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- Newsgroups: alt.war
- Subject: Re: Cease fire procedures
- Message-ID: <725486671snx@aloysius.equinox.gen.nz>
- From: mike@aloysius.equinox.gen.nz (Mike Campbell)
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 92 20:04:31 GMT
- References: <655.2240.uupcb@compart.fi>
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- In article <655.2240.uupcb@compart.fi> juha.veijalainen@compart.fi writes:
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- > In Finnish Winter war and Continuation war finnish troops were ordered to
- > cease fire several hours before the Soviet troops did. Soviets continued
- > to use their antillery and infantry weapons and made several feint
- > attacks.
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- Didn't the Finns think along the lines "Yahoo, the cease fire is
- signed, lets all party" before the actual time specified? The
- Russians then bombarded all known Finnish positions for the last 15
- minutes before the official deadline, causing many casualties and
- great bitterness.
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- Mike Campbell, Christchurch, New Zealand
- mike@aloysius.equinox.gen.nz
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