in 2004, according to the results of voting by finnish television viewers. former ss man lauri törnis ranked 52nd on the list of the 100 greatest finns. according to barbaros's plan, finland was supposed to pin down as many russian forces as possible on both sides of lake ladazh. he performed this task very conscientiously. in 1942, the german command decided to destroy the road to life with a surprise attack from finnish territory. the operation was codenamed "brazil". her main goal was our dry island, which was the key to all southern part of lake ladazh. if successful, leningrad was doomed to the second. the italians, like the finns, were supposed to cover the germans during the landing on the island. the enemy flotilla attacked sukha island at dawn on october 22, 1944, and some of the german paratroopers managed to land ashore. the island's garrison, numbering about 90 people, offered them fierce resistance. when the battle turned into hand-to-hand combat, our pilots and sailors of the ladazh flotilla came to the aid of the island’s defenders. of the thirty enemy ships, 16 were d