Thread: Finland had captured Leningrad
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Old July 13th, 2002, 01:09 AM
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Originally posted by Carl Von Mannerheim:
U guys from the Strat Comm. Forum are sick of Finns. But what do you think wouldve happened had the Finns raced ahead in summer of 1941, depite the germans telling them not to, and captured leningrad before it was made into a fortress.
I was always under the impression that the Germans wanted the Fins to help seal off Lenningrad.But the Finns only wanted to take back the land Russia took from them. When this was achieved they halted as hey wanted nothing to do with the Nazis aims
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