The Archive · 1941

Holding Extensive Manoeuvres Near Finland

London, June 21. RED Army contingents yesterday were engaged in military exercises in the regions where the war with Finland was fought and near where the Germans carried out their campaign against Poland, Radio Moscow announced last night.

"The best fighting units are being shifted from the Red Army and are being given special assignments," the radio broadcast stated.

"The exercises included forced marches by whole regiments over a distance of some 130 miles across marshes, and night mock battles with enemy' tanks and cavalry."

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