radishhead said:
In all seriousness, what the heck actually happened to allow that to happen? |
You mean the winter war?
Soviets were incompetent and the finns were awesome and fought really hard, and they had this guy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_Häyhä . To elaborate, the Soviet army was stuck way in the past with WW1 tactics, and the finnsish army was well trained and experienced from the finnish civil war (which occured after they broke free from tsar russia during the russian civil war). The finnish were very well equpped for winter warfare while the soviets were not. In the end, a peace was negotiated because the finnish were running out of supplies.
It's an interresting war to read about, you should look it up on wikipedia.
Many say that the winter war gave Hitler more confidence in his invasion plans of the Soviet Union, but it was also a huge wake up call for the red army which made efforts to modernize, which may have saved WWII for them.
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