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  1. Newsgroups: sci.military
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!hubcap!ncrcae!ncrhub2!ciss!law7!military
  3. From: brian@garfield.cs.mun.ca (Brian Paquet)
  4. Subject: Re: Lapland War?
  5. Message-ID: <C0177E.3I1@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
  6. Sender: military@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Sci.Military Login)
  7. Organization: CS Dept., Memorial University of Newfoundland
  8. References: <Bzs8pD.L7J@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> <BzzCx7.vE@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
  9. Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 17:28:26 GMT
  10. Approved: military@law7.daytonoh.ncr.com
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  14. From brian@garfield.cs.mun.ca (Brian Paquet)
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  16. Panu Wilska <wilska@cc.lut.fi> writes:
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  19. >From Panu Wilska <wilska@cc.lut.fi>
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  21. >098802@adpdp2.lanl.gov (098802) writes:
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  23. >>From 098802@adpdp2.lanl.gov (098802)
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  26. >Another reason why Stalin was willing to make peace with Finland was the fact
  27. >that Finland had its last fortified line still untouched and attacking that
  28. >line would have resulted Russians so heavy losses that they were willing to
  29. >compromise. They knew that on their last line Finns would rather die than
  30. >retreat so it would have taken perhaps months form red army to break
  31. >that line.
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  33. Hmm intresting considering how the Stalin never did seem conserned with
  34. heavy losses.. I would think that he would of wasted the troops to
  35. get all of finland. Could there be something else?
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