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] referred in his edit to (in Russian) which claims that "in 1945 Finns recognised the losses in Winter War as 48300 soldiers killed". However, I've been unable to find such Finnish source, and all sources based on the Finnish civil registry (Finland has had centralised civil registry for the whole duration of its independence) don't support such claims. The source referred by him also gets it wrong, as it claims that the Civil Guardsmen wouldn't be counted in the military casualties - while in fact the Civil Guard was a part of the Finnish Defence Forces organisation already. The Finnish war casualty registry website has Finnish casualties during WW2 quite thoroughly listed (including all Civil Guard, all Lotta Svärd, all civilian medical personnel and other civilians in FDF service and civilian casualties of the warzone as well, though apparently not all civilian casualties at the home front) based on the Finnish civil registry, and it doesn't support such claims. Without any Finnish source to support the claim of Finnish sources at the , combined to a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of the Finnish casualty statistics in the source, in my opinion the source referred by ] doesn't have enough credibility. --] (]) 08:57, 23 January 2020 (UTC) |
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:It is an old error in the Russian data, possibly due to translation issues. That being said i would be really interested if some one could kindly link or otherwise point to the document from which the Russian author claims to have taken the number in the first place. - ] (]) 11:12, 23 January 2020 (UTC) |
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::Yet the source ] refers to claims so, and it makes the source lose credibility (at least until ] provides where the claimed source of the , ''Танкомастер'' 2/97 journal, sources the claim to - though, I have been unable to find such a Finnish source claims it is attributed to), especially in light of the Finnish civili registry which has been very accurate for the whole independence era. 48 000, that is roughly double the amount of the consensus of around 26 000 casualties would be quite the revelation. --] (]) 12:09, 23 January 2020 (UTC) |
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::: I suppose this constitutes an act of heinous (auto-)necromancy, but I can answer this in some detail, thanks to a bit of original research I conducted on this very question. The "Finnish source" all these Russian sources cite is ]'s article in a Finnish journal where he states that Finnish military casualties in the war were 23000 and total, ''military and civilian'', casualties were 25000. This article was translated in a Soviet journal in 1989. The translator mistook the second figure for additional "''military civilian''" casualties (this is where all this mention of Civil Guard, Lotta Svärd and other non-regular military units comes from), effectively doubling the total number. From there, this figure has spread into many, many works by reputable Russian historians (including Krivosheev), where it seems to persist to this day - specifically as a "Finnish figure". It was a real pain keeping it out of the Finnish casualties bracket in the ruwiki article, since, technically, it was very well sourced there, whereas the fact that it comes from a translator error is pure original research by nameless Wikipedians. --] (]) 21:42, 28 October 2020 (UTC) |
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=== Real Finnish Casualties === |
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After WW2 Finns admited 48k casualtes, 25k is old WW2 propaganda source. According to official Soviet propaganda Soviet casualties were also significantly lower. |
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--] (]) 11:45, 23 January 2020 (UTC) |
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:Can you please provide a credible source to that "Finns admited 48k casualties", preferably the Finnish source? Finnish civil registries are almost completely exact, and over 20 000 unmarked deaths would be quite the revelation. Especially that the mortality in 1939 and 1940 was only roughly 25 000 more than the standard mortality according to our (in the graph, 1939 is the slightly alleviated over the 50 000 standard total mortality, 1940 is the first over 70 000 total mortality, 1941 the second over 70 000, 1942 and 1943 the two lower in between and 1944 again over 70 000 total mortality). Over 20 000 on top of that doesn't just suit anything in the civil registry. And not to mention how much your source lacks credibility - its claim that the Civil Guard, Lotta Svärd or non-combatant FDF casualties weren't counted is completely false. The Finnish war casualty registry website has Finnish casualties during WW2 quite thoroughly listed (including all Civil Guard, all Lotta Svärd, all civilian medical personnel and other civilians in FDF service and civilian casualties of the warzone as well, though apparently not all civilian casualties at the home front). --] (]) 12:09, 23 January 2020 (UTC) |
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:: Indeed - if that is referred to a Finnish source then for that claim to be credible we need to see that claimed Finnish source since the number that the particular Russian source uses contradicts many contemporary as well as current records. - ] (]) 12:21, 23 January 2020 (UTC) |
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::: So yeah, there you have it. --] (]) 21:42, 28 October 2020 (UTC) |
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] referred in his edit to (in Russian) which claims that "in 1945 Finns recognised the losses in Winter War as 48300 soldiers killed". However, I've been unable to find such Finnish source, and all sources based on the Finnish civil registry (Finland has had centralised civil registry for the whole duration of its independence) don't support such claims. The source referred by him also gets it wrong, as it claims that the Civil Guardsmen wouldn't be counted in the military casualties - while in fact the Civil Guard was a part of the Finnish Defence Forces organisation already. The Finnish war casualty registry website has Finnish casualties during WW2 quite thoroughly listed (including all Civil Guard, all Lotta Svärd, all civilian medical personnel and other civilians in FDF service and civilian casualties of the warzone as well, though apparently not all civilian casualties at the home front) based on the Finnish civil registry, and it doesn't support such claims. Without any Finnish source to support the claim of Finnish sources at the , combined to a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of the Finnish casualty statistics in the source, in my opinion the source referred by ] doesn't have enough credibility. --] (]) 08:57, 23 January 2020 (UTC) |
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:It is an old error in the Russian data, possibly due to translation issues. That being said i would be really interested if some one could kindly link or otherwise point to the document from which the Russian author claims to have taken the number in the first place. - ] (]) 11:12, 23 January 2020 (UTC) |
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::Yet the source ] refers to claims so, and it makes the source lose credibility (at least until ] provides where the claimed source of the , ''Танкомастер'' 2/97 journal, sources the claim to - though, I have been unable to find such a Finnish source claims it is attributed to), especially in light of the Finnish civili registry which has been very accurate for the whole independence era. 48 000, that is roughly double the amount of the consensus of around 26 000 casualties would be quite the revelation. --] (]) 12:09, 23 January 2020 (UTC) |
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::: I suppose this constitutes an act of heinous (auto-)necromancy, but I can answer this in some detail, thanks to a bit of original research I conducted on this very question. The "Finnish source" all these Russian sources cite is ]'s article in a Finnish journal where he states that Finnish military casualties in the war were 23000 and total, ''military and civilian'', casualties were 25000. This article was translated in a Soviet journal in 1989. The translator mistook the second figure for additional "''military civilian''" casualties (this is where all this mention of Civil Guard, Lotta Svärd and other non-regular military units comes from), effectively doubling the total number. From there, this figure has spread into many, many works by reputable Russian historians (including Krivosheev), where it seems to persist to this day - specifically as a "Finnish figure". It was a real pain keeping it out of the Finnish casualties bracket in the ruwiki article, since, technically, it was very well sourced there, whereas the fact that it comes from a translator error is pure original research by nameless Wikipedians. --] (]) 21:42, 28 October 2020 (UTC) |
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=== Real Finnish Casualties === |
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After WW2 Finns admited 48k casualtes, 25k is old WW2 propaganda source. According to official Soviet propaganda Soviet casualties were also significantly lower. |
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--] (]) 11:45, 23 January 2020 (UTC) |
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:Can you please provide a credible source to that "Finns admited 48k casualties", preferably the Finnish source? Finnish civil registries are almost completely exact, and over 20 000 unmarked deaths would be quite the revelation. Especially that the mortality in 1939 and 1940 was only roughly 25 000 more than the standard mortality according to our (in the graph, 1939 is the slightly alleviated over the 50 000 standard total mortality, 1940 is the first over 70 000 total mortality, 1941 the second over 70 000, 1942 and 1943 the two lower in between and 1944 again over 70 000 total mortality). Over 20 000 on top of that doesn't just suit anything in the civil registry. And not to mention how much your source lacks credibility - its claim that the Civil Guard, Lotta Svärd or non-combatant FDF casualties weren't counted is completely false. The Finnish war casualty registry website has Finnish casualties during WW2 quite thoroughly listed (including all Civil Guard, all Lotta Svärd, all civilian medical personnel and other civilians in FDF service and civilian casualties of the warzone as well, though apparently not all civilian casualties at the home front). --] (]) 12:09, 23 January 2020 (UTC) |
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:: Indeed - if that is referred to a Finnish source then for that claim to be credible we need to see that claimed Finnish source since the number that the particular Russian source uses contradicts many contemporary as well as current records. - ] (]) 12:21, 23 January 2020 (UTC) |
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::: So yeah, there you have it. --] (]) 21:42, 28 October 2020 (UTC) |
While in southern Lapland there are plenty of trees the further north they grew sparse. Link to a map 'Männyn puuraja' = 'Tree limit for pine', 'Männyn metsänraja' = "Forest limit for pine', 'Kuusen metsänraja' = 'Forest limit of spruce'. Beyond these limits there are just these Betula nana or 'dwarf birches' (which are not trees but rather twigs and small bushes) and limited amount (on sheltered locations) of Betula pubescens variants or hybrids called 'fell birches' which are typically around 2 to 6 meters tall a 'tree' (looks like a tree from distance but is in fact more like a tall bush). Plenty of exposed or elevated terrain in northern Finnish Lapland is however devoid of trees. The passage about there being no trees refers to the conditions faced when fighting in the Petsamo direction. - Wanderer602 (talk) 09:06, 27 June 2020 (UTC)
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Wouldn’t it be time for this article to put protection against anonymous vandals? This is, of course, just an opinion. —Kindt (talk) 12:07, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
After WW2 Finns admited 48k casualtes, 25k is old WW2 propaganda source. According to official Soviet propaganda Soviet casualties were also significantly lower.
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