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	Winter War
		The conditions of the winter 1939/40 were harsh; temperatures of -40°C were not unusual, and the Finns were able to use this to their advantage.
		This partial healing of the wounds and rifts after the Civil War in Finland (1918), and Finland's language strife, is still referred to as "the Spirit of the Winter War".
		After the war it became known that the commander of the Allied expedition force actually was instructed to avoid combat contact with the Soviet troops.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/wi/Winter_war.html (1282 words)

	War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A war to liberate an occupied country is called a "war of liberation"; a war between internal factions within a state is a civil war.
		Total war is the modern term for the targeting of civilians and the mobilisation of an entire society, when every member of the society has to contribute to the war effort.
		Wars are seen as the result of evolved psychological traits that are turned on by either being attacked or by a population perception of a bleak future.
	www.tocatch.info /en/War.htm (4389 words)

	Winter War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1721, as a result of Northern War, the Karelian isthmus and the Ladoga Karelia, and in 1743 the Southern Karelia was captured by Russia.
		The World War had not yet begun in earnest and was known to the public as the Phony War; at that time, the Winter War was the only real fighting besides the German and Soviet invasion of Poland, and thus held major world interest.
		Sweden, which had declared itself to be a non-belligerent rather than a neutral country (as in the war between Nazi Germany and the Western Powers) contributed military supplies, cash, credits, humanitarian aid and some 8,700 Swedish volunteers prepared to fight for Finland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Winter_War (4710 words)

	Sweden travel guide - Wikitravel
		Sweden [1] is the largest of the countries of Scandinavia, in Northern Europe, with a population of about 9 million.
		Sweden is a member of the European Union and the Schengen Agreement.
		Sweden has a reputation for being a pretty difficult country to hitch in, though it's still quite possible to hitchhike (but risk assence is no way assured).
	wikitravel.org /en/Sweden (3184 words)

	Sweden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Indeed, some observers of the neo-Nazi movement in Sweden believe that the recent increase in individual acts of extreme violence is itself a sign of the movement's growing desperation and descent into pure criminality as a result of more effective countering measures and greater awareness.
		Notable examples are the escape of Danish Jews to Sweden in October 1943, Count Folke Bernadotte's activities, as the war was ending, in bringing Jews and non-Jews out of the concentration camps, and, especially, the attempts of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat in Nazi-occupied Hungary, to save Hungarian Jews by issuing them with Swedish passports.
		Although the Sami population now enjoy some political autonomy, Sweden was the last of the Nordic countries to allow the formation, in 1994, of a Sameting, an elected Sami parliament that represents Sami affairs to the government, and the Swedish body is still less independent than its Finnish and Norwegian counterparts.
	www.axt.org.uk /antisem/archive/archive4/sweden/sweden.htm (11483 words)

	The Great War . Historians . Orlando Figes \| PBS
		Because when they took the Winter Palace, they found in its basement the largest wine cellar ever known to history.
		There was the supply of the Tsar's favorite wine, a Chateau de Calme of 1847, the grandest of the grand vintners.
		The leading mob that had taken the Winter Palace immediately began ransacking these cellars.
	www.pbs.org /greatwar/historian/hist_figes_06_winter.html (243 words)

	Sweden and the Winter War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Winter War was fought in the four months following the Soviet Union's invasion of Finland on November 30, 1939.
		In the "Statsrådsdiktamen" on 19 February 1940, Sweden's king Gustav V publicly rejected pleas from Finland's government for military intervention in the Winter War to help defend Finland against the Soviet invasion.
		On October 12th, it turned out that the political support was deemed insufficient in Sweden for a military engagement on Åland: the Conservative party was in favor, the Social Democrats were split, and a majority of the Agrarians and all the Liberals were opposed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sweden_and_the_Winter_War (1434 words)

	Winter War
		During the Winter War, the Finnish fighters normally dispersed in small numbers to auxiliary camouflaged airfields to avoid detection and attack on the ground.
		The primary Soviet bombers of the Winter War, the Tupolev SB-2, discussed earlier in conjunction with their service in Spain and the Far East, and the larger and slightly slower Ilyushin DB-3, were both relatively fast aircraft with twin radial engines.
		Even though the Finns did not have a very effective air-direction system during the Winter War, they were often able to receive engagement and sighting reports that were valuable in allowing them to concentrate their limited forces where they were most needed.
	www.sci.fi /~fta/winter-w.htm (4677 words)

	Winter War 1930' 1940
		The battle in Summa was one of the main battles in the Winter War.
		In the beginning of the war, the Soviet 56th division advanced close to the village of Loimola.
		Sweden denied both of them (Swedish volunteers were allowed to enter the war, unofficially of course).
	www.wargamer.com /rtm/wintwar.htm (1478 words)

	War (Harpers.org)
		Ariel Sharon, a known war criminal, was elected prime minister of Israel; Sharon declared that the peace process was dead and that the Palestinians must submit to Israeli domination before negotiations could resume.
		Donald Rumsfeld asserted that the Afghan war is “not a quagmire.” Israelis and Palestinians continued to make war on one another; the death count rose to 728 Palestinians and 186 Israelis.
		American forces were preparing for large-scale war games in Qatar, which is expected to be the base for command and control operations during the invasion of Iraq.
	www.harpers.org /War.html (4705 words)

	Syllabus
		During World War II much of the Nordic and Baltic region was occupied by foreign military powers: Norway and Denmark by Nazi Germany and the Baltic States alternately by the Soviet Union and Germany.
		Sweden alone escaped war and occupation by claiming political neutrality.
		Considers the difficult position of Finland during the “Winter War” of 1939-40 (between the Soviet Union and Finland) and the “Continuation War of 1941-44,” when Finland was an ally of Nazi Germany.
	faculty.washington.edu /marianne/war (876 words)

	Red Snow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Winter War was seen by Churchill as an opportunity to strike a blow at Germany indirectly as the Soviets were providing the Nazi war machine with nearly fifty percent of their iron.
		With the arrival of 1940, the Winter War entered it's second phase and Stalin was beginning to realize that this was not going to be a walk in the park.
		The fact whether or not they won the war is irrelevant and overshadowed by the greater fact that the gallant Finns emerged from the wastes of war independent and free.
	www.gate.net /~doctor/thoughts/essays/winterwar1.htm (2424 words)

	Sweden
		Its influence in the region declined with the rise of Russia in the 19th century.
		German war industry was mainly based upon supplies of Swedish iron ore, which in the summer were drawn from the Swedish port of Lulea at the head of the Gulf of Bothnia, and in the winter, when this was frozen, from Narvik on the west coast of Norway.
		In winter normally the main trade is from Narvik, whence ships can pass down the west coast of Norway, and make the whole voyage to Germany without leaving territorial waters until inside the Skagerrak.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWsweden.htm (837 words)

	Sweden
		He was badly wounded outside of Riga in the summer of 1944Eldh-Albiez returned to Sweden in 1945 after having spent the rest of the war in hospitals at Hamburg and Pomerania.
		He was with this unit during the difficult fight to escape from the "Cherkassy Pocket", where he laid fir boughs (in lieu of flowers) on the graves of the Swedish volunteers who died there and immortalised their deeds in a dispatch that was widely published newspapers throughout Europe.
		Ledin and Alm had served in the Swedish volunteer corps during the "Winter War" in Finland and showed their medals to Finnish commander, who said they were "good boys" and released them, so they could continue back to Sweden.
	www.geocities.com /~orion47/SWEDEN/Waffen-SS.html (4242 words)

	The Finnish Winter War
		After World War I, Finland had been given control of the Åland Islands by the League of Nations and with the consent of Sweden with the understanding that no military forces were to be stationed on them.
		The main and final attack of the war began on February 6, 1940, along a five-mile front in Western Karelia with three divisions supported by 150 tanks and 200 airplanes.
		This epic Finnish Winter War is the material of heroic ballads passed down to generations.
	www.kaiku.com /winterwar.html (2789 words)

	Sweden and the Spanish Civil War
		Of these 142 were killed in action, two died of typhus and one died in a prisoner of war camp.
		If violation of §2 has been committed outside Sweden independent of what is stated in Chapter 1, §1 in the penal code, the violation may be prosecuted here in Sweden.
		Elis Frånberg was born in the northern part of Sweden in 1904.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /SPsweden.htm (3691 words)

	Sweden - Scandinavica.com
		How is the weather: mild in summer (25°C) and cold in winter, when temperatures reach -15°C, getting colder in the northern latitudes.
		Sweden is a country of the European Union.
		- Sweden became a military power during the 17th century but lost the Duchy of Finland in a war with Russia in 1809.
	www.scandinavica.com /sweden.htm (655 words)

	FINNISH ARMY 1918 - 1945: ARTILLERY PART 6
		During Winter War the howitzers were issued to Heavy Artillery Battalion 6, which was sent to battle in February of 1940.
		Also McGormick TD-14 bulldozers (bought from USA during Winter War) were issued to these units and used as towing tractors, which assisted in getting the howitzers to their positions and off.
		For Winter War the remaining eight howitzers were issued to Heavy Artillery Battalion 4, which supported Finnish troops in Taipale sector of Mannerheim-line.
	www.jaegerplatoon.net /ARTILLERY6.htm (7022 words)

	The Great War . Chapter 4 . War Without End \| PBS
		For the "lost generation" the war became a war without end, one that continued through missing limbs, mutilated faces and shaking bodies.
		These people felt that Germany, the army and all those who had lost their lives in the war had been betrayed by traitors at home who had undermined the soldiers at the front.
		that's something that's generally not understood about the WW I. A lot of the men who fought in that war came out of it very attached to their experience of the war, thinking that this was the best time of their lives.
	www.pbs.org /greatwar/chapters/ch4_war.html (344 words)

	FMP - Infantry Weapons 1939 - 1945
		Degtyarev LMGs were captured in noticeable quantities in Winter War and at the beginning of the Continuation War.
		This handy and powerful "squad weapon" was especially effective at close range when fighting in forest and caused serious losses to Soviet soldiers during Winter War.
		During Winter War only separate infantry battalions had organic mortar platoons but during Continuation War mortar platoon was a standard in all Finnish infantry battalions.
	www.geocities.com /finnmilpge/fmp_weapons.html (1174 words)

	Axis History Factbook: Foreign volunteers in the Winter War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		After the war the Hungarians were sent for a while to the Lappeenranta garrison and finally returned home in May 1940.
		When the war ended there were only 13 British volunteers in Finland although many more had volunteered, including 214 men who reached Finland and Lapua one week after the war had ended.
		This was even more evident when soon after the Winter War Germany occupied Denmark and Norway thus effectively cutting any routes from Finland to the West.
	www.axishistory.com /index.php?id=6299 (1836 words)

	Miscellaneous Finnish Issue
		During the Winter War 77,000* Swede M96 Mausers were sold to the Finns by Sweden.
		Also during the Winter War Sweden sent 8,000 volunteers to help in the defense of Finland.
		Both of these firearms were captured in the Finnish Civil War of 1918 when the Soviet arsenals were taken.
	www.mosinnagant.net /finland/Other-Finns-Main.asp (546 words)

	Paradox Interactive Forums - New 1.06 Wishlist
		It would handy to be able to "prod" an ally to attack on a certain front, and once giving the command to said forces, back out and let them have control of their forces again.
		After the war the reports of "sinkings" of subs by aircraft were compared against known losses of the subs, 100% of reported sinkings were true, the only problem, the sub resurfaces after the aircraft has left 99% of the time!
		Sweden getting involved in Winter War if they decide to help the Finns.
	www.europa-universalis.com /forum/showthread.php?t=102862 (2711 words)

	Adventure racing in Sweden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		We are happy and thankful for the interest they show us.
		The adventure event at The WAR this year was snowshoeing, something that the competitors found quite amusing.
		The course was about 1 km through deep snow and dark woods.
	www.kalmar-multisport.se /en (246 words)

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