Comments by "James the Other One" (@jamestheotherone742) on "Finland's Continuation War in a Nutshell #WW2" video.

Nations don't have friends, only interests. Finland wasn't in the Axis because it was not a party to the Tripartite Pact.
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@Paciat That is not true. Germany and the USSR had a separate treaty, otherwise the Soviets would have been obliged to assist Italy, and things with Japan would have been... awkward. The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact was purely a temporary convenience for both sides. They had zero sociopolitical commonality.
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@Paciat From your link; "With the rise of the Nazis to power in January 1933, the ideological gap between fascist Germany and the communist Soviet Union became too large and the fighter school at Lipetsk was closed on 15 September 1933."
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