tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post4292838841940189510..comments2023-11-10T04:17:00.492-05:00Comments on View From The Porch: Today In History: Fire for effect.Tamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-52620579951189838292008-11-27T12:47:00.000-05:002008-11-27T12:47:00.000-05:00http://heninen.net/njet/english.htmhttp://heninen.net/njet/english.htmOleg Volkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06547911680603650247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-50459768897284748712008-11-26T23:32:00.000-05:002008-11-26T23:32:00.000-05:00You don't fuck with Finland.You <A HREF="http://existingthing.blogspot.com/2008/03/dont-fuck-with-finland.html" REL="nofollow">don't fuck with Finland.</A>Fletchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09719982260089858624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-62778310609006324392008-11-26T16:24:00.000-05:002008-11-26T16:24:00.000-05:00The more things change...The more things change...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-30924019838949973972008-11-26T14:26:00.000-05:002008-11-26T14:26:00.000-05:00Finns counted 25,000 dead, 55,000 wounded, and 450...Finns counted 25,000 dead, 55,000 wounded, and 450,000 homeless, a terrible price for a country of only four million people. However, even the Finns did not know the devastation that they had caused the Russians until years later. All this was at the hands of an army of less than 250,000 (mostly light infantry, home guard units) with hardly any anti-tank weapons (except Molotov cocktails) and 41 operational fighter aircraft.<BR/><BR/>One Russian general remarked, "We have won enough ground to bury our dead." Khrushchev wrote, "Even in these most favorable conditions it was only after great difficulty and enormous losses that we were finally able to win. A victory at such a cost was actually a moral defeat." According to Khrushchev, 1.5 million men were sent to Finland and one million of them were killed. 1000 aircraft, 2300 tanks and armored cars and an enormous amount of other war materials were lost. <BR/><BR/>More <A HREF="http://www.kaiku.com/winterwar.html" REL="nofollow">here.</A>tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14230665595988628546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-18258538672397506662008-11-26T11:08:00.000-05:002008-11-26T11:08:00.000-05:00See the movie, 'The Winter War', about the Finnish...See the movie, 'The Winter War', about the Finnish Home boys and the Karelian Peninsula defense. <BR/><BR/>It's the Finnish original sub-titled, and is IMO is easily in the top ranks of accurately done 'war' films. The first time I saw it, after the ending, I just sat there in my own state of video shellshock.<BR/><BR/>and speaking of little known films, look up a copy of "Dust". Ignore the idiot reviews. This is for folks with a sense of history, knowledge of the brutal late Ottoman Empire, and possibly a bit of early 20th Cen Macedonian his'try.<BR/><BR/>Oh, yeah, it helps if y'r not an A+ type for tidy story lines, sequential events, and amiguity. Not y'r pappy's Western, but a damn good evocation of that spirit. <BR/><BR/>OK, I'll shut up now. ;~`) It's a holiday coming up, and just hadda t'row some preachin' in there. Off to the furniture repairs, and Happy Day of Feasting.<BR/><BR/>John the Movie CriticAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com