Didn’t know the Cambodians, Polish, Kalmyks, Kazakhs, Tatars, Ukrainians, Anarchists, Left SRs, Trotskyists and Peasants were all Nazis. Must be fun to live in that world.
The USSR hadn’t started the Winter War under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact it signed on friendly terms with Nazi Germany to grab more land while the rest of Europe wasn’t in a position to help, killing and wounding tens of thousands of Finns
The USSR hadn’t stolen 10% of Finland’s land in exchange for what can generously be described as a “promise” of peace
The USSR hadn’t scuttled Finland’s attempts afterward to develop a defensive pact with Norway and Sweden
The USSR hadn’t invaded and absorbed the Baltic states as part of the same pact with Nazi Germany
The USSR hadn’t demanded mineral rights already given to the UK and then instigated riots in Finland when they didn’t get what they wanted
The USSR hadn’t interfered with the December 1940 Finnish election
The USSR had offered to return Finland’s land when it realized “oh no, the consequences of my own actions: Finland is allied militarily with Nazi Germany now.”
The USSR had been on friendly terms with Finland instead of giving them what every serious historian describes as no realistic opportunity not to ally with Germany
That maybe they wouldn’t have been forced to ally with Germany in the Continuation War? That Finland might have remained neutral or even joined in with the Allies which the Soviets were a part of? You can even look in the article you’re linking to:
As a part of the pact, Nazi SS chief Heinrich Himmler insisted that the Finns dispatch [1408] soldiers to the SS Wiking division similar to the volunteers it demanded from Nazi-occupied Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway and elsewhere.
Reluctantly, Finns complied and covertly recruited the first group of 400 SS volunteers to be sent for training.
The leading Finnish military historians who undertook the probe into the country’s wartime role wrote that those Finnish troops likely witnessed shootings and other atrocities against Jews and other civilians by advancing Nazi troops.
This was all done reluctantly. The Finns had no ideological alignment with the Nazis; it was done purely out of necessity because of the USSR’s – again – nakedly imperialist actions. You have zero intellectual integrity. None. Your rhetoric relies not on a convincing argument but on the reader’s ignorance. And I’m not even a little surprised to see you sticking up for Putin’s genocidal invasion of Ukraine elsewhere.
Edit: Also, where the hell did “only doing it to fight communism” come from? I said the exact opposite: that they were doing it in self-defense against Soviet imperialist aggression. What?
So you just stated that Russia was imperialistic. That in itself should give you more context about the kind of nation Russia was. Communism is a way of thought not anyone nation. Think more critically about what you say.
Post says: “communists killed”. Not “communism killed”. The USSR were communists. The Finns were innocent when the USSR invaded them. Communists killed tens of thousands of innocents in that invasion. The entire aim of this post is to disingenuously suggest that anytime someone brings up the innocent victims of the USSR, they’re actually defending the Nazis killed in WWII.
Didn’t know the Cambodians, Polish, Kalmyks, Kazakhs, Tatars, Ukrainians, Anarchists, Left SRs, Trotskyists and Peasants were all Nazis. Must be fun to live in that world.
The Finns who died defending their homeland from naked, opportunistic Soviet imperialism also wish to say hi.
Ah yes, the poor innocent nazi aligned fins “only doing it to fight communism.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-11/report-finds-finnish-soldiers-were-complicit-in-wwii-atrocities/10798222
Have you ever – even once – thought that if:
That maybe they wouldn’t have been forced to ally with Germany in the Continuation War? That Finland might have remained neutral or even joined in with the Allies which the Soviets were a part of? You can even look in the article you’re linking to:
This was all done reluctantly. The Finns had no ideological alignment with the Nazis; it was done purely out of necessity because of the USSR’s – again – nakedly imperialist actions. You have zero intellectual integrity. None. Your rhetoric relies not on a convincing argument but on the reader’s ignorance. And I’m not even a little surprised to see you sticking up for Putin’s genocidal invasion of Ukraine elsewhere.
Edit: Also, where the hell did “only doing it to fight communism” come from? I said the exact opposite: that they were doing it in self-defense against Soviet imperialist aggression. What?
So you just stated that Russia was imperialistic. That in itself should give you more context about the kind of nation Russia was. Communism is a way of thought not anyone nation. Think more critically about what you say.
Post says: “communists killed”. Not “communism killed”. The USSR were communists. The Finns were innocent when the USSR invaded them. Communists killed tens of thousands of innocents in that invasion. The entire aim of this post is to disingenuously suggest that anytime someone brings up the innocent victims of the USSR, they’re actually defending the Nazis killed in WWII.
That’s not what you wrote though. You biased is showing.