Post #1731392
2026-04-26 16:55 UTC
Did something happen prior to that which may have made Finland less than friendly to the Soviet Union?
I wonder why they may not have wanted to ally with the country that just invaded them.
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@RiverRock@lemmy.ml 2026-04-26 16:57
Are you excusing them for fighting enthusiatically alongside the Nazis in WW2?
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@dessalines@lemmy.ml 2026-04-26 17:11
Finland was one of the front lines of the Russian revolution, and the whites used finland as a base of monarchist assaults and intrigues against the world’s first socialist state. The finnish communists then unfortunately lost their civil war, the finns then killed all their communists and made the communist party illegal, and became one of the fascist / reactionary powers in the 30s like nazi germany. Territorial disputes between the whites and reds escalated during the 30s leading to the winter wars, which finland lost, then ww2, which finland also lost. You are again siding with the reactionary side of history.