We wallow in the past because we can't bear the present and don't think about the future.
What proportion of the Finnish population did all those deaths represent, btw? "Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky
Still, bringing home all the dead may have been an easier job than for countries with fallen in the hundreds of thousands or in the millions. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
