Thread: Finnish Ski Troops Vs Soviet sailors at Leningrad
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Old January 30th, 2008, 12:31 AM
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Default Re: Finnish Ski Troops Vs Soviet sailors at Leningrad
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Originally Posted by Chuikov64th View Post
Never heard of it. Where was this supposed to have happened? On lake Ladoga or on the Baltic? To my knowledge the Russians never lost any ships or barges to ice on the lake, bombs yes. Oct, Nov was when they took them off because of freezing. Possible but I haven't heard of it.

This is where I read about this "The Volga rises in Europe" by Curzio Malaparte. In it he stated that there were incidents where Finnish Ski patrols had some engagements out on the ice with ski equipped Soviet sailors from Soviet ships of the Baltic Fleet that were stranded in the ice during the Siege of Leningrad. I was hoping that there might be some more information out there on this.
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