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Originally posted by ANZAC:
As it says it looks as though the war against the Finns had become too costly for Stalin who needed the men elsewhere, to fight the Germans. He could not fully achieve his objectives with the amount of troops he could afford to spend against the Finns and in the time he had to do it, so he had to drop the request for unconditional surrender.
It looks as though Stalin could never learn from past mistake's in the Winter war when he got a bloody nose with twice that many men.
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I would not consider Stalin as loosing the war in Finland by any means or "getting a bloody nose" like I said Staling just wanted to push the border back for the safety of St. Petersburg. Whether it was the right thing to do can be desputed. If Stalin really wanted to take Finland he would off after the war when the Soviets liberated it from the Nazis.
Sorry Anzac I dont agree.