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and Karelians that lived in the Leningrad military district. By the beginning of the war Anttila’s corps,
which consisted of two twin regimental divisions, numbered 13,405 personnel. However, there were
not enough Finns and Karelians; therefore many Russians and Ukrainians, especially officers, were
entered in the roster as Finns and Karelians. For example, the corps’ chief of staff, Brigade Commander
F. N. Romanov, was named “Raikas,” and the headquarters’ political department chief, Regimental
Commissar V. P. Tereshkin, was called “Tervonen.”
3. Volkovski, Secrets and Lessons of the Winter War, 1939–1940, 138. Kuusinen’s wife, Aino, was impris-
oned in jails and camps from 1938 until 1955.
4. “Diplomatic Note of the USSR Government, handed to the Envoy of Finland, concerning provocative
shelling of Soviet troops by Finnish Military Units,” Izvestia (November 27, 1939.
5. Soviet Military Encyclopedia, 7: 419.
6. G. F. Krivosheev, ed., Russia and the USSR in the Twentieth-Century Wars: Armed Forces Losses (A
Statistical Study) (Moscow: Olma Press, 2001), 213.
7. e Winter War, 1939–40, 2: 53.
8. L. Rendulic, Commanding the Troops (Moscow: Voyenizdat, 1974), 189.
9. Shunkov, Red Army’s Weapons, 230–31; e Great Patriotic War, 1941–1945: Encyclopedia, 516. e
weight of the B-4 type concrete piercing shell from the 1939 203-mm howitzer was 100 kg.
10. In theory, a 203-mm howitzer did have a normal firing speed of one shell per minute, but in the difficult
conditions of the Finnish winter, the real firing speed was lower.
11. e Winter War, 1939–40, 2: 222.
12. Ibid., 239.
13. Admissions and Revelations: Nazi Leaders on the ird Reich’s War against the USSR: Secret Speeches,
Diaries, Memoirs (Smolensk, Russia: Rusich, 2000), 195–96, 199.
14. Ibid., 195.
15. e Winter War, 1939–40, 1: 376.
16. Piker, Hitler’s Table Talks, 205.

Chapter 23
Epigraph: Halder, War Diary, entry for June 30, 1941.
1. Albert Speer, Memoirs (Smolensk, Russia: Russich, 1997), 312–13.
2. N. V. Alisov and B. S. Khorev, Economic and Social Geography of the World (Moscow: Gardariki, 2001),
448; History of the Second World War, 1939–1945, 3: 282. irty percent of the German metallurgical
industry’s demand for iron ore was supplied by Sweden.
3. e Red Banner Baltic Fleet in the Battle for Leningrad (Moscow: Nauka, 1973), 8.
4. VIZh, no. 3 (1973): 78.
5. F. Ruge, War on the Sea, 1939–1945 (Moscow: Voyenizdat, 1957), 209.
6. “Testimony of the Admiral of the Soviet Union Fleet, I. S. Isaakov,” Znamia [Banner], no. 5 (1988):
77.
7. e Great Patriotic War, 1941–1945: Encyclopedia, 75.
8. VIZh, no. 4 (1962): 34.
9. e Warpath of the Soviet Navy (Moscow: Voyenizdat, 1974), 537.
10. Piker, Hitler’s Table Talks, 348 (entry made on June 5, 1942).
11. History of the Second World War, 1939–1945, 4: 329.
12. e Year 1941, 1: 418–23.

Chapter 24
Epigraph: Piker, Hitler’s Table Talks, 303.
1. History of the Second World War, 1939–1945, 3: 231–32.
2. Ibid., 10: 17.
3. Piker, Hitler’s Table Talks, 477 (entry made on June 27, 1942).
4. e Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and Its Consequences for Bessarabia: A Collection of Documents (Chişinău,
Moldova: 1991), 51.
5. Foreign Affairs Documents: 1940–22 June 1941 (Moscow: Mezhdunarodnye Otnoshenia, 1998), 23: 1:
519–20.