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They were a far right country with Lebensraum like aspirations on the border of one of the USSR’s biggest population centers. Stalin did not feel like that was a good state of affairs
wrong side won the finnish civil war :sicko-wistful:
Basically, USSR wanted some buffer territory in Karelian Isthmus to protect Leningrad, while Finland understandably didn’t want to give it up. It was very shitty but probably necessary action.
It was very shitty but probably necessary action.
I mean the nazis ended up nearly taking Leningrad anyway. Seems like it would have been smarter for the Soviet’s to save all those resources for making a “buffer zone” and just build some big ass magonet line along the border.
They literally did, but due to close proximity to border, it was vulnerable. Nevertheless, it did played an important role in stopping Finnish offensive on Karelian Isthmus in 1941.
The Maginot Line, a famous story of success :-/
I guess the lesson here is that they had no good options.
I mean not a literal maginot line, but yeah know, I think beefing up defense maybe would have been a better strat than throwing so much into making all these buffers that the Nazis ended up blowing through in like a week.
Here’s a bit of info in english
This and this are in finnish and mostly concern the Winter War.
If you want to read about the time between 1917 and 1945 to get overall feel for fascist as fuck Finland there’s this and this again in finnish.
I recommend https://www.deepl.com/Translator or Google translate might work too.
edit: also had this bookmarked, it’s in english.
