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When you take a lil peek in the ark of the covenant and your stupid nazi face melts just a lil bit
- Unexpected Indiana Jones reference
- Simo Häyhä wasn't a Nazi but I did chuckle
  
  Who was Finland allied with? Also, why was the symbol of the finnish military a swastika until 2020?
  
  Nobody. During Winter War Finland was fighting alone against Soviet Union.
  I think that's one of the things that made the war so notable, tiny Finland fighting against huge Soviet Union, 1 v 1.
  It wasn't the symbol of Finnish military till 2002. It was in some limited use. I think it still is btw. The reason was that it's old Finnish symbol since I think iron ages or before and for example the air force logo came from a Swedish count in 1918. Pretty interesting history.
  
  Holy hell this is wrong. Finland in the winter war was a fascist state allied with Germany and it had been since the communists lost the civil war in 1918. Communists had been rounded up and put in camps by the tens of thousands. Finland was effectively a German puppet state by the time the Soviets invaded in 1939.
  
  Finland in the winter war was a fascist state allied with Germany
  No, you are thinking of Continuation War. During Winter War Finland wasn't allied with Germany, rather contrary to that Germany was hampering some efforts to ship armaments to Finland because of Molotov-Ribbentrop. Not only that, Finland wasn't at all fascist. It was a functioning multi-party democracy.
  Finland was effectively a German puppet state by the time the Soviets invaded in 1939.
  That has no basis in reality. I suggest you read this article that gives some basics about the background for Winter War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Background_of_the_Winter_War
  See for example: "Finnish–German relations cooled after the National Socialist Party rose to power in Germany in 1933. Finns admired Imperial Germany, but not the radical and antidemocratic Nazi regime. Finnish conservatives did not accept the Nazis' state violence and antireligious policies. Still, there was sympathy for German aims to revise the Treaty of Versailles, but the official Finnish policy was reserved, especially after the German invasion of Czechoslovakia. Finland even recalled its ambassador for a short period.
  Finnish Nazis and ultranationalist parties such as the Patriotic People's Movement achieved only minor support in several elections, especially in the aftermath of the failed Mäntsälä rebellion in 1932."
  
  Why did Finland Siege Leningrad from the north and seize the northern isthmus?
  Why did Finland attempt to cut off Murmansk on the German’s orders?
  
  That's not Winter War, that's Continuation War. Simo Häyhä didn't fight in Continuation War. As for war aims during Continuation War, the answer is obvious, to defeat USSR. It's like asking why Germany bombed the UK.
  
  He wanted to fight in the Continuation War, he was barred entry to the army.
  Also the Continuation War began in 1944. Those things I mentioned happened in 1941, during Operation Barbarossa. Finland was an ally of Nazi Germany.
  
  He wanted to fight in the Continuation War, he was barred entry to the army.
  Yes
  Also the Continuation War began in 1944.
  No, Continuation War happened 1941-44. You're thinking of Lapland War now. That's 1944-45.
  
  🤓
  
  puts on spectacles*
  Uhm, achkshually, that would be a lot funnier if people weren't arguing with me about the dates and getting them wrong.
  pushes them further up the nose*
  So there!
  
  Caught your ass. I was trying to get you to say that.
  And why did Finland begin fighting the continuation war at that time?
  
  Jerking off about the Winter War is stereotypical Finnish online mega cringe.
  
  I honestly see it a lot more from people outside of Finland. And we often cringe at that too.
  "Oh you're from Finland? Kimi Räikkönen Simo Häyhä Winter War you win against USSR right??"
  "..."
  
  The solution is to avoid mentioning you're Finnish
  
  "So, where are you from?"
  "Uhhhh, gotta go"
  
  idk. if you're shooting communists, you're probably a nazi.
  
  In this case the communist attacked you and started shooting you first. I'd imagine most would defend themselves when attacked
  It's an interesting idea though that anyone who communists attack are Nazis. Maybe the funniest conclusion from that is that Vietnamese were Nazis since China attacked Vietnam in 1979.
  
  The Finnish state that fought the Soviet Union, the one which was allied with Nazi Germany, was only established after the wholesale massacre of communists and workers. Anticommunism is the modus operandi of fascism in all its forms. The axis powers in WWII were formalized in the "Anti-Comintern Pact" to which Finland was a signatory.
  
  Using something happened in 1918 and especially 1941 to justify calling Finland Nazi during Winter War that happened in 1939-40 seems fairly creative.
  Interesting thing about the Civil War and Winter War though. After the Civil War Finland was heavily divided nation for a long time. And while the wounds had started to heal some, it was the opposition to the Soviet attack that actually brought the left and right together. I'm not sure how true it is, but I've heard Stalin expected the Finnish workers to celebrate him coming over and "freeing them" and was quite surprised that they were having none of that.
  
  https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/10/world/europe/finnish-volunteers-very-likely-participated-in-killing-of-jews-in-wwii.html
  
  That's again something that happened after Winter War. Official Finnish policy towards Jews was luckily much better during the war. Even resulted in funny things such as Nazis awarding a Finnish Jewish soldier the Iron Cross, which is just bizarre to think about.

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