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To: ManyMoose who wrote (1041)	3/27/2007 10:08:32 PM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 6879

This atrocious Russian translation cracks me up! If the Soviets had used moose cavalry, the Germans would have died laughing!... <g> Nevertheless, time after time, attempts to breed a new domestic animal are undertaken. Swedish army had moose troops, but only until real battles. Moose turned out to be wiser then their knights, they left battlefield to hide in the nearest forest if danger occured. After several hundreds of years this experience was unlearnt. When the USSR decided to become worldwide, in the 1930s, war-moose were expected to solve the problem of deep snow cross-country cavalry passability. Moose were trained to carry armed riders and not to be gun-shy. The work hardly could be done before Soviet-Finnish war (1939-1940), and, only several years later, the Second World war revealed that the cavalry became only a pix. moosefarm.newmail.ru comrade_snowshoe@moccasins_and_saddles.com