The Red Air Force was cut to pieces during the winter war by Finland's rag tag assortment of fighters. Their attempt at strategic bombing on Helsinki was a total failure and managed only minimal damage despite employing a huge number of bombers. This is really incredibly surprising given that on paper, the Russians, with their overwhelming numbers of aircraft, huge supply of fuel and proximity to Finland, should have been able to devastate Finnish targets, including airfields, yet they never seemed able to find them and destroy them, even when the target was a city. Could the Soviet bombers have conceivably done a more effective job against the Finns, perhaps even effective enough to affect the course of the winter war?