Quick reminder that at the outset of WW2 it was Germany and the Soviet Union which were allied. The Molotov-Ribbentrop pact included secret provisoes defining how Germany and the Soviet Union would split up South-Eastern and North-Eastern Europe.
Finland was designated as part of the Soviet domination area and indeed was invaded by the Soviet Union on November 30, 1939.
This is how Finland, which was resisting the Soviet invasion, suddenly found itself on the German side when Hitler reneged on the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact and launched his surprise attack on the Soviet Union in 1941.
To call Finland and Nazi Germany "allies" is a misrepresentation which was used by Stalin at the end of WW2 to exact territorial gains from Finland and force the "finlandisation" of Finland, preventing it from joining NATO and other Western organisations.
Fair enough. It was complicated and Finland found themselves in a difficult position.
Here is the letter that Finish President Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, former Finnish commander-in-chief, to Adolf Hitler, which you can argue was a letter of alliance-breaking or not:
“Our German brothers-in-arms will forever remain in our hearts. The Germans in Finland were certainly not the representatives of foreign despotism but helpers and brothers-in-arms. But even in such cases foreigners are in difficult positions requiring such tact. I can assure you that during the past years nothing whatsoever happened that could have induced us to consider the German troops intruders or oppressors. I believe that the attitude of the German Army in northern Finland towards the local population and authorities will enter our history as a unique example of a correct and cordial relationship [...] I deem it my duty to lead my people out of the war. I cannot and I will not turn the arms which you have so liberally supplied us against Germans. I harbor the hope that you, even if you disapprove of my attitude, will wish and endeavor like myself and all other Finns to terminate our former relations without increasing the gravity of the situation.“
Of COURSE it’s the ladies doing all the hard work. And leave it to the RWNJ’s to complain that this FACT is too woke. Science is hard, yo.
Yay female reindeer! No matter the species the females do all the work.
Quick reminder that at the outset of WW2 it was Germany and the Soviet Union which were allied. The Molotov-Ribbentrop pact included secret provisoes defining how Germany and the Soviet Union would split up South-Eastern and North-Eastern Europe.
Finland was designated as part of the Soviet domination area and indeed was invaded by the Soviet Union on November 30, 1939.
This is how Finland, which was resisting the Soviet invasion, suddenly found itself on the German side when Hitler reneged on the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact and launched his surprise attack on the Soviet Union in 1941.
To call Finland and Nazi Germany "allies" is a misrepresentation which was used by Stalin at the end of WW2 to exact territorial gains from Finland and force the "finlandisation" of Finland, preventing it from joining NATO and other Western organisations.
Fair enough. It was complicated and Finland found themselves in a difficult position.
Here is the letter that Finish President Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, former Finnish commander-in-chief, to Adolf Hitler, which you can argue was a letter of alliance-breaking or not:
“Our German brothers-in-arms will forever remain in our hearts. The Germans in Finland were certainly not the representatives of foreign despotism but helpers and brothers-in-arms. But even in such cases foreigners are in difficult positions requiring such tact. I can assure you that during the past years nothing whatsoever happened that could have induced us to consider the German troops intruders or oppressors. I believe that the attitude of the German Army in northern Finland towards the local population and authorities will enter our history as a unique example of a correct and cordial relationship [...] I deem it my duty to lead my people out of the war. I cannot and I will not turn the arms which you have so liberally supplied us against Germans. I harbor the hope that you, even if you disapprove of my attitude, will wish and endeavor like myself and all other Finns to terminate our former relations without increasing the gravity of the situation.“