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Trenches near the River Svir, Karelian Front

Trenches near the River Svir, Karelian Front
Here we see Soviet troops advancing past trenches on the northern bank of the River Svir, during their succesful 1944 offensive. The Svir runs west from Lake Onega to Lake Lagoda, and was well to the south of the pre Winter War Finnish border. During the Continuation War the Finns advanced to the Svir, and past it for a short distance in some areas.
Finland's War of Choice - The Troubled German-Finnish Coalition in World War II, Henrik O. Lunde. A history of the Finnish 'Continuation War', which found the Finns fighting alongside the Germans in the Soviet Union, a democracy fighting alongside a dictatorship in perhaps the most brutal conflict in history. Looks at the background to Finnish entry into the war, their confused war aims, the course of the fighting and the eventual Finnish attempts to exit the war and survive as an independent nation. [read full review]
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How to cite this article: Rickard, J (19 April 2021), Trenches near the River Svir, Karelian Front , https://www.historyofwar.org/Pictures/pictures_trenches_river_svir.html

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