Originally posted by Boroda
I mentioned Tanner's book, "Winter War", didn't I?
Migrant camps did exist. Agree?
Ethnic segregation did exist in Karelia occupied by Finland. Agree?
Finns held a part of the frontline NW from Leningrad,
Does these things have anything to do with my reply?
We've allready talked about this stuff at lenght and I've already explained my stance at these issues. Go search the old threads. You claimed how the Soviet Union didn't have time to evacuate all the remote regions like Karelia and that was the reason why civillians were left behind.
After your claim I've done some recearch and according to one established historian (C-F Geust)...the whole term "evacuation" of civillians from the areas that were being occupied was fairly unknown in Soviet Union. And it was in fact considered somewhat shameful to leave your home and "run" away.
I've already said that finns didn't really afford to have civillian population from enemy country behind the lines to "get shot in the back" by. We already had enough Soviet partisans killing finnish civillians as it was.
Like I said...you simply can't change....or maybe you can but it is a slow process.
