Certainly can’t think of any other nations that are or were in the EU who did shit like this in the 40’s.
Speaking of which… This is 1944. The savvy history buff might know that the Winter War ended before then, and ask themselves why Karelia is burning in that case?
The Finns knew beyond doubt about the Holocaust, and they chose to help the nation enacting it out of self interest.
Cope.
You’d be better off pointing out that the President and fascist sympathizer that enacted that alliance was put on trial when the Finns swapped sides after they saw the Nazis were losing and convicted for his crimes, and that they, like Franco and some nations in the Balkans, mostly didn’t comply with Nazi demands to hand over their Jewish population, so in terms of “Aiding the Holocaust” guilt they’re somewhere between Vichy France and Fascist Italy.
You’d be better off pointing out that the President and fascist sympathizer that enacted that alliance was put on trial when the Finns swapped sides after they saw the Nazis were losing and convicted for his crimes,
The idea that Risto Ryti was a fascist sympathizer is… a reach.
and that they, like Franco and some nations in the Balkans, mostly didn’t comply with Nazi demands to hand over their Jewish population, so in terms of “Aiding the Holocaust” guilt they’re somewhere between Vichy France and Fascist Italy.
Finland is… between Vichy France and Fascist Italy in Holocaust guilt?
Vichy France and Fascist Italy both gleefully shipped off their Jewish populations to be murdered. The Finns took a horrific side, but at no point did they give up their own Jewish citizens to the Nazis.
Vichy France and Fascist Italy were both much more gruesome and eager collaborators.
Finland is slightly better than the Soviet Union in that their Nazi collaboration was in response to a mass campaign of ethnic cleansing (of almost half a million Finns expelled by the Soviets after the unjustified aggression of the Winter War) rather than preceded by a mass campaign of ethnic cleansing (of Poles in the USSR by the Soviets before the joint Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland). Both remain unconscionable.
1: If “sympathizer” is a reach it’s only because “collaborator and ally” is more damning and accurate.
2: And Italy was divided enough over fascism to fight a civil war and have a native resistance when offered a chance, instead of swapping sides when it was clear their preferred side was losing. They still willingly and knowingly enabled the Holocaust, and a war with the Soviets that they knew was both ideologically and racially motivated with plans for extermination and mass slavery.
If you’d like some reading on the topic of their knowing collaboration with the Nazi plans:
Do you know why? Who decided not help Finland to kick the Soviets out of the territory they took? The USA and UK, because you clowns were helping the number 2 ranked murderer, Stalin and sick Bolsheviks. Finland had no choice but to ask fucking Hitler for help. The disgusting part, the Americans and British already knew who the next enemy was after the Nazis were finished off. I always laugh at the Americans who believe in fighting for “Freedom and Democracy,” what a load of bullshit. The Suomi were building a democracy and they were attacked with US military aid sent to the fucking Soviets.
Whatever lets you sleep at night, but we both know you’d have been the coward in the village pretending they don’t know why no one comes out of the camps.
Tilting at a strawman only impresses fools, and only liars pretend to believe a non-aggression pact is an alliance, but feel free to prove what no legitimate historian has ever claimed.
Fun Fact btw, Mr. Civilian Casualties:
There have been 12,000 civilian deaths in Ukraine so far (not that one is justified).
How many has Israel killed in a year?
How many died in Iraq and Afghanistan?
How many died because Finland decided to actually ally with fucking Nazis in 1940 and your tiny little brain can’t comprehend there is literally no justification for that possible?
Seems like you couldn’t give less of a shit about “murdering civilians without pause” when it’s your tribe doing it.
Fuck Russia. Nobody with a sane mind in the EU wants the worthless destructive Muscovites to return.
Certainly can’t think of any other nations that are or were in the EU who did shit like this in the 40’s.
Speaking of which… This is 1944. The savvy history buff might know that the Winter War ended before then, and ask themselves why Karelia is burning in that case?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation_War
Oh, look at who Finland is allies with!
Damn, I wonder why the Finns would ally with the nazis after being brutally attacked just a few years earlier
The Finns knew beyond doubt about the Holocaust, and they chose to help the nation enacting it out of self interest.
Cope.
You’d be better off pointing out that the President and fascist sympathizer that enacted that alliance was put on trial when the Finns swapped sides after they saw the Nazis were losing and convicted for his crimes, and that they, like Franco and some nations in the Balkans, mostly didn’t comply with Nazi demands to hand over their Jewish population, so in terms of “Aiding the Holocaust” guilt they’re somewhere between Vichy France and Fascist Italy.
The idea that Risto Ryti was a fascist sympathizer is… a reach.
Finland is… between Vichy France and Fascist Italy in Holocaust guilt?
Vichy France and Fascist Italy both gleefully shipped off their Jewish populations to be murdered. The Finns took a horrific side, but at no point did they give up their own Jewish citizens to the Nazis.
Vichy France and Fascist Italy were both much more gruesome and eager collaborators.
Finland is slightly better than the Soviet Union in that their Nazi collaboration was in response to a mass campaign of ethnic cleansing (of almost half a million Finns expelled by the Soviets after the unjustified aggression of the Winter War) rather than preceded by a mass campaign of ethnic cleansing (of Poles in the USSR by the Soviets before the joint Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland). Both remain unconscionable.
1: If “sympathizer” is a reach it’s only because “collaborator and ally” is more damning and accurate.
2: And Italy was divided enough over fascism to fight a civil war and have a native resistance when offered a chance, instead of swapping sides when it was clear their preferred side was losing. They still willingly and knowingly enabled the Holocaust, and a war with the Soviets that they knew was both ideologically and racially motivated with plans for extermination and mass slavery.
If you’d like some reading on the topic of their knowing collaboration with the Nazi plans:
https://humanityinaction.org/knowledge_detail/helsinki-on-the-brink-finland-and-the-holocaust-era/
I think they do a pretty good job of staying as unbiased as possible in it.
3: It wasn’t an ethnic cleansing, it was a voluntary evacuation.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evacuation_of_Finnish_Karelia
Though, of course, that half a million people voluntarily evacuated rather than being part of Stalin’s USSR says a lot in itself.
Do you know why? Who decided not help Finland to kick the Soviets out of the territory they took? The USA and UK, because you clowns were helping the number 2 ranked murderer, Stalin and sick Bolsheviks. Finland had no choice but to ask fucking Hitler for help. The disgusting part, the Americans and British already knew who the next enemy was after the Nazis were finished off. I always laugh at the Americans who believe in fighting for “Freedom and Democracy,” what a load of bullshit. The Suomi were building a democracy and they were attacked with US military aid sent to the fucking Soviets.
Cut a liberal and a fascist bleeds.
Cut an anarchist and a Russian stooge bleeds
Whatever lets you sleep at night, but we both know you’d have been the coward in the village pretending they don’t know why no one comes out of the camps.
Russia joined Nazi Germany in an alliance during WW2.
Russia is murdering civilians without pause and you are okay with this.
Your brand of anarchy is garbage.
Tilting at a strawman only impresses fools, and only liars pretend to believe a non-aggression pact is an alliance, but feel free to prove what no legitimate historian has ever claimed.
Fun Fact btw, Mr. Civilian Casualties:
There have been 12,000 civilian deaths in Ukraine so far (not that one is justified).
How many has Israel killed in a year?
How many died in Iraq and Afghanistan?
How many died because Finland decided to actually ally with fucking Nazis in 1940 and your tiny little brain can’t comprehend there is literally no justification for that possible?
Seems like you couldn’t give less of a shit about “murdering civilians without pause” when it’s your tribe doing it.
What is it you would call coordinating military efforts against a common foe?
It would seem it has a different name when the Finns and the Nazis do it than when the Soviets and the Nazis do it.
Ah yes, Europe, the sanest and most just of all ‘continents’