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Arctic Trip - New tyre needed
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<blockquote data-quote="Tom Gaynor" data-source="post: 5069" data-attributes="member: 4034"><p><strong>Finns</strong></p><p></p><p>It was the Red Army's first war after Stalin had "cleansed it of reactionary elements", i.e. anyone who knew what they were doing. Soviet losses were collossal, Finnish losses minimal.</p><p>This from an interesting book I've been reading which discusses, among other things, the reasons the US didn't come in to WWII earlier. It was partly (but by no means wholly) because they would have been wiped out. In 1939 the US had the world's 17th biggest army, at 17,000 men. Holland was 16th......</p><p>To give a sense of scale, at Dunkirk, we rescued the defeated remnants of our army, a remnant ten times bigger than the US army at the time.</p><p>Odd, really. History bored the arse off me when I was at school. My mother (born 1912, and actually saw a Zeppelin) used to say she'd lived through "the war to end wars", WWI, and at school history stopped at the Romans. My own education was similiar.</p><p>And what have the Romans done for us, I hear you ask........</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tom Gaynor, post: 5069, member: 4034"] [b]Finns[/b] It was the Red Army's first war after Stalin had "cleansed it of reactionary elements", i.e. anyone who knew what they were doing. Soviet losses were collossal, Finnish losses minimal. This from an interesting book I've been reading which discusses, among other things, the reasons the US didn't come in to WWII earlier. It was partly (but by no means wholly) because they would have been wiped out. In 1939 the US had the world's 17th biggest army, at 17,000 men. Holland was 16th...... To give a sense of scale, at Dunkirk, we rescued the defeated remnants of our army, a remnant ten times bigger than the US army at the time. Odd, really. History bored the arse off me when I was at school. My mother (born 1912, and actually saw a Zeppelin) used to say she'd lived through "the war to end wars", WWI, and at school history stopped at the Romans. My own education was similiar. And what have the Romans done for us, I hear you ask........ [/QUOTE]
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