Fire and Ice: The Winter War of Finland and Russia

00:01:11 I belong to a Red Army reenactors club in St. Petersburg, and we perform

00:05:01 Dr. Tomas Reis National Defence College, Finland

00:15:49 and gave me a small flower that I put into the breast pocket of my uniform.

00:16:12 build barbed wire obstacles, and dugouts.

00:16:45 Erkki Palosuo, veteran

00:17:19 Aulikki Olsen, Veteran, Lotta Svärd

00:24:04 It was a crazy defensive tactic.

00:26:03 made a statement that since Finland has fewer inhabitants than Leningrad

00:29:39 The beds were not good.

00:30:13 Elsa Vanhala Veteran, Lotta Svärd

00:36:38 We were firing at them as much as we could with our Suomi machine guns and our light machine guns and our rifles.

00:41:16 We guessed all kind of things and he said you don't know anything.

00:44:51 in which the Finnish Army won a victory in the Winter War

00:45:40 I still wonder how we survived under those conditions.

00:46:10 We were fighting in our country and in familiar surroundings.

00:47:58 The battle lasted the whole night and we could not see anything. We just fired at muzzle flashes.

00:52:59 The prisoners who came out of the dugouts were apathetic. Hungry exhausted.

00:53:34 their eyes plucked out of their heads and then killed.

00:55:16 even to the hooves.

01:03:37 It felt like hell. Of course, I have not actually been there

01:07:56 when we were driven to the end of our energy when we were absolutely exhausted.

01:09:50 Tami Leinonen Karelian Refugee

01:12:24 I have to say it would have felt really bad if these had been our own boys

01:14:42 which designs they would completely abandon and which they would continue to develop.