Word: rvi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mile rail connection which Finland must build this year, from the railhead at Kuolajärvi eastward to a link which Russia will build westward from Kandalakska. Russia will have free transit over this line to its juncture with the Swedish rail-road at Tornio, hard by the Swedish iron mines and fort at Boden. To narrow the "waist" of Finland thus traversed (something else Russia's fighting columns failed to do), Russia takes a slice off Finland north and south of Kuolajärvi, instead of ceding a big slice of Russia further down the line...
...Swedish Government protested that it had been double-crossed. The terms it had forwarded as intermediary had been changed, dreadfully. Sly Viacheslav Molotov had said nothing about that Kandalaksha-Kemijärvi railway, which would be not only a steel chastity-belt clamped across Finland's waist but also a weapon to jimmy Sweden's door...
Newsmen generally agree that Daily News correspondents abroad have so far done the best job of reporting Europe's war. Leland Stowe's report from the battlefield of Tolvajärvi, reprinted in newspapers, books, the Congressional Record, already ranks as a major war classic...
...power and fury,* Russia's lumbering Army, baffled and beaten at Suomussalmi last fortnight, last week hurled itself against the Finns in another sector. Strengthened by reinforcements, a division that had dug itself in near Salla on the north-central front began moving westward, heading for Kemijärvi, which a small Russian force occupied momentarily in the first week of the war (TIME, Dec. 18). The Finns gave way. By week's end the Russians were within 13 miles of Kemijärvi, halfway across Finland in one of its narrowest parts, the Finns were bringing...
...Karelian Isthmus last week General Grigory Stern's fresh Russian troops dug themselves into trenches, while northward from Leningrad streamed more fresh soldiers and supplies. The Russians tried again to flank the Mannerheim Line, were slaughtered at Tolvajärvi...