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After training at altitude in the mountainous terrain of the Andes, the low altitude and almost flat terrain of Finland in winter seemed somewhat similar to Paradise for the tough Argentine soldiers – until they met the Russians….. “los rusos no eran niños chilenos de conejo” (“the Russians weren’t chilean bunny-boys”) as one Argentine soldier later said.

After training at altitude in the mountainous terrain of the Andes, the low altitude and almost flat terrain of Finland in winter seemed somewhat similar to Paradise for the tough Argentine soldiers – until they met the Russians….. “los rusos no eran niños chilenos de conejo” (“the Russians weren’t chilean bunny-boys”) as one Argentine soldier later said.

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