The lid of a mess-tin and the rib-bones of a Russian soldier photographed at Leipäsuo in the Karelian Isthmus in March 1942. Apparently the incident involved a Russian infiltrator behind Finnish lines, and the victim was an Ingrian colleague. The photograph was captioned incorrectly in the print paper as being from 1943, but even in March 1942 Leipäsuo was very much in Finnish hands. In the early phase of the Continuation War, and during the Winter War, it was commonplace for large groups of Red Army infantry and armoured columns to be surrounded and effectively starved to death or wiped out by Finnish units more adept at moving in the terrain. Incidents of cannibalism were not that uncommon.
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