Kris

“Stalin was especially furious with the "Leningrad Clique" of Zhdanov, who had assured him that the Finnish war would amount to little more than a police action, a nuisance that could be concluded in two weeks.”
― William R. Trotter, A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940

“The Soviet propaganda apparatus continued to crank out shrill, contorted documents attempting to convince whoever was listening that Finland was the real aggressor, that the Kuusinen government was legitimate, and the Mannerheim/Tanner/Ryti regime was enslaving the workers, etc.”
― William R. Trotter, A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940

“We have each other and for all I know that's what hope is.”
― James Goldman, The Lion in Winter

“All told, Finnish fighter pilots shot down 240 confirmed Red aircraft, against the loss of 26 of their own planes. It was standard practice to send at least one interceptor up to meet every Russian bomber sortie within range. Not infrequently the appearance of a single Fokker caused an entire squadron of SB-2s to jettison its bombs into the snow and turn tail.”
― William R. Trotter, A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940