The […] public declaration of a “separate war” was immediately compromised, notably by Finnish defense propaganda: when Finland entered into Operation Barbarossa, Finland was imagined as fighting to save the New Europe—not exclusively Finland—from the “Asian plague.” Given the paradox of fighting a “separate war” to install the racially privileged New Europe, it is difficult not to see an ideological convergence that goes well beyond a merely pragmatic, military relationship between the “brothers-in-arms.”

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