Quote Originally Posted by jmm99 View Post
One of the factors giving rise to the division's formation was the relative success of Finnish skiers in the Winter War.
I didn't know they had tall mountains in Finland, so for the first time in my life I must be wrong again. Blame it on our insular American culture in which we have little awareness of foreign peoples and places. No wonder the Soviets had all the trouble they did in Finland, what with all of those 14,000-foot mountain ranges and such that they have there.