Originally posted by Evil Pawn 666stats from the winter war, finland vs. soviet union 1939-1940.
Clarity was terrible. What does it mean?
soviet strength:
1,500,000 men
6,541 tanks
3,800 planes
finnish strength:
250,000 men
30 tanks
130 planes
and the score:
26,662 dead finns vs 226,875 dead soviets (with 400k missing)
below everything is a text:
" F I N L A N D
be afraid. be very afraid."
This brings back a memory to me of a Finnish student who was attending the University of Washington with my two sisters. Tuuliki Kuyllonin...though I may have spelled her name wrong I still remember how it was pronounced....was 36 years old and came as a gymnastics instructor as well as a student. She came to our home for the holidays and I remember playing Sibelius' Finlandia, and having her thank me...though I was not really thinking about the connection at the time I was just sitting and playing through a piano book as I often did. She remarked that she had lost her fiance during that war, and that there were many unmarried women and widows in Finland because of that campaign. She told us that many of the younger men were maimed, and the most fit were the elderly men. I think that she never did marry, but I could ask my sisters about that. I was still in high school when we knew her.
Originally posted by ale1552tuulikki kyllönen must've been the name. unless she's changed it to a more english spelling later...
This brings back a memory to me of a Finnish student who was attending the University of Washington with my two sisters. Tuuliki Kuyllonin...though I may have spelled her name wrong I still remember how it was pronounced....was 36 years old and came as a gymnastics instructor as well as a student. She came to our home for the holidays and I remember playing ...[text shortened]... did marry, but I could ask my sisters about that. I was still in high school when we knew her.
Originally posted by wormwoodThat does look familiar! Thank you. It was about 61 years ago that I knew her. My sisters kept in touch with her after she returned to Finland. I must ask one of them to refresh my memory of what happened to her. She would be at least 97 now.
tuulikki kyllönen must've been the name. unless she's changed it to a more english spelling later...
Originally posted by KorchThe model for the Russian high command was Diaghilev, the famous Russian 'human wave' tactic being an enthusiastic if pedestrian variation on the Rite of Spring.
Russians usually don`t care about lifes of their soldiers (and usally they could afford it as they never had lack of cannon fodder) and USSR army commanders in that was showed themselves as obviously incompetent.