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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (12 children)

NATO is gonna fail as hard as the nazis did when they tried to advance eastward. Sorry europe, not gonna work this time either.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (10 children)

i'm legitimately curious about this one, i always thought that finland aligned with nazi germany in order to help defend them in the winter war, but finland itself never really helped nazism or nazi germany in any capacity ๐Ÿค”

(though i never really delved into this topic, so i'm not sure)

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No probs! This is a very detailed account of the history, negotiations and details around the winter war. Remember also that Finland crushed their own workers revolts in 1919, and were part of the alliance attacking the USSR in the russian civil war / revolution, as they were to do again in ww2 alongside nazi germany.

The safety of Leningrad (which was within artillery range of Finland, and which had been attacked in the previous decades by Finland, Britain and Germany, and which Finland later assisted nazi germany in nearly starving leningrad's people to death), was the primary issue of the winter war.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

i see, thank you for the reply :)

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