"Mannheim is crazy, and at this time he is still following Hitler, this is not an ordinary border conflict, but it will be an endless war until one side is completely down!" -- This is what many people think, and Lin Jun has an indescribable feeling in his heart: because of his intervention, Finland is different from history. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Because of their preparations in the previous years, the Siberian troops who were skilled in fighting in the cold beat the Finns half to death, and the attack of a furious Finn made tens of thousands of Finns become ashes under the fire of the Red Army - that winter, the Red Army carried out Stalin's death order very well, and not a single of the tens of thousands of Finnish defenders who were divided in the Mannarin Line returned home alive!

That is, Stalin's order, which gave Lin Jun another famous nickname: the fuse of slaughter! Of course, the order was given by Stalin, and Lin Jun was still lying in the special care ward fighting death.

Finland was beaten badly, ethnic resentment became more extreme, and Molotov's conditions at the end of the truce became more harsh, all of which made the Finns fall more quickly to Germany.

Memories of the outbreak of the Soviet-German war on June 22, 1941, Finland was declared neutral. Of course, Finland was actually ready for war, mobilizing 500,000 people, or about 16 percent of the population!

However, it was impossible to flank 500,000 hostile elite troops because of Finland's declaration of neutrality, and the Soviet Union sent air forces to attack Helsinki, Turku and other southern Finnish cities. The Finnish government declared war on the Soviets only after the cities had been bombed: in the second half of August, the Finnish army, assisted by the Germans, launched a full-scale offensive and regained all the territory lost by Finland in 1939 in less than three weeks.

The "peace-loving" Finns below do not seem to be interested in other people's land, and immediately switch from offensive to defensive, and refuse to move forward despite all kinds of German coercion and persuasion. As a result, between 1942 and 1944, 500,000 elite Finnish and German troops had no battle to fight, and only confronted the Red Army, which was less than half of them and not the most powerful.

Eventually, with Germany's successive defeats, Finland became more and more eager to get rid of Germany and end the war. Stalin in Tehran in December 1943, under pressure from Roosevelt and Churchill, had agreed that Finland should maintain its national independence.

In September 44, Finland announced its withdrawal from the war.

Most of these memories are nothing more than written statements in the Western style and the causes of the special period, and a closer look reveals that Finland did not only want to regain lost territory, but also to mobilize for war. In a world where tanks and artillery only count, no one will believe or dare to believe the "declaration of neutrality" of a "hostile country" that has mobilized 16 percent of the country's population -- whoever believes it is a complete fool!

Besides, do the Finns really want to be neutral? In Lin Jun's analysis, it is simply a joke, so it is better to see what the war will be like before deciding their own attitude (the German army was driven out of the suburbs of Moscow on June 22, and with the outbreak of the Pacific War, the Finnish leaders were not stupid. ）。

Besides, Finland accepted the German 26th Infantry Corps into its territory before June 22 (it should be noted here that the information that can be found on the Internet is the 36th Infantry Corps, which is false, and the author's information comes from the absolute authority of early internal materials. The intent is self-evident. And that's not all: in the Soviet-Finnish war, the Finnish soldiers were undaunted by the overwhelming Soviet army, and used forest skiing battles to fight against them, and the Germans were impressed by the excellent fighting qualities shown by the Finns. Himmler showed great interest in these warlike soldiers, and before the war he planned to recruit a group of Finnish volunteers to augment his SS (SS means SS). Army. After the Soviet-Finnish War, the Finnish government further fell to Nazi Germany under the strong co-optation of Germany, so that Himmler got another source of troops.

In February 1941, Himmler's chief of conscription, Gottlob Berger, recruited the first 1,000 Finnish volunteers through the embassy in Helsinki. In order to conceal themselves, these Finns have been branded as "foreign workers". After swearing allegiance to the Führer of the Third Reich, these Finns joined the Waffen-SS, including 125 officers, 109 non-commissioned officers and 850 soldiers.

Between May and June 1941, Finnish volunteers arrived in Germany in three groups. The first two groups of Finns, well trained in military affairs and tested by the Winter War, were immediately added to the 5th SS Viking Division, which was preparing for the war of aggression against the Soviet Union (this alone would have made Stalin and any Soviet leader ruthless after the outbreak of war!). ）。

Another group of Finns, who had no military training, were sent to Vienna to form a new Finnish battalion and trained locally according to SS standards. Originally known as the "Nordster" Volunteer Battalion, the battalion was renamed the SS Finnish Volunteer Battalion in September 1941.

The Finnish government also had its own attached conditions, and Finnish volunteers fought only on the Eastern Front against the Soviet army for a period of two years.

In the past two years, the various SS units composed of the Finns fought fiercely on the Soviet soil, fought countless battles large and small, and fought strongly, and the farthest reached the Grozny oil field, which can be described as the elite of the SS! On 28 May 1943, the Finns returned to Finland, and on 11 July the SS Finnish battalion was officially disbanded and the personnel were dispersed and incorporated into the Finnish Army.

Although the Finnish Volunteer Battalion of the SS was removed from the battle sequence of the SS of the Third Reich, there were still some Finnish volunteers who continued to serve in the 11th "Nordland" Division of the SS, and they fought until they were destroyed in the ruins of Berlin.

In this analysis, it is obvious that Finland and Germany are breathing in the same nostril, but its leadership sees far away, its own national consciousness does not want to be really attached to the Third Reich, and it clearly knows that the behemoth of the Soviet Union is not something that it can provoke too much, which has led to the emergence of more than two years of "stalemate on the northern front" -- if the Finns were like several other client states of Nazi Germany, they would never have escaped the fate of being completely crushed by the Red Army's armored clusters once: it was not like Hungary, Romania, with its underground red party system, will not end much better than a ruined Germany.

So what now? Stalin's frenzied revenge for Lin Jun made the Finns' brains hot, and they declared war on the Soviet Union on the afternoon of the outbreak of war (and to be reasonable, at least declared war). But units of the Red Army, which were more combat-ready than the Finnish Army, held the Finns at the border line, which presumably the Finnish leadership did not expect.

Field Marshal Mannheim probably would not agree to declare war on the Soviet Union immediately, but after the crushing defeat in the Winter War, the hot-headed Finnish leadership was no longer under the control of Mannahim, he was not a dictator, and he had to listen to it. Regarding the current situation, Lin Jun really has a feeling of "doing it wrong, not doing it wrong": under his influence, he won the Winter War beautifully, but now he has found almost 500,000 more Finnish troops who want revenge for the Red Army.

"I don't think Mannahim has a fever in the head, it's that the whole of Finland is going crazy." Thinking so, he couldn't say that in his mouth, he glanced at Alexander: before he came, he had already passed the gas, and the intelligence services had received information that the German army from Germany might send troops to Finland.

Alexander spoke: "Yesterday we received a telegram from Germany, and if our guess is correct, the German operation is codenamed "Green Fox", and it is possible that it will be involved in the offensive in the direction of Leningrad and will not be thrown into the area of operations further north. ”

Alexander was right: Hitler was not going to put his troops in a secondary area, it had to be in the Leningrad direction!

"I don't think the Finns are going to fight us to the death, it's not in their interest (Finland is also pro-Anglo-American. ）。 I have a suggestion for a strategic test of the Finns: in the area north of Lake Latoga, we will selectively and voluntarily retreat to the vicinity of the 39-year-old border line and see what the Finns do next. ”

Lin Jun's words were bold: this was to give up territory to the enemy to occupy, even though those areas were not very important to the course of the war. Of course, the Arctic Ocean estuary must not be retreated (if you want to retreat, you have to see how the Finns react next). ）。

There is a great possibility that this will make a big mistake in politics, and only Stalin, Lin Jun and Kalinin dare to say it: it is not impossible to test it at the cost of certain interests, but this voluntary retreat also has its art.

Of course, everyone knows the personalities of Stalin and Lin Jun: settling accounts after the autumn is a certainty, and it will be extremely cruel!

Voroshinov glanced at Stalin's expression and seemed to have a little feeling: "I think we can study Comrade Andrei's proposal in depth, and if it is feasible, it will allow us to temporarily free up more forces to deal with the Western Front." ”

The first marshal of the Red Army was very shrewd, and he still had the vision of this strategic game, and his ability to observe words and colors was even more pure.

At this time, the People's Commissar of Defense is of the same opinion, and others will not have much opinion: now it is the first time in war.

"Let the General Staff study in depth, and Voroshinov will check it specifically." Stalin agreed: those who do great things can afford to let go, and if they don't quit forever, they will have to get back even the principal and interest when the time comes, and the interest will be so high that the current Finnish leadership is unimaginable! (To be continued.) )