 After the end of the war , the situation of the Finnish army on the Karelian Isthmus had been the subject of debate in Finland . Orders were already issued to prepare a retreat to the next line of defence in the Taipale sector . Estimates of how long the Red Army could have been held in these kinds of retreat @-@ and @-@ stand operations varied from a few days to a few weeks , or to a couple of months at most . 
