Post by Odin of Ossetia on Jan 19, 2018 19:41:03 GMT -5
The reason for this post is essentially a reply to some recent posts made by some Finns on the Forum Biodiversity. Cannot reply on that forum due to me being permanently banned from there (even had difficult time being accepted there since I applied to join it back in late 2012 but could not post on that forum until early 2014, but that is another story).
"Peaceful" Finland has some real explaining to do.
Massacres of the Finnish "Reds" and ethnic Russians during the Finnish Civil War of 1918, conducted by German-and-Swedish-controlled puppets and German troops supporting them. Mostly by shooting but also some by much more gruesome means.
During the Winter War of 1939-1940:
Refusal by the Finnish regime to accept a very generous offer made by the Soviet government to exchange territory (Finland would have gotten significantly larger if it had accepted it).
Torturing to death of Soviet prisoners-of-war or POWs (by pouring cold water on them during very cold weather so that they will freeze alive, skinning them alive, scalping them, and by other means).
During the Continuation War of 1941-1944:
Torturing to death of the Soviet POWs continues.
Massacres of ethnic Russian civilians.
Confining of the civilian population of an occupied territory to concentration camps simply for being ethnic Russians, where at least over 14 000 of them perished (predominantly women and children).
Direct participation in the genocidal blockade and shelling of the city of Leningrad, contributing to the huge death toll there.
Nazi-like racist and expansionist ideology.
A Finnish contingent fighting as part of the Waffen-SS on territory nowhere near to Finland; what were these "peace-lovers" doing there?
More details you can read (in Russian) here (informative photographs are also shown):
Mannerheim was a Butcher, and Wanted to be even Bloodier but Could not.
zavtra.ru/blogs/marshal_myasnik_ili_salyami_po-mannergejmski
Myth About "Peaceful" Finland
nnm2.com/blogs/dmitry68/mif-o-mirnoy-finlyandii-chto-pobudilo-sssr-nachat-voynu-s-finlyandiey/
And the later post-war lies about "not wanting to take Leningrad" were invented to make Finns look good; they could not take Leningrad due to the heavy Soviet resistance. Somehow they occupied the city of Petrozavodsk together with a significant area around it despite that it was never even part of Finland. Contemporary Finnish newspapers even bragged about that the Finnish artillery was shelling Leningrad. So much so about "not trying to take it."
These crimes have rather consistently been covered up in the Western sources, while by comparison the killing of a very small number of Finnish civilians by Soviet aerial bombardments and by some recon troops on the ground (the latter only during the Continuation War and were likely reprisals for previous Finnish war crimes) have received considerable attention.
Also, the excessive "lionization" of the Finnish troops by wildly exaggerated claims that during the Winter War they were outnumbered by a ratio of "10:1" or even "13:1". While the U.S.S.R. had indeed much larger population than Finland the Finnish troops were only outnumbered by their Soviet counterparts by a ratio of roughly 2:1. A major reason for this much smaller real ratio is that Finland was only invaded with the forces of the Leningrad Military District, not the entire Soviet Union.
So "Finnish national hero" was an ethnic Swede? That is more a reason for embarrassment for Finland.