Evil Empire

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Dictator Putin continues what Dictator Stalin started. Some years ago Russia did start new narrative about Finnish war crimes in WW2. Claims about concentration camps and genocide. All of this aiming just to justify military actions towards Finland. And just for the record, those are just lies, without any evidence. Even straight after WW2, Soviet union prosecutor committee did not find war crimes. On the contrary they did prove that there was not any.   Fi war trials Then few war crimes in WW2 committed by Soviet union, but as usual never admitted by Soviet Union even all hard facts existing. Seitajärvi Elisenvaara After war Kaleva Basically allies (Britain, USA and etc..) in WW2 just helped 1 evil empire to crush another one. It is so amazing when Russia is by the far largest country in the world, and still they just can't fit within their borders, they always need to have war somewhere.  Here excellent video by former Finnish Intelligence officer, explaining why Russia will...
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Summan ristit (Medal of Summa)

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Summa is one of the most famous battle grounds of Winter War. In Winter War Soviet Union tried to invade Finland as they did for all Baltic states. War was fought 1939-1940 as part of the WW2, it was 105 days of fierce fighting in freezing cold. And against all odds Finnish army held, peace agreement ended this savage Winter War. Soviet Union achieved Pyrrhic victory in this war. About 25000 Finnish and 250000 Russian soldiers died in this war.

Finnish army did do one the most outstanding performances in the world military history. And for Red army it was total fiasco. One of the main reasons, why Hitler decided to invade  Russia asap.

This book tells a story about frontline men's of Summa. How they saw battles in frontline trenches, when they were totally outgunned and outmanned by Red army. They were fighting against all odds. Red army did have everything, endless amount of artillery, tanks, fighters and manpower. Finnish army did lack everything else except bravery.
Finnish front line soldier basic workday did consist of: In freezing cold 4 hours of artillery barrage, then 4 hours fighting with Russian tanks and infantry. After that again 4 hours of artillery barrage and then night time to repair collapsed trenches and dugouts. In this absurdity they fought with Molotov cocktails (firebomb) and satchel charges against tanks and they shot with machine guns hundreds and hundreds of Russian infantry day after day. This savage fighting included also a lot of close combat fighting. Legendary soldiers like Kalle Hakanen and Lauri Jaurimo fought in the trenches of Summa.

When war is always horrible, but these men have to stand this total nightmare for few months. After life in the gates of heaven. They can go anywhere, because hell has nothing to offer for these guys. They have already been in much worse place. Wonder how any of these guys could keep their sanity.

Book is published in 1992 and written by PJ Kuitto. It has novel structure. But all things are based on historical facts, real soldiers, real war, real stories. Source literature includes war veteran interviews, war diaries, and Finnish war archive material.

Unfortunately there is no English version of the book.  And original copy is sold out. You can get this from antique store: Old books



If you want to read about hardest battles about WW2 in eastern front, check some Winter War books.



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