TheCodeBreakers
Silence followed, and soon
thereafter the Swedish cryptanalysts learned that the Finns had crushed
them. Another Russian battalion sent a coded message that they were
desperately short of supplies and would build three fires in a triangle to
show the Red Air Force where to parachute desperately needed food and
ammunition. The Swedes solved it and gave it to the Finns, who built a
triangle of fires and watched with bitter satisfaction as the packages
floated down into it.
Swarms of Russian Air Force cryptograms were downed by the
Swedish codebreakers. Many were orders to bomb Helsinki, and often
these were solved before the bombers took off from airfields in Latvia and
Estonia for the 20-minute flight to their target. Finnish authorities thus
had ample time to sound air-raid alerts; as a result the capital suffered
exceptionally light civilian casualties considering the number of bombs
dropped.
But little Finland was no match for the colossal U.S.S.R. despite her
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