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

00:05:06 William Trotter Author Frozen Hell

00:15:53 She thanked me.

00:16:24 We had 32 old Renault tanks, no longer fit for combat

00:16:50 that could only fly 160 km/h

00:23:10 From the diary of Private Tauno Pukka, 3rd independent infantry Battalion, Finland

00:24:17 jamming a log into a tank's treads.

00:29:26 When they first arrived, they were first given a bath, taken to sauna

00:30:08 and we made helmet liners out of wool.

00:36:31 The Red Army soldiers were very brave, there's no doubt about it.

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

00:45:47 We were young then and we were very different from modern young people

00:46:13 Every Finn knew how to ski

00:51:41 Kalevi Juntunen Veteran, Suomussalmi

00:53:17 And the first thing we did, we offered them a cigarette.

00:55:02 It was really horrible. The Russians had many horses

00:59:23 Stalin, in his effort to cleanse the Red Army had destroyed

01:07:28 I was encouraging the guys keep going, to ski on but I was so exhausted that I fell asleep there standing up.

01:09:41 I only wish we could maintain our freedom!"

01:12:22 Raino Kurtti Veteran, Suomussalmi

01:14:37 they made decisions about which tanks they would continue to use and how they would use them