which the rest of the world watched intently. From the outset it was apparent that the Reds could not match the Nazis at Blitzkrieg...
Fiercest ground fighting was at Suojärvi, northern end of Finland's upper defense line in Viipuri Province (formerly Karelia). Here the Russians evidently advanced in close formation for the Finns told of shooting down two entire companies (800 men) with "machine pistols," a Chicago-type sawed-off machine gun, reputedly capable of 250 rounds per minute. A Finnish soldier, speaking over the radio, said: "I don't believe the Russians are used to us seal shooters. Compared to a seal's head in the water, they [Russians] are almost too big a target. You hardly...
Estimates were lacking on the number of men Russia was ready to hurl against the Mannerheim Line and the other three points of resistance, but the first few days' fighting sounded more like regiments than divisions, a series of holding attacks to fix the defenders in positions, set them up for more crushing blows. The Finns said 40,000 of their men were standing off 80,000 Russians. Except at the Mannerheim Line, which the Salmi and Suojärvi attacks were evidently calculated to outflank, Finnish tactics were guerrilla retreat, using forests and lakes (not yet frozen solid...
...equipment, such as motored sledges, on the Russian side. But the Reds did employ their famed parachute troops. At Petsamo, this technique apparently worked well at first. Later the parachutists were surrounded where they landed and shot up. On the isthmus, Finnish sharpshooters picked off all the first few men who floated down and the Reds quickly abandoned this tactic...