Russia has Forgotten the Hard Lessons
it Learned Invading Finland
Posted By: DVC, 3/1/2022 12:21:01 PM
Russia learned some hard lessons when it invaded Finland in November 1939. Today in Ukraine, it’s become clear that those lessons didn’t “stick,” at least not among Russia’s decision-makers. In the winter of 1939, Russia – having just conquered half of Poland after Germany had already knocked that country out of the war – decided that war was good business. So they invaded Finland. In Poland, the Soviets re-took land that had been under the control of Czarist Russia for two centuries before it was divided away from Russia at the treaty of Versailles. Repeating that strategy, on November 30, 1939, Russia attacked Finland
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Then, as now, Russia expects that once they conquer a vassal state, it is their right to own it forever. They see Ukraine as their property, a runaway slave.
Much of this is valid, but the winter in Ukraine is not the Finnish arctic winter. I have been through winter in Ukraine, and it isn't any harsher than say, NE USA.
But the rest is pretty valid. Russia has divided it's forces very widely, and seems to be short on logistics, which is exacerbated by huge, very long supply lines to each front. And the conscript troops thing is a really important point.