Why did the soviet union invade Finland during ww2?
Why did the soviet union invade Finland during ww2?
Ian Torres
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Ian Robinson
They wanted to kill 200,000 ukrainian conscripts for some reason. Too bad more than a few russians got mixed up in the order.
Jeremiah Cook
because finland is russian clay
Nathaniel Lopez
they were afraid of fingolians
Tyler Allen
Because Finland was Germany ally and close to Leningrad
David Watson
Becasue they can? Even though they couldn't invade Finland it still became their bitch
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Cameron Flores
Because Finland is an aggressive country and Russia is fighting for peace.
Nolan Ward
USSR thought that by securing the border with Finland would secure Leningrad from a possible german invasion of Russia from Finland. But by doing what they did, they made the exact thing they feared happen, tucking a cornered once attacked neutral nation safely to German arms.
Soviet foreign policy was as volatile and shortsighted as American foreign policy nowadays
Matthew Williams
I mean it was just having nothing Eastern bloc sceptical on newspapers and we got that delicious tradedeals with the east whilst also getting the delicious trade deals from west. I'd say it's just playing both sides cleverly
Juan Gutierrez
because soviet union wanted the karelian isthmus region. they thought leningrad would be easier to protect if they have the region. finland rejectet this demand and the winterwar startet.
Sebastian Scott
>Germany ally
>Part of Ryssä's sphere of influence in M-R Pact
"Logicheski", said the ryssä while carrying sacks full of sunlight into his shitty shack
Isaiah Robinson
They got rekt hard. Pretty pathetic "invasion" lmoa
Nathan Miller
>Soviet foreign policy was as volatile and shortsighted as American foreign policy nowadays
Yeah that's why we rule the world, because we're dumb. Alright.
Hudson Butler
they wanted buffer zone against Germany. And they were proven correct in their fear, as Finland allied with Germany later on
Oliver Lopez
Are you fucking retarded? Finland only started co-operating with Germany after Ryssä torpedoed our attempt at neutrality through an alliance with Sweden in 1940. Not to mention other aggression by Ryssä.
Henry Barnes
It was not "a demand" per se. An offer of land for land which Finland refused as it thought any border change and political deal would make itself "not neutral". few weeks later soviets stage a shelling of their own town and break the non-aggression pact they had with Finland
Zachary Powell
I don't know
Jaxon Jones
Well, nobody knows what would have happened if SU didn't invade Finland. It might have been that Finns would have allied with Germany either way
Wyatt Morgan
You guys even made built a museum to commemorate Lenin
Jace Anderson
Germans could just disembark and parachute next to the town and take it while the troops are 1000km away.
Nicholas Myers
It might have been your mom had fucked a Turk nine months before you were born, but what does that have to do with anything?
Dylan Flores
>The commie capital of Finland and home of the failed red revolution of 1918 builds a museum for lenin
I didn't see that coming at all.
Jayden Morgan
man, why are you so rude?
Cameron Bell
He's a fennoswede
Lucas Ortiz
Because in the molotov-ribbentrop pact they were promissed influence over the land and they wanted to enforce it.
David Miller
>Winter War topic
>An agressive Finn
Why do you pretend to be surprised? Anyway, can these two thing exist without each other at all?
Eli Lopez
You are losing every grip you have
Christian Barnes
>Russian logic
Andrew James
Because unlike the other Baltic states, they dared to say "no".
Jace Peterson
Because we revenged the Finns for this -
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