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The Winter War

By Richard P. Hallion

 

“So many Russians! Where will we bury them all?”

 

At the end of the 1930s, the Soviet Union’s Krasnaya Armiya (Red Army) embodied Stalin’s military strength. It had five million troops, more than 300 divisions, a formidable reserve, and included the Voenno-Vozdushnye Sily (VVS), the Air Force. It seemed invincible, and Defense Commissar Kliment Voroshilov even said so to delegates at the 1939 Party Congress.

Today in Military History: Nov. 30, 1939, The Winter War (DefenseNews' Intercepts blog)

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