• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
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    2 days ago

    I 100% percent support making fun of the US and how incompetent and fascist we are but for the record I sure as HELL would never want to fight Finnish troops in Arctic conditions. The way people used to wax poetic about how russia’s most powerful general is winter blah blah blah is far more fitting for the Finnish military.

    Nah, considering the past conflicts Finland has been in and had to face down, I would not want to fuck with the Finnish in an arctic war, especially a messy prolonged one with infantry combat.

    The Soviet Union invaded Finland on 30 November 1939, starting the Winter War, with the goal of annexing Finland.[1] An expected easy Soviet victory instead saw the Red Army suffer severe losses in men and materiel, and the attempt to conquer Finland failed. The war ended on 13 March 1940 with the signing of the Moscow Peace Treaty in which Finland ceded 9% of its territory to the Soviet Union.

    Finland invaded the Soviet Union in June of 1941, initiating the Continuation War. Finland retook territory lost in the Winter War and proceeded to occupy East Karelia. The Soviets launched the Vyborg–Petrozavodsk offensive in June 1944 and drove Finland out of the territory it had taken, but the Finns halted the offensive with a string of victories, beginning with the Battle of Tali-Ihantala and ending with the Battle of Ilomantsi in August 1944. The Continuation War ended with the Moscow Armistice.

    As part of the Moscow Armistice, Finland was obliged to drive out the Germans from Finnish territory, in what became the Lapland War. The war ended in April of 1945.

    The Finns successfully resisted Soviet attempts to conquer Finland, making Finland one of two combatant continental European countries in World War II not to have its capital occupied (the other being the Soviet Union).[2]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_Finland