1940 Finland battles on

British Newsreel. January 1, 1940. Soviet inexperience, naivety, and lack of motivation were important factors in the Finnish success during the war. The attackers were not expecting much resistance; General Kirill Meretskov estimated it would take only 10 to 12 days for his 26 well equipped 14,000 man divisions to reach Helsinki. Soviet soldiers had even been warned not to cross the border into Sweden by mistake.Their propaganda had been so convincing that it was felt that the Finns would be waving flags and welcoming the Red Army with open arms.

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[Piett2]

Thank you for these uploads! Really appreciate.

[skoblinI]

you are very welcome...perhaps 2000 still to upload!

[FFulmenTheFinnish]

Thanks for uploading.

5/5.

[skoblinI]

de rien!

[ColdWar48]

This is cool, you hardly ever here about this but its important, they really diminished the Russians

[skoblinI]

Perhaps a blessing in disguise for the Soviets. It forced them to start reorganizing their military before the German attack two years later.

[VASOENGINEER]

Fuck russain impery pederation!!!!

[soulcollector66666]

Wow,thats so sad!Karelia belongs do the finns,i mean.Finland is such a great person!You can be proud of your country! ;-)

[DarkMind95]

@serbin8 you are amusing :D

[Paciat]

@MrBEB123 The real thuth? Everyone knows that Comunists are evil. :D

German Panzers were theted in Kazan-Russia before the war. III Reich and the Soviet Union signed a non agression pact in 1939 that devided central Europe between them. Its all common knowlage. Thats why the cold war started soon after the last war ended.

[YUSKHAN]

Finish Tatars kick Russia ass

[EYEREX1]

Suomi-winner!!!

[Biogem369]

Stalin destroyed all the military officers. Gave a hunger strike in Ukraine. and climbed into an adventure war against Finland. Soviet soldiers were without weapons with fixed bayonets on the fortified bunkers Finns.

[MrDoubleKiller]

Saatana ryssät

[charlotttaaa]

SISU PERKELE

[serbin8]

Long Live Russia!

Живела Русија! Живела Србија!

[MrBEB123]

People who are on this "Nazi" thing in which German National Socialism was the equivalent of the Devil forget to take a look at Roosevelt's and Churchill's good pal and buddy Stalin and the Soviet Union, a country that was an aggressor towards other countries as well as its own people. The history of WW II is not being told accurately to students who deserve to know the real truth.

[PNACATTACKdotCOM]

@P45K141N3N it was... it was new version of PETOS (Betraying) Operation Barbarossa - in order to cause investment flee from Russia by NATO NWO terrorists - and it was successful.