Finns vs. Russians

How did the Finns manage to defeat the Russian hordes during the war? Ivan, how could you not defeat such a small, insignificant nation? Did the Mongolian Super Saiyan bloodline take over? Further, why did you want to defeat Finland in the first place?

>how did the finns defeat the russian hordes?
during the winter war the red army suffered from Stalins purges and did not have competent leadership or even proper winter gear. They basically rolled in a motorized column that got encircled and BTFO by the finns on skis and amphetamine.

also the soviet forces were relocators from who knows where thanks to communist blur the roots policy

It is true. Stalin basically eliminated the entire Russian military command. Weirdly, French Revolution did the same thing, they executed basically every Naval captain they had

Stalin executed a good majority of his generals, but we shouldn't underestimate the will of the Finns.
They had just gained independence, and they weren't about ready to give it up.
They fought for their homeland, and they fought well.

Yeah, very true. Bear in mind as well, Finland had its own civil war between communist sympathizers and white sympathizers. The whites won, so they weren't about to give into the communists. Shame they didn't give Finland a monarchy

the numbers were roughly comparable and the Soviets fought against the enemy who knew the terrain better (which was a huge deal back before GPS). Finland terrain favors the defenders with larger forests, marshes, lakes and bogs making armor virtually useless. In the end the entire *war* lasted only 100 days and Soviets got what they wanted. If USSR went into a full invasion, they would have appointed Zhukov or other Far East veteran

But we won the war. Not once, but twice.
Finns achieved pretty impressive k/d ratio, but they lost the war.

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>American education, the post

This triggers the finngolian scum

Russians are genetic slaves and dont know how to fight. They got btfo by every army unless it was meat slinging the enemy with more soldiers than the enemy has population.

>muh human wave

Nobody over the age of 18 still believes this.

Not entirely, considering the initial objective was to successfully occupy all of Finland, this however proved to be a hard thing to do which forced the Soviets to ease up on their ambitions.

Finland needed to accept all the russian terms if it didn't wanted to be annexed

stalin purged a lot of skilled people in command

I'm not refuting any of that, simply forcing facts on the table. In the end Finland had to concede to Russian demands because the supplies and ammunition was depleting, a defence against another million Russians would've undoubtedly been unsuccessful and many lives would've been lost.

>they executed basically every Naval captain they had
they did that too? I always thought it was just the aristocrats minus military officers. They never mentioned that in school.
Stupid thing to do but I get why they would do that since officers back then were all from higher society.

Nah you didnt.
You failed both times in your main objective.

>Finland needed to accept all the russian terms
False, Russia abandoned demands of unconditional surrender after getting BTFO in 1944

As if Finns had that much skilled people to face them

>defeat
lmao

>Achieve 10% completion
>win
pick one

>gets btfo by rice farmers

USSR didnt want to conquer finland
just to push border away from Leningrad

Its the truth like it or not. Russians were used as meat sacks by their leaders, they were always peasants without fighting skills. Russia is China of Europe.

Don't get how it was a defeat when the Finns had to surrender their land. That's a loss for Finland??