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To: Homer_J_Simpson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannerheim_Line

The Mannerheim Line (Finnish: Mannerheim-linja) was a defensive fortification line on the Karelian Isthmus built by Finland against the Soviet Union. During the Winter War it became known as the Mannerheim Line, after Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim. The line was constructed in two phases: 1920–1924 and 1932–1939. By November 1939, when the Winter War began, the line was by no means complete.[1]


9 posted on 02/09/2010 5:24:38 AM PST by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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11 posted on 02/09/2010 7:02:01 PM PST by rdl6989 (January 20, 2013 The end of an error.)
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