Yesterday, I watched a Douban 7.8 movie called "The Unknown Soldier", the film is based on a best-selling novel of the same name, telling the story of a Finnish soldier in the Soviet-Finnish War, the film is quite OK, but at the same time after watching the movie, I have an idea, that is, why finland, such a small country, can seriously damage the Soviet army? Today, I will analyze it carefully
According to the thinking of ordinary people, the Soviet Union is a completely large country, with military strength far exceeding Finland, but what about Finland? To put it mildly, it is a country that is too small to be small, but in fact the war situation is completely reversed, and the war has been fought for only a few months, with 25,000 casualties in Finland, while the Soviet side has suffered nearly 380,000 casualties, including countless dead soldiers.
So why did a small country like Finland be able to wreak havoc on the Soviet Union? First of all, I think that the Soviet side has despised its opponent too much, and like me personally, I think that Finland is a small European country that cannot be smaller, and its military strength is very fragile, so when it invaded Finland, it was not fully prepared, which also laid a fuse for the subsequent defeat in the battle.
Because of the strategic contempt, so in terms of intelligence is also neglected to investigate, Finland itself belongs to the kind of geographical conditions are very complex place, not only all kinds of forests and hills, rainy days, even traffic is a problem, such an environment, so that the Soviet heavy weapons can play a very effective role here, but the Soviet Union did not conduct a special investigation of these things.
Of course, there is also a place that has been overlooked by everyone, that is, the railway between the Soviet Union and Finland, when the Soviet Union and Finland only had one railway. In fact, the reason is also very simple, unlike the current sea, land and air logistics, most of the army logistics of that meeting are transported by rail, and the result of this railway is to seriously limit the logistics supply of the army.
Like the German army in World War II, the Soviet Union also made a mistake, that is, to choose to launch an attack in the winter, the winter in Finland is similar to the Winter in the Soviet Union, it is snowy, under the influence of the weather, it directly leads to the marching speed of the Soviet army is very slow, the Soviet Union's heavily armored troops are even more like snails, it is difficult to move, in these cases, even if the Soviet Union has the heart, I am afraid it will not be able to eat Finland!