Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Insomnia

From Berlin Diary, January 9. 1940 quoting an officer of the American Embassy in Moscow concerning the invasion of Finland:

"Harry says everyone in Moscow, from Stslin down, thought the Red Arny would be in Helsinki a week after the attack started "

Putin's fantasy of s high-speed special military operation is not the first Russian delusion. 

2 comments:

  1. The Winter War is an interesting study in military history, if only because of Simo Häyhä

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  2. I suspect that even the Finns did not expect to hold out for months. Soviet troops had recently given the Japanese army a bloody nose at Khalkin-Gol, and they had far more troops, with tanks and lots of aircraft.

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