Hey /his/ student here writing a paper about the Winter War here,

>>2752334
>why can you guys tell me about the Finnish side?
Because we are a history board,board and we love telling things.

>>2752334
https://youtu.be/yHrndb0oZEc

>>2752334
The Mannerheim line was overhyped. It helped, but it wasn't as well fortified as say, the Maginot Line.

Significant figures would include Emil Mannerheim and Simo Hayha.

>>2752334
All of their top commanders were ethnic swedes, probably why they were so successful

>>2752470
Does anything even compare to Maginot?

>>2752516
This is not true at all

>>2752570
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Wall_of_China

If you take into account pre-irrelevancy.

Unless the great wall is just a meme, if anyone wants to prove me wrong. I don't know much about china.

>>2752706
Sorry, most of them not all

>>2752516

>"Ethnic Swedes" here describing a bunch of Finnish people whose family had centuries earlier changed their identity into a swedish-speaking minority for climbing the social ladder

>>2752334
i've got books on it if you ned op

>>2752862
>he literally just made that up

>>2752334

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/world-war-two/world-war-two-and-eastern-europe/the-winter-war-1939/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salients,_re-entrants_and_pockets#Motti

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hjalmar_Siilasvuo

It did help for FInns that Stalin had executed much of the able military leaders. Also they used zerg tactics like pictured here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHbr57w-M1c

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>>2752862
1. Genetics=/=ethnicity so it doesnt matter what they were originally
2. You got it the other way around (picrelated)

>>2752334
Post higher-res pic please

>>2752334
They had a cool sniper bloke.

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>>2752958
Think this is the same one