Comments by "Alan Pennie" (@alanpennie8013) on "Was Finland's "Continuation War" Pre-Planned? Eastern Front #WW2" video.

If The USSR had been defeated by Germany I don't think Finland would have had much difficulty annexing the Karelian SSR. It's population was small (650,000 in 1959).
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Finnish and Estonian are regarded as mutually intelligible I read.
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@seniortrostky7124 Romania was given a part of Ukraine (Transnistria) to administer.
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sami parkonnen I believe the Finnish Reds were originally even more nationalist and irredentist than The Whites. But after they were defeated their leaders were mostly in exile in The USSR so they had to change their tune.
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@ВячеславСкопюк Flattened Helsinki with their bombers. Not in 1941 of course but in 1944 they could have done it in an afternoon.
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@Seven_FM The Finns joined in Hitler's murderous war but it wasn't altogether a free choice and they did so half - heartedly. So it's not much counted against them.
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@thewoodpekker7980 Very interesting. The Finns seem to have been the victims of German disinformation.
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@taphos9469 It's an interesting question. The Soviets seemed to have wavered about the question. Sometimes they thought they should annex Finland (since it had been part of the old Russian Empire) and other times they just wanted it to be harmless. In the end the second view prevailed but it could quite possibly have gone the other way.
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@matthelme4967 Finland's membership of The Axis was signalled by Finnish adherence to The Anti - Comintern Pact (1941). The Nazis always regarded this as an association of States which accepted their leadership, replacing the old League of Nations.
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@Juspa A package deal possibly. The Finns get the Karelian SSR as long as they agree to take Leningrad (or its ruins) too.
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