The Finns lost the winter war, then ate more soviet boot when they fought with the nazis to genocide Leningrad.

Much like Sherman in the South, Stalin didn’t go far enough with the Finns

    • BelieveRevolt [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      4 months ago

      That’s one I haven’t heard, usually it’s “proof how much Stalin hated Ukrainians, he forced them to die in Finland by threatening them with his big spoon”.

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        it was something about how they were driven by the stalin-comical-spoon to push them into the lines of our brave heroic finnish heroes and crashed upon them like waves dying in the thousands, but they definitely should’ve deserted to our glorious side instead of attacking us at all, actually.

        the mind of the nationalistic finn is a pathway to many stories, some which may appear…fanciful