Finns, as well as Poles, are laughably quick to forget that the only reason their countries are independent is because in 1917, the Russian Socialist Federation of Soviet Republics, i.e. the Bolsheviks, literally days after the October revolution, created a constitution granting the right to self-determination and unilateral secession to all peoples of the former Russian empire. If it hadn’t been for the Bolsheviks they so despise, their countries would very likely be part of some modern Russian state (either an empire or a constitutional monarchy of sorts).
Finns, as well as Poles, are laughably quick to forget that the only reason their countries are independent is because in 1917, the Russian Socialist Federation of Soviet Republics, i.e. the Bolsheviks, literally days after the October revolution, created a constitution granting the right to self-determination and unilateral secession to all peoples of the former Russian empire. If it hadn’t been for the Bolsheviks they so despise, their countries would very likely be part of some modern Russian state (either an empire or a constitutional monarchy of sorts).
Stalin (the Red Army) saved the Polish people from complete extermination and Polish nationalists will never forgive him for it.