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[–] SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.ml 38 points 1 year ago (16 children)

I don’t know much about what happened during the Winter War (Soviet Union v. Finland) but people seem to cite it as an example of Russia somehow failing. With Finland now in NATO they seem optimistic that this is going to be Winter War 2 Electric Boogaloo.

[–] COMHASH@lemmygrad.ml 39 points 1 year ago (14 children)

In the winter war, Russia got more than what they demanded from Finland and they were forced to sign the treaty for neutrality but I guess they joined Hitler's group soon.

[–] SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you for telling me this. The only thing I really knew about the war was this stupid meme I saw years ago:

Or at least one that was very similar. Just showing the Wikipedia information to essentially state how weak the Big Bad USSR was fighting against Little Baby Cutie Patootie Finland. I literally had to look up “Winter War meme” to find this and the amount of others with a similar sentiment is embarrassing as hell.

[–] Ancient_Might_5820@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 1 year ago

My aunt went to Finland and she says its common knowledge there that 30% of Finnish men 18-25 died in the Winter War. The USSR offered to trade land to make a buffer zone for Leningrad and Finland said no and they lost that great a percentage of their population as well as losing territory. While Soviet casualties were likely higher being on the offensive, they were proportionately nothing to the Soviets and a major generational trauma for the Finns. But flying Finnish White Death orc shooter 7 billion dead, amirite?

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