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Fire and Ice: The Winter War of Finland and Russia
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The infamous battle on Raate Road resulted in almost 20,000 Soviet
deaths. This monument built by Russia, captures the grief of their
families back home, who in most cases, never received the bodies
of their loved ones. |
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| Russia claimed only 350 of their soldiers were killed in the
battle and requested only 350 bodies to be returned. As a result, thousands of fallen soldiers were buried in
mass graves along Raate Road. |
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The Lotta Svärd, an auxiliary force of 100,000 women, was an
invaluable asset for the Finnish Army. Not only did the Lottas by
their services in air surveillance and communications free up men
for the front line, they also provided hot meals, dry clothes, and
took care of the wounded. |
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| Sometimes a meal was no more than a cup of hot soup or tea, but it
made all the difference in sub-zero weather. But hot meals were
often the difference between life and death. |
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Recreating history means careful attention to detail, even
to reenacting the taking of pictures of reenactments. |
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