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The Fates are kind.
by Gaianne on Fri Jun 15th, 2007 at 05:12:42 PM EST
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Finland fought two wars against the Soviet Union as an 'ally' of Germany, but then came with an armistice and harsh terms....

"The third war Finland had to fight was the Lapland War, where we were now up against our once brothers in arms. How we ended up in this situation was neither the Finns' nor the Germans' fault. It was the Finnish-Soviet armistice that was the culprit. The Soviet Union had insisted on a clause requiring Finns to disarm the Germans that were still within Finnish territory. This had to be completed in virtually no time and to top it off, the final provision of the clause stated that the Red Army was ready and able to provide assistance. And so we had no other choice except to start fighting because there were Soviet troops at three locations on Finnish territory, poised to intervene. Had this been allowed to happen, Finland would have been occupied."

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Fri Jun 15th, 2007 at 05:32:54 PM EST
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The Germans basically went scorched earth on us as they withdrew. The northern city of Rovaniemi was completely destroyed, for example.

And then they wonder why we're so anti-war. Pfff.

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror" - Oscar Wilde

by NordicStorm (m<-at->sturmbaum.net) on Sat Jun 16th, 2007 at 04:25:02 AM EST
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