Comments by "Jussi M. Konttinen" (@jussim.konttinen4981) on "TIKhistory" channel.

  1.  @Paciat  Or 1. British warmongering 2. Soviet agression 3. American cooperation To my understanding, English is not a native language in any continental European country. The British Empire was not a democracy, which explains their strange territorial claims. Nor was their aim to spread democracy.
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  2. Religiosity varied by country and person. They made lists where sometimes the majority declared themselves to be Christians, instead of the state religion. SS colonel Franz Schreiber hid a medieval church bell and dug it up after the war. They often left the churches unburnt, even when other buildings were destroyed. In addition, East Germany made statistics from which you can see that Christianity did collapse after WW2, not during.
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  3. Several gold medals at the Winter Olympics
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  4.  @nottoday3817  Pyrrhic victory
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  5.  @pizzapatriot1769  In addition, each company kept a journal. The Continuation War is pretty well documented in Finnish. Easier if you tell us the specific thing you're looking for.
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  6.  @pizzapatriot1769  There is not much literature on this subject in English. One book that has been discussed in Finland is "Der finnische Krieg" by Waldemar Erfurth. The entire 1070-page diary is kept in the National Archives of Finland.
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  7.  Lovecraft  Or even when they're Germans they are still British, in the style of Schindler's List
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  8. Giovanni Messe formally surrendered to British and New Zealand forces. After the Italian armistice in September 1943, he was made chief of staff of the Italian Co-Belligerent Army.
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  9. Why? Isn't the best killer the one who kills the most? This is not a beauty contest.
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  10.  @Paciat  There have never been German troops in Britain. Poland didn't want to join the anti-Comintern pact. Do you really believe that South Africa would declare war on Finland without Churchill's warmongering? Yeah, right. Of course, Germany had an obligation to stop the invasion. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Russia#Soviet_Union_(1922–1991)
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  11. I don't think Mannerheim was surprised that his wife was Russian.
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  12.  @zheka1780  "We could also see signs of significant events in recent Finnish history in the genes, such as the migration from the areas of Karelia that Finland ceded to Russia, which may be linked to the paths taken by Karelian refugees during World War II...In some respects, we can even expect our genes to depict our history more accurately than the history books. " https://www.helsinki.fi/en/news/life-science/finlands-recent-history-is-inscribed-in-the-genes
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  13. In Finland, soldiers had a black V on their sleeve, which meant prisoner (vanki). Officers acted mosly like cops. In the beginning a lot of problems like hunger strike, refusals, panic, murder. About 80 people escaped, including the very dangerous Yrjö Leino (minister of the interior).He should have been removed. Although performance improved, losses (diary doesn't specify) occurred after they took over a Russian vodka stock. However, Mannerheim pardoned them. V looks a bit like an arrow, thus the battalion (Er.P 21) was called "black arrow". They were subjugated to the "Ace" regiment (JR 26) led by colonel Eero Laaksonen, therefore a white ribbon was also used on the left sleeve. Reka Kumsa was conquered in an astonishing 40 minutes. Laaksonen was knighted in November 1942. Medvezhyegorsk was occupied by the Finnish Army from 6 December 1941 to 23 June 1944.
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  14. So let me get this straight. Millions of Soviets starved to death before, during and after WW2 was due to brilliant libertarian logistics?
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  15.  @manichaean1888  Some Finns also did well in the Red Army. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akseli_Anttila
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  16. As he said, the market was shrinking, which was partly caused by the allies. That is why, after WW2, reconstruction was done more effectively. In my opinion, the real reason was industrialization, as some historians have said. Human nature is always the same if we believe in multiculturalism. British and Germans are like Nigerians, that is, violent.
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  17.  @adaw2d3222  I'm sure hundreds of them died. They chose the wrong country to attack. Only one was born in Finland. 6 were unlucky immigrants. At that time there was a strict immigration policy. And Vyborg Synagogue was completely destroyed by Soviet air bombings on the first day of Winter War.
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  18. Lapland is no joke. You can lose your life even without the Red Army if you don’t know what you’re doing.
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  19. @Coach Black Pill lol a chairwoman of the antifascist union of Treptow district said that, "We will never forget the feat of Soviet warriors who liberated not only their Motherland but the German nation too, as well as many European countries from the 'brown plague'."
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  20. Well said. Tripartism indeed contributes to a high standard of living. Sometimes so-called fascists (shogunate) or monarchists don't pay attention to the living standards of workers. On the other hand, communists eliminate innovations. That is why it is called the third way. Iceland is a republican version of that, i.e. social corporatism.
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  21.  @russelledwards001  I'd say Churchill was similar ruler as Alexander the Liberator of Russia, although not an absolute dictator. I think it's called a hybrid regime.
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  22.  @SniperDiplomat  They had quite similar ideologies. Italians just see the rules as proposals. And East Germany was not very international, but is was Marxist.
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  23. I noticed that during the Continuation War soldiers drank tea, which is unusual in Finland. Where did they get the tea?
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  24. Well, where are they? My father had a horse and Mosin-Nagant in 1968. A couple of years later: "You're free now! Go, otherwise you end up in a sausage factory. Run free!"
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  25. I think you're wrong about Ryti. He was more like Neville Chamberlain (under attack). The Greater Finland ideology was supported by Paavo Talvela and the fascists (Patriotic People's Movement), who received only about 6% of the vote. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paavo_Talvela
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  26. The schism between the Western and Eastern Christians resulted from a variety of political, cultural and theological factors which transpired over centuries.
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  27.  @Matt_History  You claim the Nazi election were honest. Don't make me laugh.
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  28. Many Germans in Russia largely assimilated and integrated into Russian society. There were some 2 million ethnic Germans in the Soviet Union in 1989. https://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/11/world/bonn-urges-russia-to-restore-land-for-its-ethnic-germans.html
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  29. You are authentic nazi, if you are a party member, otherwise just a history buff.
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  30. @slovene ball Very similar to what the special forces are doing nowadays in Iraq. But most of the Muslims in Europe were born in Europe, not Arabs. In democracies like Finland the Tatars and the Jews had already been enlisted in 1939.
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  31. No offense, but that picture seems to be a movie scene from the 1950s.
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  32.  @melrakan  Apparently the judge was a holocaust denier, since Felix Steiner faced charges at the Nuremberg Trials, but they were dropped for lack of solid evidence and he was released. Such allegations have also been investigated by Finnish State Police in the past, with no evidence of crimes being found. According to "Ne bis in idem" principle, a person can not be prosecuted more than once for the same (criminal) behaviour.
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  33. This is a familiar topic to me because I lived next to a mental hospital built in 1926. I always wondered why they needed a big chimney.
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  34.  @Chasstful  So...why wait a couple of years? I have heard that the Battle of Hürtgen Forest was quite intense. I would have built an Autobahn from Normandy to Berlin, and sang love songs. I bet you did Nazi that coming. https://youtu.be/Zzg_FjEhHUc
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  35. Poland declare war on Japan. Japanese PM Tojo: I'm gonna pretend I didn't see that.
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  36.  @acenosce3334  Part 2: The REAL reason why Stalin HAD to start WW2
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  37.  @ArcticTemper  Swedes are pretty awesome overlords of Finland. However, it is easy to raise your hands in front of the Russians, leaving the Swedes played out of power. I mean no one wants some colonial Lord in their home. Tourism is a different matter.
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  38.  @Paciat  Yeah, right. I went to NCO school. You sound like a wannabe slumdog millionaire. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.irishexaminer.com/analysis/when-eamon-de-valera-emerged-the-winner-in-the-battle-of-the-airwaves-330428.html "John Maffey, the British representative, was particularly critical of Churchill’s suggestion that it would have been natural for Britain to seize Irish bases."
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  39. Default Aggressive is perhaps a better definition. No matter how you manipulate the numbers, they still lost 50% less than the Red Army. A Normandy landing would be too fanatical for me.
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  40. Although I have nothing against Mennonites, that’s probably the ideology you’re looking for. https://youtu.be/Pt_XU4W4DBA
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  41.  @johns3544  In a multi-party system, it's almost impossible to get a majority even once, not to mention in a row.
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  42.  @metaphorpritam  There are many Tsarist era buildings in Finland, even here in the lake region. Also, look at the buildings in St Petersburg. They had a nice time before WW1. Russia has not recovered from the persecution of Christians, but certainly things are better today than before. Our town hall, completed in the 1880s https://tinyurl.com/r6z4y5y Mannerheim's apartment built in 1912, current price 1.7 million euros (sold). https://tinyurl.com/vr85y8e
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  43. Cheri, cheri lady Goin' through a motion Love is where you find it Listen to your heart
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  44. ​ @bananabourbonaenima  No need to keep talking about the past. North Korea is clearly ultra-nationalist and socialist, thus national socialist. Iceland is a liberal democracy. Your apartment is not taxed at all if you have lived there for two years. In the Philippines, adultery and concubinage are criminal cases that are generally considered committed against the State. Both Iceland and the Philippines are culturally Western and moderate countries. Fine by me, if you want to call North Korea far right.
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  45.  @dragosstanciu9866  Reasons vary by country. A bit like asking why Britain invaded the world. Yugoslavia was pro-Axis though.
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  46. Hitler was in Finland due to Mannheim's birthday party. He returned the visit, traveling to Hitler's headquarters. A.F Airo was in charge of the day-to-day management of the war. Obviously, a lot depends on what he sees on German maps
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  47. Finnish version of a penal battalion was 21st Independent Battalion also known as the "Black Arrow". Unit had considerable trouble in its first week. After which the Communists were taken back to the camp. Ordinary criminals turned out to be reliable soldiers. It was led by Major Nikke Pärmi who belonged to the veterans of the Köninglich Preussisches Jägerbataillon Nr. 27 - but who also was convicted of manslaughter. Other officers in the unit had military police training or background.
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  48.  @thoughtfulinsanity3050  Finland supported both Pol Pot and Stalin at the UN.
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  49.  @Mocsk  Churchill declared war because the Finnish army was going too far. Or do you claim he made a mistake? http://heninen.net/sopimus/kirjecm_e.htm
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  50.  @johnburns4017  Upon closer examination, the amount of tea was only 1-2 cups a week, and they got 3 light cigarettes every day. However, the total calorie intake was very close to the present, except when stationary they were not allowed to gain weight, as in modern times.
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  51. Not to mention Dwight D. Eisenhower was a Republican and more German than SS commandant Karl Chmielewski.
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  52.  @aleksazunjic9672  Technically, Russia was one of their enemies. Stepan Petrichenko was arrested by the Finnish authorities in 1941. On the basis of an armistice agreement between the USSR, Great Britain and Finland, Petrichenko was sent to the USSR. He died on June 2, 1947, while being transported.
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  53.  @aleksazunjic9672  Although Aleksei Brusilov was given an honourable state funeral in 1926, Russian officers were definitely persecuted in the 1930s and 1940s.
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  54.  @fiddlersgreen2433  Mannerheim was in Russia for 30 years, but says in the preface to his memoirs that he had no notes of that time. On the other hand, I'm sure that someone has already written the history of Russia 1887-1917. I don't think it is a problem as long as the bias is known. I'd rather listen to that person (ghost writer Aladár Paasonen) than someone who was raised by a Communist university.
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  55.  @AgendaFiles  Elections to the Reichstag during Nazi rule took the form of a single-question referendum asking whether voters approved of a single list of Nazis. In that situation, voting is like going to church. Y'all should take a look at this list of freedom indices: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_freedom_indices
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  56.  @Justin_Kipper  They still have famine and slave labor in North Korea. It never ends. "Failing to show up for work without permission is a crime punishable by three to six months in forced labor training camps (rodong dallyeondae)." https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2019/country-chapters/north-korea
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  57. Because they were criminals. He put some socialists in prison, executed some Nazis, and killed Rommel. I guess members were all kinds of people from nazbols to monarchists, since it became a catch-all party. I'd say he was a left leaning third positionist.
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  58. Moreover, North Korea is an interesting combination of monarchy, socialism and nationalism.
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  59. I think Heinrich Himmler was as smart as Bernard Montgomery. On the other hand, Freddie de Guingand was smarter than Himmler. Authoritarian leaders fear talented individuals, which often leads to micromanaging and mistakes.
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  60. There are not so many jews in Austria. When less than 1% of the population disappears while 5% of Catholics die, you would necessarily pay attention.
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  61.  @nantenknight83  This only proves the racial theories to be correct. Semi-German children were rejected because they weren't genetically similar. As a result, the whole of Eastern Europe disintegrated into ethnic states, causing problems that can still be seen in Ukraine.
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  62.  @gking407  They are mostly fascists whose favorite color is red. Not that I miss the Communists
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  63. Well done. I like the Italian/yugo uniforms of Ljotic's troops. Also, I noticed that they drink raki, which can be a problem.
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  64.  @Mocsk  As you said, they went way beyond the 1920-1939 border. Ryti and Mannerheim decided to stop the attack for political reasons. In an interview in 1978, General A.F Airo stated that the attack should have been continued. Karelian is the closest relative of the Finnish language and should not be confused with the so-called Karelian dialects of Finnish. For example, Dutch is the closest language to English. This does not mean that these nations are automatically allies. And like America's indigenous languages, smaller languages ​​have blended into the mainstream. http://www.elupuu.org/index.php?id=52
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  65.  @artiombeknazaryan7542  Interestingly, Stalin was by chance the best nation-builder when compared to, say, Iraq. Indeed, Stalin removed Mannerheim from the list of war culprits because he considered him a guarantor of peace.
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  66.  @SniperDiplomat  That's what I said. Most enterprises in East Germany were nationalised following World War II. However, slave labor is unpaid community work. Moreover, Social Corporatism is only a democratic version of the same basic principle (National income policy agreement ). So I think there is a connection to the welfare state, which is inspired by Marxism and Menshevism.
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  67.  @ImperativeGames  Being able to travel in Finland also made it easier for them. American colonel George E. Huthsteiner was military Attaché to the three Baltic states and Finland. He inspected Finnish troops in Karhumäki (Medvezhyegorsk) 17.09.1942. Crazy to see an American officer on the eastern front.
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  68.  @fabiofaria4243  Sweden is now suffering from gullibility and is turning into Michigan.
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  69.  @seanmac1793  Finland also raised overall taxes to 28% and made cash useless by literally cutting the banknotes in half (1945-46), during the Mannerheim administration. People were able to own land and real estate, but they had to do a lot of communal work.
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  70. If you change the date the attacker will change. France and Belgium occupied the Ruhr Valley in 1923.
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  71. I wish the US would have dissolved into two countries without a fight, in the 1860s. But I don't worry about it.
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  72. I'm pretty sure it's about Greece-Turkey dispute. Not much to do with the Nazis.
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  73.  @360Nomad  Hitler rightly suspected the officers of the General Staff, which was indeed the source of many conspiracies against Hitler. He would have been killed if he had finally gone mental.
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  74.  @KnightofAges  Our beloved father of nations is resting his eyelids.
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  75. At the end of WW1, Finnish white government offered to cover all the expenses for the Germans to occupy Helsinki. The city had been under anarcho-communist control for 11 weeks. It took them a couple of days to liberate Helsinki.
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  76.  Pedro Kantor  AH actually used that last term, but I would call it Bushmen’s socialism (social bushmen?). As has been studied, there is near perfect gender equality in the society of hunter-gatherers. However, a lot of Social Justice is based on Stalin’s thoughts, on population transfers, etc.
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  77. In my opinion, it was mostly due to cultural and geographical proximity. In addition, Icelanders and Finns favor republics over monarchy. Several countries switched sides to avoid a civil war. In other words, the Allies occupy Iceland. Germany occupies Denmark and Norway. Sweden cooperates and Finland begs for help.
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  78.  @hermitoldguy6312  You can always go further into socialism. Unlike Hitler, Urho Kekkonen was an isolationist nazbol. A spearhead unit in Southern Finland was the first to receive automatic weapons, in the summer of 1968. https://images.cdn.yle.fi/image/upload//w_1200,h_800,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto:eco/13-3-10248062.jpg
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  79. Mannerheim gave a written notice to Germany that Finns do not participate in the siege. They never even made a plan to conquer Leningrad. Take a look at A.F Airo's interview (1978) on youtube if you understand Finnish. Airo was the virtual second-in-command and main strategic planner during the Continuation War.
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  80. I just watched The Last Vermeer (2019). Quite a well-balanced account of the Allied occupation outside Germany, which eventually turned into an alliance. James H. Magill traveled to Helsinki in October 1944. Since only a few prison sentences were given in Finland, their task was to inspect warehouses and dump illegal weapons in lakes.
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  81. Money printer go brrr..brrr
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  82.  @mibamoeba  He was wrong. The Afghans showed how to defeat the Red Army without material superiority. It's a matter of willpower.Result: Mujahideen victory https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet–Afghan_War
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  83.  @aararqaae6451  I love freedom-loving Americans who were not racists, especially in the 1950s. https://youtu.be/iGnUiF-JAlc
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  84. They are socialists. That's why it was a mainstream ideology in the 20th century. People like Helmut Schmidt and François Mitterrand found themselves in "complete agreement" on foreign policy matters. Newly accessible documents from 1942 praise his "Impeccable national-socialist [Nazi] behaviour", and in 1944 his superiors mentioned that Schmidt "stands the ground of national-socialist ideology.
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  85.  @Gew219  Describing Poles as collaborators
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  86.  @TheImperatorKnight  However, Nazism was a religious (to varying degrees) and totalitarian center-left ideology, not communism. It was perfectly logical to go on a crusade against non-religious Bolsheviks. In economic terms the Wehrmacht was no different from the US Army, which also made use of conscription. https://youtu.be/tFwhFqaymdI
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  87.  @elliotsmith1622  Exactly. In Tali-Ihantala, one group of five soldiers (armed with bolt-action rifles) was left behind by a retreating main force as hundreds of Soviet soldiers rushed past them. In that situation, this joke about an "Asiatic Horde" wouldn't be funny.
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  88.  @fritz1816  Finland also declared war on Germany. My grandpa was demobilized, and he lived south of the demarcation line, so he didn't even lose property. Granted, Germany was losing ground at the time.
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  89. Due to geography, explained in the previous video. They had a tight schedule. Btw Napoleon and Alexander did it. That is why Sweden has The House of Bernadotte. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaties_of_Tilsit
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  90.  @BrotherAlpha  No dictatorship is on a sustainable footing, regardless of the governance model. Which is why we rarely hear about the good deeds of National Socialism. Toward the end of the war, from December 1944 onwards, Helmut Schmidt served as an Oberleutnant in the Flakartillery on the Western Front during the Battle of the Bulge. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization_for_Security_and_Co-operation_in_Europe#History
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  91. If you leave your front door wide open, you invite intruders. There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
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  92.  @melrakan  The Soviet Union also participated in the Holocaust by killing 22 Jews who served in the Finnish army. https://tinyurl.com/y2j3yzca
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  93.  @halflifeapc8777  Finland exists. RIP USSR. Case closed 😜
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  94. I am not so sure. It would have ended in a stalemate somewhere further east. I would argue that willpower turns water into oil. A Finnish man just pedaled from Hanko to Nuorgam, 1445 kilometers in less than 61 hours. In 1969, the Finnish army had almost the same equipment as in the 1940s. Excluding the so-called cucumber salad uniforms. https://www.reservilainen.fi/files/440/800/2632-69.jpg
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  95.  @dragosstanciu9866  Basically, the format of this channel is: My dad is better than your dad, and you are a wehraboo socialist Nazi..lol. Very civilized.
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  96. I love how they executed junior nazies, but released the generals from prison.Btw Steiner starred in "Aseveljeyden sankarit" (1943). Unfortunately, it's available just for us Finnish-speaking adults lol Finnish wiki: Steiner is considered one of the most skilled SS generals. As a person, he was easy-going and liked among his subordinates. There was a strong mutual respect between Steiner and his men. They should add, good husband material.
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  97. Paris and Brussels were declared open cities.
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  98. Fortunately, in real life Stalin was suffocated with a pillow. Both Nazi Karl-Erik Ladau and Communist Hertta Kuusinen supported Urho Kekkonen in 1968. The horseshoe theory? Churchill spoke out against prosecuting any further German generals, as he felt it would interfere with the process of reconciliation with Germany.
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  99. But in the end, they made peace. So a peace treaty would make sense in 1943. https://youtu.be/sIk8dS70uUQ
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  100. Finnish battalion (5th SS Panzer Division Wiking) was situated south of Stalingrad. Although in Finland they were scattered, most ended up in Tornio. Detachment Törni was  probably in Medvezhyegorsk, 2000 km northwest.
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  101. Germany is located in Western Europe, so culturally close to Italy. The First Reich was The Holy Roman Empire. They borrowed heavily from Latin. Latin was the language of the universities in Germany and the rest of Europe.
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  102. In addition, only after the ascent of Mikhail Gorbachev to Soviet leadership in 1985 did mass media in Finland gradually begin to criticise the Soviet Union. Not to mention full communism in East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia,  Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Albania. Communists are hated for their actions, it's not Nazi propaganda. Joseph Goebbels did not survive the war.
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  103. Read about Naturalization in Vietnam or any Asian country. They take these things seriously. "Persons applying for naturalization must have Vietnamese names." "Obeying the Constitution and laws of Vietnam; respecting the traditions, customs and practices of the Vietnamese nation." "Applicants for naturalization must be able to listen, speak, read and write in Vietnamese in accordance with the living and working environment."
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  104. I agree with libertarian economic effects, but I see it as a political utopia in Europe. I have no problem with any political ideology between the original Mensheviks and the so-called National Progressives. In the area of ​​history, I endorse Pat Buchanan's works.
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  105.  Kiwi Kopf  *have brothels..Like riding a rented bike without a helmet. Slightly Dangerous.
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  106. Nowadays everyone seems to have the same helmets. The Finnish army used a traditional uniform until the late 1960s, except for more submachine (Suomi KP/-31) guns. https://youtu.be/-fZ-u6F6nAc
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  107. She overthrew the fascist regime in Argentina without NATO. That's impressive.
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  108. This is a libertarian channel. You don't have to take things personally.
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  109.  @anatolyscheglov4969  Thank you for your help. Look The Soviet Union was airlifting food to starving Finns.  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov_bread_basket
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  110. I think Hitler was quite brutal, almost like a Civil War leader. But I am confused by the use of word "president" in Hitler's will. He was generally known as just "der Führer". Did Dönitz forge it or why such a democratic term?
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  111. Crazy that July is named in honor of Gaius Julius Caesar. In Finnish, it is literally hay-moon, because it is not an Indo-European language.
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  112.  @georgepress1261  Revised version of the Erfurt Program, adopted by the Social Democratic Party of Germany during the SPD Congress at Erfurt in 1891. The Forssa Program is a political declaration issued by the Labour Party of Finland at its party convention in Forssa, Finland (Russia) in August 1903.
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  113.  @slavk5490  In defense of Russia, they were 30 years ahead of the Chinese.
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  114. Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim was twice over Lord Protector of Finland / President, but each time relinquished his power prematurely.
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  115.  @christopherconard2831  Half drunk Yeltsin climbed up onto a tank.
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  116.  @sergeontheloose  Russian cars are very expensive for their owners, therefore they are also the best engineers 😉
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  117.  Blesava Konjina  "They have utterly lost the Anglo-Saxon conception of justice and feel that a man can be kicked out because somebody else says he is a Nazi. They were evidently quite shocked when I told them I would kick nobody out without the successful proof of guilt before a court of law"
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  118. I'm not a big fan. I'm on the center right. France basically has a Nordic model, which is unnecessarily bloated and bureaucratic.
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  119. Dutch enthusiasm for NATO is lower than that of Germany. Makes me wonder. Maybe there was something fishy about that hunger story.
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  120. @Matricx700 "...conservative bourgeois elements chose Hitler. So did I, and I would do it again if a choice between Communism and Nazism arose." Karl Dönitz, May 2, 1946 Neo-Nazism opposes foreign lower class, refugees, etc.
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  121. Liberalism = conservatism
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  122. To sum up, Tik: every murder is socialist My counter argument: every murder is capitalist
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  123.  @harshbansal7982  In the case of Finland, political situation after the war of 1940 was similar to that of Austria in 1945. You could vote for Jesus, but it won't bring you more butter on rye bread.
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  124. I don't think so. Largest in Finland.
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  125. I'm not a conservative 😉, but I vote Christian II of Denmark. He was the last Catholic king of Finland. I wuz Russian, though
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  126. Like a boarding school
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  127.  @PMaximov  Finland was not yet fully industrialized, meaning that the Soviet Union won mostly collective farms and cow manure. Someone could claim that Finland won the "Great Patriotic War". Most of the army came home to rest and received a dose of state cognac in the fall of 1944, and celebrated Christmas at home. Meanwhile, the Soviets were fighting their way to Berlin. https://images.app.goo.gl/GotSsbPaFZ6zbTja6
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  128.  @pehmomarsu  Keep in mind that Sixty-two percent of the Japanese Americans were United States citizens. Unlike in the Japanese Americans, Russians and Jews in Finland were not incarcerated during WW2. Jewish mortality rate was actually lower than the rest of the population. During the Russian Revolution many aristocrats and officers fled to Finland as refugees. The biggest refugee wave was in 1922 when about 33,500 people came to Finland. It's true that the treatment of Soviet citizens was not appropriate, but some lucky Soviet Russian POWs were treated as family members since 1942. Eventually, because of the War in Lapland, Finnish Christians were the largest group of Finns in the nazi concentration camps.
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  129.  @adaw2d3222  If it walks like NATO, etc? Well, legal status is a bit more complicated, but I understand what you mean.
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  130.  @lteagle101  Key differences between Finland and Germany: 1. The United States only severed diplomatic relations with Finland in 1944. They can never be counted as Allies. 2. Finland didn't ratify the Geneva Convention relative to the treatment of POWs. 3. Although decentralized organizational structure had a great deal of flexibility, only Mannerheim would possess the authority to lead the country from war to peace.
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  131.  @ПалПалыч-щ1о "omg what does the 'Continuation war' means?" Such a definition means that South Karelia was important to the 410,000 people who were evicted from their homes by the Soviets. Today Vyborg District is no longer a prosperous region.
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  132.  @AgendaFiles  brrrrrr https://youtu.be/RjqWSUPxBZs
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  133.  @lotus95t  To my understanding, the Germans destroyed more than they initially calculated (248/240). According to the Germans, 60 divisions would remain, but the Soviet Union had 100 extra divisions of its own, and another 60 divisions thanks to lend-lease. It's not possible to destroy 220 Soviet divisions without unconventional warfare.
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  134. That's what I thought. In Finland we still say, Four Second (teen) = neljätoista = 14
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  135.  @Seven_FM  Well that escalated quickly. LOL Hubert "The Black Eagle" Julian was also there. He was a Trinidad-born aviation pioneer. Germany did not take part in the war, but on the contrary it prevented the transportation of arms and volunteers. In a way, you were right that the 44th Kievan Rifle Division went to heaven. According to the Protestant belief, there is no hell.
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  136. 10:25 Hitler didn't shoot him. Wilhelm II died of a blood clot caused by smoking at the age of 82. Just like saying that Churchill was 100% anti-Stalinist in 1942. Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia survived detention, in Germany. Vladimir was more afraid of hanging by the Allies, so he didn't support Germany.
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  137. Yeah, right. I don't understand much of what even Estonians are talking about. There are also Finno-Ugric people in Saransk, 650km southeast of Moscow. "The fighting continues, and if we believe in the Enlightenment officers, we will not stop until Moscow belongs to Western Finland. But first, we take control of an important crossroads of Tsopina." -Nikke Pärmi Tšobino is a tiny village located on the Northern shore of Ääninen
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  138. @Assismus Just like Germany occupied Austria 1938-45. Tiilikkajärvi was part of Russia over 400 years. So what. I see Russian speakers every day and I don't care if they are Ukrainian. If they are Russian, people's will is decisive, as in 1776.
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  139. The female historian defines prostitution as rape. In other words, millions of rapes happen every day, making the Wehrmacht look like doves.
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  140. I would have phrased that differently because we are talking about 1946. Certainly better to be in Hesse than in Moldova
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  141. Churchill: I hate communism Also Churchill: here are your weapons, so you can spread communism
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  142.  @olliephelan  Trump was right to ask who were the good guys. British failed to secure the control of Petrograd by White Russian forces, which was one of the main goals of the Baltic campaign in 1918.
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  143. Sweden was quite clearly neutral. General A.F Airo knew this and asked the Soviet Union to put pressure on Sweden, but they did not take it seriously.
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  144. Winston Churchill, "von Manstein is clean" Me: No problem. Cheers!
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  145.  @TheImperatorKnight  Eisenhower also acknowledged this fact. Currently, 2.8 million refugees from Ukraine to the EU. Some conspiracy theorist might think Putin is trying to make Europe white again.
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  146.  @Paciat  "Did even one South African..." Indeed, there was a significant minority actively opposed to the war and under these conditions conscription was never an option, but one should research the family background of a pilot to know for sure. For example, Lauri Pekuri managed to down two Soviet Hawker Hurricanes, but his Brewster Buffalo (BW-372) was also hit and he was forced to make an emergency landing on a lake. In addition, airplanes cannot operate without a significant number of airport personnel. In all, around 550 RAF air and ground crew made the airfield at Vaenga their home. Wing Commander was a New Zealand born RAF test pilot: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._151_Wing_RAF "Czechoslovakia" The result was 41 years of one-party rule in Czechoslovakia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovak_invasion_of_Poland As for the case of Sweden, it was Napoleon who split the kingdom into two parts. Rüdiger von der Goltz reunited Finland to the west in 1918, though no longer to Sweden.
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  147.  @Paciat  By this criteria, Nelson Mandela was a Nazi fanboy who stayed home to knit mittens instead of fighting.
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  148. I think you could see the difference between non-commissioned officers and officers, as in any society. Some generals were opportunists. If you take a random SS captain, he had more or less right-wing ideas.
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  149. Legend has it that Finnish snipers climbed trees. More likely, the Soviets had never seen an electrician. https://youtu.be/omLOH1NLss8
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  150. You can sell it, but it's valued close to zero 😆
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  151.  @n00btotale  I say it's socialism.
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  152. In Finland, "blow the whistle" means literally charging off into the fog and smoke of no man's land presumably to die. Fortunately, that didn’t happen during my time. We dragged a recoilless gun in the woods, near the Russian border. Nowadays obsolete, but almost identical to 10.5 cm Leichtgeschütz 40.
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  153. I do not disagree with many things, but a German car was generally better than a Soviet car. As for the number of Ukrainian famine victims, I believe in the Russian Duma, which has declared 7 million casualties. Nor was it an accident.
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  154. I know that a Western Christian sounds strange when talking about Lenin, but 15% of the population didn't consider themselves Orthodox. If you want a positive picture of the Tsardom, "Za spichkami" is a romantic comedy written by Algot Untola in 1910 (Mosfilm 1980).
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  155.  @QronoZ713  You’re probably wearing pink, because you think colors don't exist.
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  156.  @nikolajsivanovs3547  Because I wouldn't want to die in the siege of Leningrad. When we flip a coin, we assume that there is no major difference between the two sides. Even SS troops, for example, had drivers who didn't shoot with their rifles at all.
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  157.  @nikolajsivanovs3547  "ALL members of the ss commit crimes." When a completely biased Allied court declared them innocent, they are free men. Laws are not retrospectively enacted in this neck of the woods, as in some Soviet slums. Now go home and get your f**king shinebox!
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  158.  @MarshallJukov  Actually, I'll retract what I said. Finland lost the Winter War, but won the Continuation War in september 1944. The Red Army suffered heavy losses in Germany while Finns were celebrating and drinking cognac at home.
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  159.  @MarshallJukov  Pocket change. It's a fair compensation for the white slave labor and starvation deaths. And it was paid off before Stalin died.
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  160. I disagree..French and Dutch troops are worse. The Regular Italian Army is undervalued. Militia is a different matter.
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  161.  @natekaufman1982  Mexico is a rare case in which Mexican civies carried out all war crimes in Mexico : )
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  162.  @Raskolnikov70  Modern warfare is more like police work. Although RK 62 also has "high-speed" mode, we were taught in Finland to use only the semi-automatic mode. However, there is a Finnish volunteer company in Iraq where I can imagine them using fully automatic firing mode while cleaning apartments. Btw. Degtjarjova LMG was named "Emma" in Finland, because the magazine resembles an audio record. https://youtu.be/NW7nHjc6Y7A
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  163.  @Legolas3111  I would say the Nazi party ideology was Big tent, Centrism, Social conservatism, National conservatism, German nationalism and Statism, which is socialism. By no means a far-right movement, rather center-left wing.
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  164. To be honest, I find it pretty irrelevant which one wins. My grandpa sabotaged the Kirov railway and was not even promoted. However, in civilian life he had better luck than the "winners" had.
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  165.  @big.atom37  You don’t understand because you’re defending your ancap tribe with a keyboard instead of serving in the military.
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  166. Paraphrasing Richard S. You'll never be English, be yourself.
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  167. Old-world South Africa feels a bit like Serbia or Ireland because the British don’t like them.
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  168.  @aidanb.315  However, they praise Yugoslavia. Mere separatism or nationalism is not fascism.
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  169. "Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century." - Vladimir Putin https://youtu.be/MwSYz82k1KA
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  170. In my opinion, the argument that everyone was racist is perfectly valid. No biggie.
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  171. Plus, they're late in in September 1944. First an organized retreat, then a ceasefire, and finally a casual march to the 1940 border. Excluding the Petsamo area in the north. https://youtu.be/-AUdP-QVEKA
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  172. They're both very similar. 1. Autocracy, Absolute monarchy 2. City State, Special Administrative Region In practice, people always form some kind of government, but in theory number two is a night-watchman state.
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  173. A Finnish veteran told he had captured a Kyrgyz child soldier, which was unusual. However, I wouldn't be surprised if the prisoner was a malnourished teenager and therefore small compared to the Nordic people. (Kyrgyz prisoner in the picture is not related to the case.) https://www.sotasampo.fi/fi/photographs/page/sakuva_75523 The Russians are a colorful bunch, says the caption about a wounded Kyrgyz. https://www.sotasampo.fi/fi/photographs/page/sakuva_83640
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  174.  @WandererRTF  In short, team Stalin got rekt.
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  175. They also escorted Soviet bombers over Finland. To my understanding the Anglo-Finnish War ended in December 1941.
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  176.  @richardadams8036  Or miscalculated as civilians. Take a look at French riots with fire bombs flying. 3: 1 seems more credible. Women also served in the Red Army and typically in developing countries the median age is around 28 years. There are not so many civilians to begin with.
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  177.  @sthomas7002  Dumdum bullets used by the Soviet Union were banned at the Hague convention.
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  178.  @aleksazunjic9672  That was 1918. Mensheviks were inside the Finnish goverment during WW2. Bolsheviks, such as Yrjö Leino and Vladimir Kirpichnikov would not have survived, if they had been shot immediately.
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  179. Also true that regular army is a form of collectivism. Major battles between regulars and irregulars heavily favor the regulars. Although the Soviet Union and Greater Germany were two different political entities, Hitler went as left-wing as possible without alienating his base. Technically, Hitler "resigned" himself and named Großadmiral Karl Dönitz as president of the Reich and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces. In some countries, there is not even a party organization, but a mere family dynasty such as Kim I - III.
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  180. Wasn't he a war veteran? It might explain his point of view.
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  181.  @aniksamiurrahman6365  Infantry Regiment 11 landed unopposed at the port of Tornio. Feels like a Garden party compared to Normandy, that's why you've never heard of it. Cold climate though.
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  182.  @aniksamiurrahman6365  I bet you don’t
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  183.  @sylvainprigent6234  That was a real war. Finland's d-day (Battle of Tornio) was a fire brigade and police operation. Maybe "little Christmas" is a better analogy, a traditional party held to anticipate Christmas. https://youtu.be/_E9NU3mclCU
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  184. But quoting Hitler is not a bad taste?
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  185. You are a mercenary. They were conscripts. Suppose that peace is concluded in 1940. The Nazis would have censored a few books and a couple of movies. Maybe a stamp would have been issued in honour of Adolf Hitler in Liverpool. France would have been only partially occupied. That said, I think 1945 is the good old days for the Western Europe and neutral countries.
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  186.  @dermotrooney9584  Despite that setback, by late 1944, four countries switched from the Axis Powers to the Allies. In the case of Mannerheim, he switched from the Russian Empire (1914-17) to German Empire (1918), and later from Finland (1939-40) to the Axis Powers (1941-44), and lastly to the Allies (1944-45). In my opinion, the United States could have skipped the whole western front, but that's alternative history.
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  187.  @maximbravo6835  "What was stopping them". According to you, they were escorted out from Pelkosenniemi. lol the Soviets had a brass band there. Nowhere near the border. I agree Finland lost Vyborg in 1940 and Petsamo in 1944. The Reds lost Hanko 1941, Ivalo 1945 and Porkkala 1956. Mauno Pekkala and Yrjö Leino lost the election in 1948.
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  188.  @DaveSCameron  Seeing the Baltic countries as an attacker is misleading.
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  189. Halder was like..finally! These people ruined my plan.
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  190.  Uncle Joe S  If Marshal Mannerheim were to rise from his grave and be elected Governor General of Australia, you would not notice any difference.
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  191.  Uncle Joe  Exactly. You would not notice any difference if Mannerheim were appointed by the Queen (Thor or whatever) as Prime Minister and Governor-General of Australia. The overall tax rate would remain unchanged.
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  192.  Pedro Kantor  Epic movie. Here in Eastern Finland, life has changed more during the last 20 years than in the period between 1323 to 1970. A recent study corroborates the previously reported genetic division into eastern and western Finland and indicates that this division runs along the border established by the Treaty of Nöteborg in 1323. It was possible to identify most research subjects (born before the 1970s) as eastern or western Finns with higher than 80% probability.
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  193.  @ericfischer4458  Young people don't remember that cohabitation was illegal. That’s why, in the movies, they often ended up in a barn.
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  194.  CipiRipi00  I would say the state owns 40% to 45%. Owning something does not mean interfering. Back in the day, nobles got involved because no literate managers were available.
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  195. Even more bizarre, why the USSR didn't declare war on Germany. They knew in advance that Germany would attack Russia.
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  196.  @fringedweller5425  Hitler resigns (commits suicide / is assassinated) 1943. Dönitz takes office. Problem solved.
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  197.  @shellshockedgerman3947  Ireland and Switzerland started the war. They had huge losses in WW2....except it didn’t happen. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Russia#Soviet_Union_(1922–1991)
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  198.  @nicholasconder4703  No problem. Finnish mainly has postpositions, where the order of the elements is reversed. That's why every Indo-European language (excluding vodka labels) is difficult for me. Welcome to opposite land: https://youtu.be/tT41pOtcmoY
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  199. In Finland we have a classified list of Stasi agents. They are all state leaders and members of the Social Democratic Party. Kind of public secret. Imagine if you were a former Gestapo agent. Well, we're just gonna classify everything, so it doesn’t affect our popularity.
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  200. Decolonization was a rather complex and slow process. As I recall, the UK didn't take part in the Vietnam War, but Australia did. Not to mention the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis. However, they are culturally closer than some other countries.
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  201. Jakarta Cathedral was built before the Russian Revolution. Still standing.
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  202. I am not saying that there is much to be done in the case of Poland. However, Bulgaria, mostly inhabited by South Slavs, did quite well during WW2. Involvement in the genocide has also been vastly exaggerated. Bulgaria was the only Axis country that increased its pre-war territory.
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  203. Liberals think Stalin didn't have racial fetishes. "The Finnish Government also accepts the obligation to intern German and Hungarian nationals in Finnish territory" Why not Swedes? This explains why colonel Aladár Paasonen joined the CIA. He was born in Budapest, Hungary.
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  204.  @_Abjuranax_  Stalin was probably suffocated with a pillow. You may be right, but you cannot know with 100% certainty. Dönitz was the last man standing. I think the Mitchell and Webb sketch was pretty funny.
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  205.  @Matt_History  Here's an honest election: SDP 39.7% https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939_Finnish_parliamentary_election
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  206. Werner Teske was the last person to be executed in East Germany before the death penalty was abolished in 1987. Putin claims that he resigned with the rank of lieutenant colonel on 20 August 1991, on the second day of the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt against the Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.
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  207. They have since banned mines to facilitate the entry of Russians, but the army has still not been disbanded. I think it (Ottawa Treaty) is a mistake because demining technology has improved. To my recollection, Finnish troop numbers peaked peaked in the 1970s. After all, we wouldn’t have needed the Army if there was no threat.
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  208. Interestingly, two of my comments were deleted. Apparently, asking a question or quoting a statistic gathered by the International Diabetes Federation, is not allowed. I humbly apologize to my overlords.
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  209. At least the Forssa program mentions direct democracy as its goal, which they rejected after the war. Originally quite moderately socialist, albeit progressive
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  210. Laphroaig 10 Year Old Single Malt and a cigar. Or whatever Gin do you drink there.
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  211.  @TheImperatorKnight  Also, if you want to promote libertarianism, a list of some of the most popular tax haven countries is far better than reminding people of the Irish Potato Famine. On the other hand, countries that were relatively unaffected by the WW2 such as  Sweden  experienced considerable economic growth from 1945 to 1973.
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  212. I’m not sure if they were so far-sighted that they would have hoped for the US occupation. Interestingly, Brezhnev canceled the German "Volksarmee" invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
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  213. Infamous Fallschirm-Panzer Division Hermann Göring had a shortage of flying tanks.
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  214. Don't forget SA 🇿🇦
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  215.  B A  Poland's geographical position was notoriously difficult. However, the Polish government-in- exile didn't declare war on Finland. Mannerheim had spent many years in Poland, at one point leading a regiment stationed in the Royal Łazienki.
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  216.  @88porpoise  Says a lot that less than 3,500 of the 500,000 Finns surrendered. 95,000 KIA. They preferred to take a bullet.
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  217. @lati long I like how Russians make this same argument. Probably 6% were Benito's fans. Only 0,5% joined the Nazies after the Winter War.
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  218.  Pedro Kantor  I have no resentment towards Mexican native Americans 🙋🏻‍♂️😁😎 https://youtu.be/6pgUymyAavA
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  219. Professor at the University of Turku says that no evidence has been found against Finnish SS men. A complete myth that all SS men would have committed crimes. https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-11183858
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  220.  @handle1603  You don't rant about Mengistu Haile Mariam. The only reason you would rant about Germans is that you are a racist.
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  221.  @OchotaJack  Surprisingly, not even the Greeks have heard of Greece. Ioannis Ladas glorified not only the 4th of August Regime, but also the Third Reich. As a colonel in 1967, he was in charge of the Greek Military Police https://youtu.be/kZ3T0DDgroY
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  222.  @OchotaJack  Ladas fought, as an officer, in the Greco-Italian War of 1940.
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  223.  @Pavlos_Charalambous  There is no censorship in real life. Welcome to the Gothic line. https://youtu.be/hRW19C5IHas
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  224. @Le Petit Historien Monarchies also vary a lot ranging from constitutional to absolutism. And some alleged constitutional monarchy may not be such in practice. Sweden, Bhutan and Brunei are very different.
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  225. Urho Kekkonen was a neo-Nazi after deporting Jewish refugees already during the war. Although he did not actually persecute any single group, he favored the Nordics. As a corporatist, Kekkonen balanced between employers and trade unions. He also accepted quite a bit of criticism. https://suomenpresidentit.fi/kekkonen/?lang=en Finland's jews: https://youtu.be/emgOzd0ng1A
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  226.  @panosfasoul699  Radicalism is the opposite of conservatism. Someone might say Hitler was radical. Liberal conservatism is popular especially in developed countries. e.g The People's Action Party in Singapore. Of course a person can be a radical young man and later an old conservative dictator, like Castro. This has nothing to do with economic policy. For example, Thai military junta is authoritarian and conservative.
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  227. Not a cell phone in sight. Just people enjoying the compact cassette
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  228.  @catacutan96  TIK mentioned the famine in Siberia. Due to self-sufficiency, the impact on indigenous peoples was probably less severe. Their main subsistence comes from hunting and reindeer herding. The more of these precious resources you use, the more reliance you will have on others. Even in difficult situations, the reindeer liver can be used as a medium of exchange.
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  229.  @TheImperatorKnight  That sounds like drug cartel propaganda. Although some countries use the word "drugstore", prescription medicine is not a drug. It's a completely different matter to buy heroin from a criminal than to take legal stimulants. British soldiers, like others, are prescribed medicines (modafil etc.) as needed.
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  230.  @dragosstanciu9866  Both are banned from Twitter?
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  231. That's one of my favorites. I have doubts about everything that has been written since the 1980s.
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  232. Russia was a dictatorship as it is today, but I don’t think they are starving.
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  233.  @TheImperatorKnight  It's not a very cold city. The Stalingrad film (1993) was shot partly in Finland in much colder conditions. When you look at old photos, there is not much snow even in January.
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  234. I suspect it's around 11 million. More if you count from 1933. I think it's good idea to set a 19yo NCO as the company commander for a while. This happened near Malgobek, when the Nordland regiment was obliterated in 1942, a real life scenario.
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  235.  @LazyPictures  Bulgaria acted wisely by going into Cold War mode right from the start, and then switched sides.
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  236. According to the legend, that particular stug III switched from the axis powers to the allies, and is still in service https://youtu.be/fJs-7D878h8
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  237. 30:50 Your image of the American Nazi is historically inaccurate, because the KKK was anti-Catholic at the time. Also, most of Afrikaners were Protestants. They were British allies (cannon fodder). Italy, Austria, Slovakia and Croatia are mostly Catholic.
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  238. Socialism means co-ownership. Under communism, some gangsters try to run oil production inefficiently. Unemployed are excluded from the state's provision of security in both capitalism and communism.
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  239.  @CB-py1xh  Yes, that is one-party socialism, which often leads to autocracy or even dynasty. Eventually, to conservatism. In a dictatorship, working class ownership depends on the whims of those in power. All Western countries are jointly owned, although the percentage varies from country to country.
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  240. ​ @comiccollex958 In Finland, we have higher taxation than in Cuba. I would be under a bridge without my grandfather's forest and fields. He was more prosperous than many of us.
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  241. Do you want him deleted from history?
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  242.  @dreamcrusher112  I have a BSc in Ecofascism
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  243.  @dreamcrusher112  A Catholic boarding school? My condolences.
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  244. Marshal is like the leader of a small nation. People think that oak leaves are distributed to everyone. Even if I was better than Manstein, it wouldn't change anything without implementation in real life. They also strongly criticize even those who tried to assassinate Hitler, which is strange. Our dear leader A. Hitler?
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  245.  @uschurch  I am a sympathizer, but I’m not a fan of interventionism and preemptive strikes. Rather, I am in favor of small nations such as Quebec, Scotland, Ireland and Estonia.
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  246. Against women, says thumbnail. Basically, you found one year in a thousand years of history when perhaps some of the Allies were better at this particular topic. Most of them aren’t better, though. New Zealand is up there, I'll give you that.
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  247. To the best of my recollection, Putin speaks German and lived in DDR. He arrived in Dresden in the mid-1980s. Sergei Lavrov claimed that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler "had Jewish blood". Perhaps Russia can be called nazbol state inspired by Strasserism
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  248.  @SmotritelMayaka29  Taliban won thanks to their incredible logistics, hygiene and ingenuity.
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  249. Youtube CEO is a Polish Jewish woman, which says it all.
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  250. Even that is deliberate propaganda, because Barbarossa succeeded beyond expectations and ended in December fifth.
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  251. Putin is not nearly as anti-German as TIK.
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  252. Sounds strange, but that's the idea of ​​alternative history. I could imagine liberals giving countries away, as happened in the decolonization of Africa.
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  253. Actually, a massive concentration of soldiers were in Norway. Germany was bombed less than Vietnam. Bonn, Rome, Vienna and Helsinki were occupied for a shorter time than Kabul.
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  254. The first editor of Commando (comics), Charles Checkley, and his deputy Ian Forbes (who later became the second editor) both served in the Second World War. George Low remarked that Forbes always had a great respect for the Germans and that it was important that distinctions be made between fanatical Nazis and the ordinary German soldiers. Maybe one of these is pro-German? Poll: WWII Movies From a Nazi German Perspective https://www.imdb.com/poll/Al5pGD-ivGA/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Boot_(TV_series) Other Axis powers and co-belligerents https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1944_(film) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unknown_Soldier_(2017_film) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1932695/ Mussolini ultimo atto (1974)
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  255. The old covenant socialists were downright conservative by modern standards.
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  256. I recommend Kings and Generals: Winter War Full 3d.
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  257.  @spiffygonzales5160  The Lord works in mysterious ways. I would expect these people to be whacked: Paul Hausser, Otto Kumm, Felix Steiner, Kurt Meyer, Herbert Gille, Sepp Dietrich, Wilhelm Bittrich, Erich Kern, Hubert Meyer.
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  258. Price regulation also applies to the United States. And even today (at least here in Finland), you still see ads saying: one per household. There were quite skilled CEOs in the 1940s, as some companies are still standing. Perhaps the system in Western democracies was like Japan in the 1980s, where the job was a sort of lifelong commitment. The alternative was living in a cardboard box.
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  259. @ZombifiedFish I guess the one-party system is progressive compared to a family dynasty, but I would not say revolutionary. Nazism is actually more common than we think: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nationalizations_by_country
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  260.  @reuvenpolonskiy2544  Russia and Estonia are the most culturally similar to Finland. This debate just proves how dangerous multiculturalism is, even with so familiar countries. More dangerous than a nuclear bomb. Just look at how beautiful Hiroshima is without multiculturalism.
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  261.  @williestyle35  Because we have the will to constitute a people. If I hated them, I would use deadly weapons.
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  262. Maybe a mild British narrative, but it doesn't hurt the viewing experience. Of the current 200 nations in the world, the British have invaded all but 22 of them. Most recent unnecessary war was the NATO-led military intervention in Libya. As McNamara said, proportionality should be a guideline in war.
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  263.  @spicytuna421  My conclusion is that Germany won. When examining the sentences imposed on criminals, the punishments handed down by German judiciary are harsher than those of the Americans. Perhaps a draw on the eastern front. Also, the Vietnam War is considered a defeat, even though it was milder on an annual basis than the current virus. In reality, propaganda defeat.
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  264. Albert Speer was one of the high-level witnesses. Hauptsturmführer Y. P. I. Kaila said hunting Jews was idiotic. David John Cawdell Irving net worth is $19 Million. Draw your own conclusions.
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  265.  @JohnEstenCooke398  You can watch Albert Speer on youtube. Kaila is remembered as an authoritarian leader, which makes him a whistleblower. David Irving is as honest as CNN.
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  266. "threw up in my mouth" How did you benefit? Perhaps I'm a bit autistic, but I have never understood why people go there. Like going to a cemetery to see random graves.
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  267.  @scratchy996  True. It's just one country among others. I'd say the war only escalated later, as if in a bar fight. This was just policing or Greco-Roman wrestling. The Kriegsmarine was instructed to avoid hostile acts against US ships so as not to give cause for a declaration of war. The British also left "Festung Norwegen" untouched. Big mistake? : )
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  268.  @philvanderlaan5942  I thought English resistance means resisting the English.. I’m not sure if the Allied (2016) film plot happened in the UK, but it did happen in France. Oh it did happen in London. Mathilde Carré was sent to London to infiltrate the SOE.
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  269.  @Seven_FM  I did not know that Leningrad stretched to Kiev.
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  270.  @shelonnikgrumantov5061  I live in abundance. Your problem is not my problem.
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  271. The Hangover Part II. Ed Helms as Stu, a jewish dentist. Come to think of it, pretty racist or realistic movie, however you want to call it.
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  272. Finland was already independent and the tsar was dead, so there wasn't much to do. On the other hand, the Finns and the Allies did support the Russians (Whites). "Second: In order to avoid looting and slaughtering, Finnish army won't enter Petrograd but will move ahead to the line of Volkhov River. A special unit of White Finns formed of highly reliable people will enter Petrograd to ensure order." http://heninen.net/miekka/1919_e.htm
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  273. It should be noted that the Eastern European anti-Communist insurgencies kept on fighting after the official end of the WW2. Manstein made Paulus a scapegoat for political reasons in the Cold War atmosphere.
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  274. I don't want to be a grammar Nazi, but Hjalmar is a Scandinavian male given name.
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  275.  @Guilherme-ms3ub  There is also a lot of overlap with Judaism in Christianity. I wouldn’t say the SS was a Christian movement. It was more like a destructive cult, at its best as Mormon Church. Nevertheless, over 50%...60% were Christians, given the support of post-war Christian parties.
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  276.  @damyr  Actually, Himmler understood the military situation better than Hitler.
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  277. I understand he worked as an obstetrician after the war. Did he work in the public sector? In any case, it must have been quite a painful experience to be a customer.
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  278.  @hjalmar4565  Considering all the participants, there was no completely peaceful period from 1914 to 1945. Selecting another date (than 1 September 1939) will change the aggressor. France and Belgium occupied the Ruhr Valley on 11 January 1923. Or a later date: Britain declared war on Finland, Hungary and Romania on 5 December 1941, even though the USA did not declare war on Finland.
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  279. You should write a book. Funny how they declared that the RAF had won in Finland, even though they achieved almost no visible results. 'Nationale Volksarmee' was also highly regarded within the Warsaw Pact. In my humble opinion: https://youtu.be/2CRFbVezdyk
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  280. "chose to drop the 2nd Atomic bomb" Huh? No offense, but you sound a bit lunatic yourself. You might as well argue that Slovenia was treasonous to Yugoslavia. No, they are patriotic. Perhaps Trump as a speaker is not as talented, but in practice he was more liberal than FDR who supported racial segregation. Both allied with Russia.
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  281. But they didn't capture the city. So it was actually ingenious. Never heard of Hiroshima?
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  282. If Germany had conquered France and Belgium, Hitler would have died in 1932 and the wars in Congo, Vietnam and Algeria would not have taken place 😉
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  283.  @waysidetimes9226  I once saw 4-5 year old British children working at night in the Philippines. This happened in 2010. I was pretty much red pilled in terms of immigration, race and iq. Granted, a healthy balance is good in every subject.
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  284. Hmm let me think. https://youtu.be/tFPr-zAXNuc
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  285. 55:00 I'm definitely a collectivist, but I don't endorse inheritance tax, mass conscription (Volkssturm) and/or autocracy. I do approve self-determination, social conservatism and conscription (for certain countries).
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  286.  @stevewatson6839  Russia is about 45 times bigger than Japan. If I was Stalin, I would have packed my suitcase and declared Moscow an open city.
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  287. @typo pit They were still quite racist. Most prisoners were released in 1948, went to work and acquired weapons, so it was too late to do much. Laws banning "race-mixing" were enforced in certain U.S. states until 1967.
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  288.  @stevewatson6839  You know the Winter war lasted three and a half months, not twenty years. We never leave a soldier behind. Besides, the population of Finland grew faster than today. When subtract those who were KIA, we still got 175K additional people. Reds handed over Ivalo, Kuusamo and Porkkala without a fight. They are not looking for farmland, they need money.
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  289.  @paulpartington85  Only a few of the 6th SS Mountain Division's men had resigned from the church, which was the official recommendation. Especially post-war opinions are well known. That being said, I'm not claiming every battalion was Christian.
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  290.  Dwarov 1  "No-one respects a country with a poor army. All respect a country with a good army. I raise my toast to the Finnish Army and the representatives of it here, General Heinrichs and General Oinonen." - Joseph Stalin
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  291.  @Alvi410  Lend-Lease automatically makes you war criminals. When are you going to pay war reparations?
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  292. I didn’t leave the Social Democratic party, the Social Democratic Party left me.
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  293. I'm pretty sure this happened in every country neighboring the USSR. In Finland, conditions were similar for the so-called tribal battalions, which were assembled from various Soviet nationalities. Battalion No. 3 Included even one platoon of ethnic Finns who had served in the Red Army. At least 172 soldiers fled to Sweden. They were hunted until the 1950s.
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  294.  @piecia66  Exactly. How to build an empire.
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  295.  @Paciat  They would also go into action, escorting Russian bombers to targets in Finland. It's worth remembering that at no point did the United States declare war on Finland. They even had a representative in Helsinki until the summer of 1944. Why do people mock Neville Chamberlain if/when Czechoslovakia doesn’t matter. The Prague communist-led government nationalized most companies and was not willing to compensate American investors. It remained National Socialist until 1989.
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  296. @lati long Take a look "Swiss Armed Forces (1964)". About 100 casualties during WW2. That's how it's done.
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  297.  @Bogatyr92  So this is White supremacist propaganda?
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  298.  @johnwolf2829  For example, SS-captain Yrjö Paavo Ilmari (Y. P. I.) Kaila served under Franco. He was wounded in Spain. Too bad the Nazis weren't allowed to vote in 1945. We would have gotten an accurate picture of their political orientation. However, the Wehrmacht was pretty much divided fifty-fifty between christian conservatives and social democrats in Austria. The Communists won only four seats, which some blamed on the conduct of the Red Army in the Soviet occupied zone of Austria.
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  299.  @Raskolnikov70  Three is common. Maybe it makes sense, if you count 3 bosses and 4 deputies.
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  300.  @IndSovU  At least in Finland some officers are representatives of a trade union, but mostly university educated managers. Non-commissioned officers are fifty-fifty small business owners and workers.
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  301. Occupational safety was not important at the time, many people died on construction sites still in the 1980s. Early retreat from Stalingrad would have been a victory in the long run.
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  302.  @kaletovhangar  Not that I'm I disputing your findings, but wing commander Lauri Pekuri was trained in the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was not an open society, we can never know for sure. Besides, this was an artillery (only) battle.
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  303. The Hitler salute is not Germanic at all. Rome was not a nation. "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer " is populist propaganda. When was this slogan announced?
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  304. They are natural born Nazis or born to Communist dictatorships, less in Russia. Assuming the Allies did not kill the children and relatives of the enemy soldiers. https://youtu.be/Rv1yZ6tq3mY
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  305.  @czechpatriot2230  Yeah, I realized Jan is also Finnish name. Jani is more common though. Tapio Rautavaara, a veteran of the Eastern Front, wrote the song "Kulkuri veljeni Jan". Roughly translated my vagabond brother Jan.
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  306. Plot twist, they were conservatives. Chauvinism: The 1936 code put restrictions on abortion and imposed fines and jail time for any that received or performed the service. Racism: Soviet media accused Chechens of being associated with "banditism". This resulted in ethnic cleansing operation in 1944. Homofobia: Khruschev’s reformers discussed Stalin’s law against male homosexuality, and chose to keep it.
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  307. I'm not totally against unions, although many things here are true. Non-members are small entrepreneurs such as fishermen, farmers, petty criminals and prostitutes. Let's face it, the United States has a lot of socialist and even national socialist features, such as the prison system (created after the war).
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  308. So you say the German state media of WW2 is honest. I just watched a German news video from 1944 and it says nothing about the Holocaust
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  309. "Daniil Solovyov, 21 year-old son of propagandist Vladimir, is working as a model in London (it must be his mama’s genes)." At least you can't blame him for being stupid.
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  310. Seating arrangement is decided by voting. Germany was a single-party state, therefore they can't be placed on the left-right axis.
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  311. Das Boot (2018– ), second season. Sky studios? lol..In my opinion slightly soapy, albeit entertaining https://m.imdb.com/title/tt5830254/ In Poland, it is even a prohibited topic by law, and I am not surprised.
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  312.  @n00btotale  Conscription in the United States ended in 1973, but males aged between 18 and 25 are required to register with the Selective Service System to enable a reintroduction of conscription if necessary.
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  313.  @juliancate7089  Go to hospital
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  314.  @senakaweeraratna741  Probably via Sweden, because they were neutral. Finns drink coffee though.
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  315. Czechoslovakia 1968.
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  316. Probably due to a vegetarian diet and contraceptive pills.
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  317. My point was that the US wasn't liberal. KKK was an anti-Catholic movement, just as the IRA was anti-Protestant. Nowadays, it may be a bit vague and difficult to identify different cultural areas.
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  318. Hitler was Austrian. Nazism increased and he was more popular in Austria in 1955 compared to 1933. Hitler was some kind of organizational psychopath, but I wouldn't call him stupid. Just like Putin sends those who threaten him to Ukraine. Hitler dismissed Fritz Darges on the spot and had him transferred to the Eastern Front.
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  319. Rarely does anyone call themselves a slave, except maybe some Christians. In Finnish, origin of the word slave (orja) is Aryan, and Russian means to fail (ryssiä).
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  320. Unnecessary, he worded politely. I blame the Swedes.
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  321.  @rickglorie  Josef Schicklgruber is an  Austrian  footballer who last played for FC Pasching. Alois Schicklgruber (Adolf's father) changed his surname in 1877 to Hitler.
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  322.  @atoll8423  We are talking about WW2. Kim Il-Sung, Hồ Chí Minh and Mao Zedong are your allies. Sounds bad, but at least they aren't racists like the Germans.
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  323.  @keeganharris186  In the EU, I am mainly annoyed by the Dutch, who are fanatical conscientious objectors, yet reaping the benefits of democracy.
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  324. Every system has its pros and cons. The problem with libertarianism is neo-feudalism, which manifests itself as unequal rights and legal protections for common people and for nobility. While there are exceptions, most countries are failing to make serious inroads against corruption.
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  325. Draft is taxation with representation
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  326.  @SepticFuddy  25 years later, Pakistanis were as effective as Germans
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  327.  @echochamber4095  According to Peter Thiel, Competition is For Losers. As a Centrist optimist, I think both monopolies are fine. However, the commission has launched three separate  antitrust  investigations into Google. They'll make the final decision in summer. I think tax evasion is a more serious matter than antitrust violations. In Finland, Google is not among the top 100.
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  328.  @DaveSCameron  Do you mean Nordic SS troops vs Republic of Finland. To my recollection, they were sent to Ardennes. The Lapland War was a small event on a WW2 scale, and nowhere near what happened in Yugoslavia.
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  329.  @kingorange7739  My gut reaction says it was crucial. There were probably 60 American-funded divisions on the Eastern Front. How many malnourished divisions would the Soviet penny stretchers get at that price? 100 ... 120? The Japan Times, As food crisis threatens, humanitarian aid for North Korea grinds to a halt: https://tinyurl.com/v5jud3h
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  330.  @andreykuchin6367  If that's true, opening the second front in -43...- 44 seems unnecessary.
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  331.  @IHateYoutubeHandlesVeryMuch  That's a misunderstanding. Nor does the Großdeutsches Reich claim to contain socialism.
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  332. Read about Mao's sex life. He was one of the few bisexuals in such a high position.
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  333.  @MarshallJukov  In a single battle, Viljam Pylkäs killed 83 Communists with a submachine gun. He was promoted to Sergeant in 1968.
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  334.  @MarshallJukov  Finland lost, but the Soviet Union is miserable even when it wins. In fact, the Continuation War was Finland's golden age. The bombing of Helsinki failed completely. https://youtu.be/-fZ-u6F6nAc
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  335.  @MarshallJukov  So what, they had to leave a double steak out of the burger in 1946. At the same time, there was famine in the Soviet Union. It's nice that the disabled Russians were allowed to eat more than just sand, thanks to Finns. As for the "lost" areas, they are withering away. The truth is that towns have been reduced to rubble without proper maintenance. It's a worthless wasteland, and I don't even blame the Russians.
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  336.  @MarshallJukov  Nice, but the Komi aren't Finns. A bit like mixing Swedes and Danes. There was no famine in Finland in the 20th century. Here is one example of a helpless refugee born in Vyborg: https://tinyurl.com/ryoh3w6
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  337. However, they had merged into Serbs by 1990. Socialist Slobodan Milošević supported Radovan Karadžić, whose father had been a Chetnik. Ratko Mladić's father was a member of the Yugoslav Partisans.
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  338.  @pietersteenkamp5241  True, but it's not worth worrying about. “give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and give to God what belongs to God."
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  339.  @pietersteenkamp5241  The Soviet Union did not have the muscle for world domination, but pretty much the whole Union was created by crushing local governments, which is imperialism.
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  340. @Fabian Kirchgessner Another question is how "progressive" was the SPD at the time. Divorce, abortion, and the birth control pill didn't exist. I suspect their goal was to hold fair elections, which sounds quite Republican.
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  341.  @dragosstanciu9866  Chamberlain was a thin commie sympathizing fuck To be serious, Chamberlain, FDR and Truman didn't declare war on Finland.
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  342. Good. We can enjoy the Ardennes Offensive in December.
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  343. He has evolved.
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  344.  @thefrenchareharlequins2743  Technically, we have already conquered you. France and Germany have troops in Mali. France is occupying Nigeria. Mali is not in British interest, but Nigeria is a member of the Commonwealth. Personally, I am an isolationist, but in practice this is the price to pay, so that April 9th (1940) ​​does not happen again in Finland.
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  345. Man cannot live in a tank permanently. As a former APILAS man, I don't even think about oil.
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  346. My grandpa served under Lieutenant Colonel Arnold Majewski
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  347. Stalin probably said ethnicity is a social construct. Obviously, FDR disagreed.
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  348.  @roberthansen5727  "No one here mentions the existence of Einsatzkommando Finnland either" I did mention hundreds of deaths. They were not innocent civilians, except those few refugees. Go to the marketplace with a rifle in your hand and start preaching. https://youtu.be/Uig4YPzNct8
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  349.  @annairinastoll2960  To my recollection, he drank a schnapps of liqueur or cognac (dark fluid) in June 1942. He wasn't drunk though.
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  350. Ethnic origins of the Russians https://youtu.be/ZaoKr4pYbEY
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  351.  @Seven_FM  Do you mean the Soviet Union lost the war? Mannerheim was promoted to the head of state and removed from the list of war criminals. To be honest, I think the Finnish government is too liberal. All in all, they have done a good job https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_inequality-adjusted_HDI
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  352. Yeah, ridiculous propaganda. Old Scandinavian is a stage of development of North Germanic dialects. Viking refers to a person living in Skandinavia and Iceland before Christianity. Excluding the reindeer herders, who lived further north.
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  353. KGB Files is a pretty interesting channel. Not surprisingly, they didn’t want a conservative in the White House.
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  354.  @johnd2058  More populist than Marxist, which is understandable, but not always historically true.
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  355. ​ @Milkmans_Son Today, hospitals use district heating, but back then they looked like factories
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  356. Red Army troops and Germans were in Finland at the same time. As former rocket man, it's easier for me to understand Barbarossa than Overlord. You would think that the Atlantic Ocean would cool down a conflict. Better question, what if Hitler had left the North Atlantic and sent a few captains to be tried in the US mainland.
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  357. On the other hand, it's low-intensity Balkanization. If you’re not part of the regular military, you’re just a street thug. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Years_of_Lead_(Italy)
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  358. Comparing the Polish economy with Germany is like saying the Allied economic policy was lousy in Dresden, Hiroshima etc. Nor does he realize that simply joining the Anti-Comintern Pact brings resources, not reduce. Even if you ignore the Swiss (60% speak German as their native language), Continental Europeans did better than South Asians, which is forgotten in such a narrow perspective.
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  359. Breathing gas as a bloody testicle drops into the field would explain a lot
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  360.  @PieterKleij  "People were even selling their daughters" Lol nothing has changed.
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  361. Well, it's a matter of opinion what is reluctant. Probably a couple of divisions were born in Finland and thus conscripts in the FDF. https://youtu.be/KsP9MW0vUE8
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  362. All peoples have the right to self-determination. I think the Papuan tribes are a bit too tribal, though.
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  363.  @picklickwick  Yes, when it's broken down into smaller units, we are talking about football hooliganism, Minnesota and gangs. Otherwise, social conservatism and defending property, which is centrism or right-leaning.
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  364. Empires tend to expand. Without credible defense on this side of the border, Russia would invade tomorrow.
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  365.  @dantecaputo2629  It makes sense if we believe the narrative of this channel.
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  366. @Dav serban We can be proud because the blood money was paid back in the 1950s. It's the poor man's Nuke. Truth be told, I do not believe that sins can be inherited.
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  367.  @manichaean1888  I would also like to point out that a significant proportion of Finns are in fact Western Slavs (including me). https://www.helsinki.fi/en/news/life-science/finlands-recent-history-is-inscribed-in-the-genes
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  368.  @alxix001  sometimes written Ouranos
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  369. See you on the Beach
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  370.  @zexal4217  How many fled to South America or Sweden? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalervo_Kurkiala
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  371.  @canadious6933  Exactly. And don't forget that Italy joined the Allies in 1943 and the rest of Axis turned against Germany in 1944, so the Axis countries' losses should be counted as Allies.
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  372. Divide et impera is the oldest trick in the book. The British had troops everywhere (see random colony), so they couldn’t really focus on anything.
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  373. Poland occupied German lands and didn't want to ally despite Hitler's attempts. Agrarian society needs living space. Croatia is practically a Catholic part of Serbia. I don't see any contradiction. You left out "the blue eyed" China and India who sided with the allies
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  374. Hard to come up with anyone completely neutral. Even the Swiss have been much influenced by Germany
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  375. Likewise. I guess it's due to the algorithm
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  376. You are cherry picking in such a way that proper randomization is not achieved. For example, the Brazilian Expeditionary Force consisted of about 25,900 men out of 40 million. Is that good logistics, when several million men didn't leave home. Most allies never arrived at the battlefield.
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  377.  @TheImperatorKnight  Then what's the problem? Imagine 4.5 million Brazilians storming the beaches of Italy. They could have changed history.
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  378. I am Finnish, and I approve this, because the Soviet Union helped us in the battle of Tornio. It is also a myth that the Finns were constantly drunk. They lost only one working day after finding a large inventory. https://youtu.be/_E9NU3mclCU
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  379. The East German security forces and the Wehrmacht soldiers were literally the same people. From their point of view it was a civil war. Also, the notorious StG 44 remained in service with the Volkspolizei until the early 1960s.
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  380.  @electricdazz  That's also true for what you said. The similarity of ideologies could be one factor that led to the German defeat. Paulus was too weak to serve, yet several other generals continued to work in East Germany. I would not claim that Finland was socialist, but the uniforms were probably designed by Kim Il-sung and Robert E. Lee. Here are some great pictures: https://youtu.be/Gjh8CWXOuUU
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  381.  @antoncouveld1734  Yes, I think it's a bit of both. I recommend: "Liberty or Death. Patrick Henry. Jocko Willink." Quite a strong statement from your closest ally. Similar ambience as Churchill vs Mannerheim in 1941. Also, Prince Wolfgang of Hesse fought against general Siilasvuo, albeit von Hessen was no longer officially a monarch.
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  382.  @antoncouveld1734  If you are interested, watch "Untold Arctic Wars" (2022). The documentary is set to reach a worldwide audience after US media giant Disney purchased the rights to the series.
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  383. Amusing that so many Russians see their own civil rights in a negative light. If Stalin woke up, it wouldn't be my problem. On the other hand, "glorification of Nazism" is a vague definition.
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  384. ​ @bjorntorlarsson  We are all youtube employees. They pretend to pay me, and I pretend to be sober.
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  385. Look at the German navy, it wasn't made for invasion. Chamberlain's hands were tied, because the Franco-Polish agreements were signed in February 1921. British attacked sparsely populated region of Finland without a declaration of war, but were destroyed. Then Churchill threatened and finally declared war on Finland, yet fled from Murmansk as Japan invaded the Asian colonies. Eventually, the Red Army occupies a Canadian mine in Petsamo, which is why Stalin pays compensation to the British.
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  386.  @nickush7512  North sea: https://youtu.be/a9eAvYLnClg British carrierborne air attack on the German positions at Kirkenes and Petsamo on the Arctic Ocean coast of Finland and German-occupied northern Norway (24 July/7 August 1941) https://codenames.info/operation/ef-ii/ "all aircraft and equipment was handed over to the Russians and in November the squadron personnel returned to the UK." http://www.bbm.org.uk/airmen/MillerAG.htm Letter from Prime Minister Churchill to Field-Marshal Mannerheim, November 29th, 1941 http://heninen.net/sopimus/kirjecm_e.htm "...news also arrived of the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor. The personnel of 151 Wing were sent on leave and the wing was disbanded" Golley, J. (1987). Hurricanes over Murmansk (1st ed.). Wellingborough: Patrick Stephens. ISBN 978-0-85059-832-2. Ottawa Citizen, Oct. 20, 1944: Russia Will Pay Canadians https://histdoc.net/history/1941-1948/petsamo1944-10-08.html
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  387.  Uncle Joe  True. Also, Stalin chose Mannerheim by removing him from the war-responsibility list.
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  388.  Uncle Joe  I used the word "elected" because these countries were at war with each other. Conquering Australia would be a different matter.
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  389.  CipiRipi00  I'm fine with the Forssa Program (1903), excluding Prohibition  of alcohol. Finland did not become a Nanny state until the 1970s.
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  390.  @RamblingRecruiter  I thought of Paulus as Lee.
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  391. That’s why the Americans couldn’t get rid of Hirohito because they were too racist
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  392. Of course, some kind of deterrent is needed, but the budget could be more reasonable.
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  393. This is just a WW1 rematch. Germany was in an awkward position between enemy countries, as was Poland. https://www.gingkoedizioni.it/the-starving-of-germany-in-1919/
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  394. Incredibly, the last cheque covering reparations for WW1 was issued by Angela Merkel in 2010. For comparison, Finland paid WW2 reparations in 1952. I don’t know if joining the anti-comintern pact would have helped, but the persecution within the German borders was scarce compared to the conquered areas.
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  395. But it would be funny if the will said, der Führer Martin Bormann. Reichspräsident Karl Dönitz
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  396.  @arras7224  Couple of thousand Soviet citizens fought in the Finnish army. They were persecuted in Finland until 1950s by the communist police, therefore deported to the USSR. However, they received a pension from Finland. I bet they never talked about the war.
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  397.  @yulusleonard985  "be atone" lol. What planet are you on? I'm afraid that Islamic-Christianity is not pro-Jewish. "to conquer" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelling_of_Mainila
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  398.  @alexalexin9491  Maybe Helmuth wanted to know how much the troops would have to endure, or he was in a hurry and couldn't get a real reading. In short, a hot day.
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  399. I blame Hitler ; ) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecuadorian–Peruvian_War
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  400. Putin's model has been copied from China: “It doesn’t matter if a cat is black or white; as long as it catches mice, it’s a good cat.” Traditions are needed since unpaid military service is absurd for the individual. Understandably, the victory day is an important event.
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  401. I would say the nation is a housing company, hence capitalism. Antifa is an urinating addict in the staircase. When a group of Benito's friends own all condominiums, it is fascism. Taken too far, they throw a gas canister into a neighboring house.
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  402. The Finnish word is actually paradise, so politicians make statements like, "paradises must be destroyed". Iltalehti, a tabloid newspaper, wrote in March: "These are the worst paradises in the world." 1. the British Virgin Islands
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  403. @The Slovenian Imperator Knight Hans Speidel : )
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  404. So, what part of that is conspiracy?
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  405. There were 168 Soviet divisions more than they estimated, according to the Great Soviet Encyclopedia. Of these, 60 were maintained by the US. I understand that their estimate of the number of tanks was also too optimistic in 1942.
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  406. By late September 1942, Wiking was in a position to launch an assault to capture the vital city of Grozny. As they reached the Terek River, the Soviet defences solidified.
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  407.  @Makapaa  It's public information. You don't have to research much when you find that the number of Finnish KIAs is exaggerated. There are e.g. women who died of diseases in Central Finland, people died of german mines in the 1950s, not to mention all non-Germans are counted as Finns. Of course, still a lot of fallen.
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  408. Actually, the Dutch were one of the largest group of foreign nationalities in the Waffen-SS, before they began accepting other groups.
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  409.  @QuizmasterLaw  Don't generalize. Italy has always been below France in suicide.
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  410.  @MrCarpelan  Says a nazi snowflake : ) https://www.sotapolku.fi/henkilot/carpelan_lars-erik-bertelsson_19.12.1913_helsinki/
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  411. "more likely to survive" They won't survive. A traitor's paycheck is death!...was death, until capital punishment was abolished in 1972. https://youtu.be/9sLVFxn2Jek Disclaimer: No one shall be sentenced to death, tortured or otherwise treated in a manner violating human dignity.
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  412.  @TheImperatorKnight  Un-ironic Happy Holidays! 👍 https://youtu.be/QAzADxHO2kY
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  413. McCollum memo
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  414. I watched an interview of a Finnish jäger, who fought in Ukraine 2022. He said, the Russians shot first to which he responded by shooting them. It was self-defense.
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  415.  @standupaddict94  Well, actually they did collapse. See decolonization. For me, republicanism is an obvious and natural step forward. Motivations for abolition included anti-class views. Also, the "liberators" of South America were influenced by European liberalism. Sure, things can get out of hand too far into socialism, but this did not occur in Western Europe until the 1970s.
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  416.  @handle1603  Not even Khrushchev would have allowed this rubbish. You just choose to ignore nonwhite dictators in your bottomless envy and anger.
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  417. At least according to Democrats, Trump has been bought
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  418. Lenin bitterly called the settlement “that abyss of defeat, dismemberment, enslavement and humiliation.”
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  419.  @vaclav_fejt  Will is the most important, it's the same everywhere. In Russia, university students have been exempted. They don’t want people asking awkward questions.
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  420. 2021 United States Capitol attack was like a quiet weekend in Paris. 5 deaths (1 from gunshot, 1 from drug overdose, 3 from natural causes). Estonians often speak good Finnish, so it is quite difficult to identify them. To my recollection, about 50,000 Estonians live in Finland.
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  421. Certainly as a Union they were nearing an end and the Allies' food aid was crucial. If you've ever seen documentaries about the Nenets people, you may find that survival is possible in Siberia, although life as a nomadic hunter is difficult. In ancient times, the elderly could be euthanized if they were a burden on the tribe. I do not believe that they were as closely monitored by the authorities as some nations in more populated areas.
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  422.  @rrobb9853  Don't be nervous, everyone knows the facts. "The Great Patriotic War" is a pretty carefully researched topic. https://www.bitchute.com/video/Yn19CvvH4m46/
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  423.  @michaelkovacic2608  However, now a different country for a reason. IMO the conscription system fits Austria like a glove and is the best guarantee for all future challenges.
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  424. Adolf "map guru" Heusinger. Who was Hitler? Oh, I remember that mustache man.
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  425. The penal Battalion led by killer, jaeger, lieutenant colonel Nikke Pärmi is also narrated on YouTube. Too bad it doesn't have subtitles. Even Pärmi himself was previously convicted of a manslaughter by knife, although he was later rehabilitated. His men were treated quite cruelly. About 10% escaped, but the rest of them were top notch. They were murderers after all. One newly arrived man was convicted of murder. Nikke said, "well, well, that's a good recommendation. Professionals are needed in war."
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  426. ​​ @TheImperatorKnight  I have a feeling it went the other way. The KGB infiltrated the Lutheran Church. Some churches don't vote on the bible, therefore they have no practical difference from, for example, Swiss Christians. Altruism comes from femininity, not Christianity.
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  427. I think these Napoleon references are ridiculous, because von Bennigsen and Wittgenstein were generals of the Russian army in 1812. Mannerheim also commanded a Russian division under Brusilov in 1916. My point is that the Napoleonic era was a completely different political situation.
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  428. Ohne dich - Stalingrad, in a nutshell. Free will is an illusion
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  429. Says, "red man bad", yet literally gives shiploads of tanks and planes to the Communists. That battle was lost a long time ago in continental Europe. All that remains is a question, do you support mixed economies or full communism? The last time Finland had less than 20% taxation was in the 1930s. Trying to maintain a non-Marxist system is, ultimately, tilting at windmills.
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  430.  @mabussubam512  As the events are known, only statistics can be debated. I don't think the Soviets would attack in a 1: 1 situation. This book has at least the most important points, add a map (available online) and improvise the rest. Finland at War: The Continuation and Lapland Wars 1941–45 https://books.google.fi/books?id=qL6gCwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA336&ots=BTNQGcO6nF&dq=Battle%20of%20Tali-Ihantala%20maps&hl=fi&pg=PA228#v=onepage&q=Battle%20of%20Tali-Ihantala%20maps&f=false Some maps: https://jput.fi/T_I_torjuntavoitto.htm
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  431.  @TheImperatorKnight  However, it is certain that the evangelical influence is strongest in the Southern United States. I’m just trying to understand why they didn’t switch sides. At the first free elections held in Austria (1945), the Christian Democrats won with 49.8 percent of the vote and an absolute majority of seats in the legislature. Btw. The Devil All the Time (2020) is an interesting movie, at times a bit gloomy. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt7395114/
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  432.  @johnlavers3970  Maybe, but you are a Holocaust denier
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  433. You must take anything Mannerheim says with a grain of salt. His ideological roots lay in the Tsarist-era conservatism.
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  434.  @ragganyc  People who have never lived in a communist country admire communism. People who have lived in North Korea admire America. Unfortunately, that's how it goes.
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  435. They could have left at the right time. Just visit, not stay, as the song says: https://youtu.be/rlORfFM0S3s
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  436. I recommend "Satunnaista sotilashistoriaa" subtitled in English. The bombing of Leningrad by the Finnish Air Force. Animation says more than a thousand words. Mannerheim specifically banned the bombing of unlit fields to prevent civilian casualties On top of that, it's monetized and made by an UN veteran.
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  437.  @wesjanson6979  Do you realize that you justified roasting toddlers because Asians dispatched Asians in another country. Not that I would complain. In reality, combat or even policing is not hundred percent sanitary.
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  438.  @guidobolke5618  I don't guarantee that tabloid journalists are honest, but according to this article SS-Unterscharführer (Junior section leader) Kähärä denies the concept of Nordic race. Ethnic Finns were not considered Germanic, which is of course true. On the other hand, later on, they were fierce fighters and received praise from German commanders. No genealogy was asked from any rank below that of a commissioned officer. Minors were admitted with the consent of their parents. In this case, he had forged the papers. 16yo SS-Unterscharführer (Junior section leader) Aarne Kähärä, now 95yo. https://www.iltalehti.fi/kotimaa/a/899e8759-e5bd-4685-99de-23e6fd1875f1 Memorial cross https://tammenlehva.fi/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/03/SS-vapaaehtoisten_mr-1.png
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  439. The USSR HAD unlimited manpower. RIP.
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  440. Churchill doesn’t have a nuclear bomb, so it’s purely American thing.
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  441.  @uschurch  O tempora, o mores! Would this channel be deleted, if he said that Biafra's famine was caused by Biafra's socialism? I wonder.
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  442. ​ @TheImperatorKnight  Hi. Have you made a video or could you explain the Bretton Woods system? Is it a coincidence that many western countries went crazy socialist in the 1970s?
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  443. What? How old are you?
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  444.  @thomasengel7062  No offense, but you seem to have trouble typing. God bless you. I understand your question is why Germany fought. I think the answer is they never stopped. Human nature is like that.
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  445.  Hydroginn1  In my opinion the USSR achieved communism, when they implemented the collectivization of its agricultural sector. At least the Mensheviks and the Nazis cooperated temporarily, even though they did not achieve decollectivization.
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  446.  @ThomasAllen90  To my understanding, just a couple of decades ago, most of Lower Burma was not industrialized. So the real question is whether you own your (home) farm or not. The Mensheviks did not have the power and will to collectivize as much as the Bolsheviks did in Soviet Russia.
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  447. Monday wake up call..lol..Norway (and Denmark) was an exception, even though it was officially an enemy. Germans thought they were a better breed. In the Finnish Karelia almost 100% of the affected population chose to relocate. Life in the Soviet Union did not seem tempting. According to the general perception, the settling of the immigrants succeeded well in Finland, albeit there was tension between Christian sects. In particular, the arrival of Orthodox people caused unrest among the Lutherans. https://lyricstranslate.com/en/evakon-laulu-song-evacuee.html
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  448. I’m pretty sure they’re not immortal vampires. Those rules don't apply to Spain, Denmark and Finland.
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  449.  @HavanneZ  Well, anti-partisan operation in East Karelia is quite boring. After more than a month of fighting, 120 Soviet partisans out of 638 returned from the expedition.
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  450.  @HavanneZ  I am not opposed to the EU, but technically Finland is not an independent state. Especially considering the Russian Civil War, it can be argued that Finland cannot exist without Gustaf Mannerheim.
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  451. Censorship is never limited to one case. Eventually, even America’s name needs to be changed, for example to Wakanda.
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  452. Nazi studies on some nations were fairly accurate given that no genetic tests were available. It's because most people don't give their children to strangers, therefore political opinions are passed on from one generation to the next. However, early Menshevism meant low taxation with some public education and a shorter working day on Saturdays. The Nordic countries were virtually nightwatchman states during this period. Finland had low taxation until the 1960s, after which the country was practically a National Socialist dictatorship. Former Waffen-SS soldier served as Minister of Defence. At the same time, criticism of the Soviet Union was non-existent in the mass media (until the 1980s). Since 25 March 2001, all five states have also been within the Schengen Area. Although Finland's law requires transgender people to be sterilized, in practice forced sterilization has been abandoned since the 1970s. Subsequently, promoting healthy lifestyles and underlining the ideas of individual freedom and responsibility for one’s health became key concepts in the health policy discourse of the 1980s and especially after the severe economic crisis of the 1990s.
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  453. Steiner: You're gonna be alright? Drunk Göring: I'm all right now. Wtf? Leave me alone.
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  454.  @TheIfifi  On the contrary, the Germans are very unpatriotic. https://brilliantmaps.com/europe-fight-war/
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  455. True, but even democratic socialism can go too far. It seems to me (based on polls) that the majority longs for a period of social conservatism and direct democracy, which the SDP also supported until 1952. Apart from agriculture, Finland had a free trade agreement with both the eastern bloc and the EEC since the 1970s. Interestingly, due to the virus, the Socialists are now pursuing rather conservative policies against their ideology.
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  456.  Ornate Orator  I've been happy with MasterCard's contactless payment. So far, the euro area has experienced low inflation. Should the situation change, I would switch to other currencies.
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  457.  Stephen A. Smith  "No worries. I am myself a mass murderer." Then shoots the German and a toddler.
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  458.  trainbomb  Actually Hitler suggested cooperation, but the Poles refused. The dispute already dates back to WW1. Note that Königsberg is also ethnically cleansed of Germans, now less than one percent of the population.
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  459.  trainbomb It was called The Polish Corridor https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Corridor
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  460.  trainbomb  WW2 Poles. What have you smoked?
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  461. While the EU map is not entirely irrelevant, it's not a military alliance. Members are allowed to close internal borders. Now that I checked, the UK is one of only seven European allies to meet the NATO target of spending of at least two per cent of GDP on defence. They would support Germany in the case of a foreign invasion. However, France is the largest force in Western Europe.
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  462. Pretty much, all 410,000 citizens got a new home already during the war. Among them was Martti Ahtisaari. Then there were also thousands of immigrants and deportees who survived the purges. They formed a battalion and clashed with the "whites" in 1941. Otto Wille Kuusinen has a statue near Cosmos Petrozavodsk Hotel.
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  463. Extramarital relationship was taboo especially in such cases where the child's father was a Russian prisoner https://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/art-2000005604374.html
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  464.  @hitznkoff4285  Then there are also cases where the Soviets themselves executed "traitors". For example, major general Kirpichnikov was sent back to home in October 1944, but he was charged with treason and sentenced to death by the USSR Military Collegium.
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  465.  @ernstwiltmann6  Somewhat true for older officers, but the conscripts were mostly socialists and they were born in the 1920s, after the civil war. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-wing_uprisings_against_the_Bolsheviks Although some POWs (and even visitors) were shot after the war, I'm not so sure about those numbers. Soldiers buried elsewhere may have been counted as POWs.
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  466. Is that brandy or coke glass? https://vuosaarilehti.fi/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Marski-75v.jpg Jäger shot? https://images.cdn.yle.fi/image/upload//w_1198,h_839,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto:eco/13-3-10361158.jpg
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  467. To my understanding, they bought the fancy knives with their own currency and kept them after the war. State property is usually reduced, yet durable.
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  468. Alcohol is still served at the Italian Army breakfast. It's a “shot” of 40% brandy-like liquor.
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  469.  @TheWersum  Slavs etc born in the Soviet Union were paid lower wages, so not quite a final solution. The final solution was for the Red Army POWs, but it was not completed.
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  470. @slovene ball *1944...In practice, the Continuation War ended on September 5, 1944, even though it had not yet been officially signed. Operation Tanne Ost led to Finnish forces opening fire at 00:55 on 15 September 1944.
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  471. The Unknown Soldier (1955) is still a masterpiece. A fast-paced theater-style play featuring actual footage of the war, brutal humor and soundtrack by Sibelius. Admittedly, it only tells the story of a single machine gun company (IR 8 / 1st Battalion). https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0048752/
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  472. I find it a bit harsh to claim that Jews chose Judaism instead of being Jews by birth. Among the officers in particular, there were only a few individuals with a Jewish background. Virtually all stateless nations were persecuted on both sides.
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  473. However, I think the Hiroshima bombing can be skipped and cover the Tokyo bombing. Times were brutal back then. https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-war-crimes-the-march-1945-firebombing-of-tokyo-americas-great-tokyo-air-raid/5435775
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  474.  @brunobacelli5389  Corporatism is just a form of collective bargaining. It produces a high standard of living, as long as no party is superior to the others. Perhaps because of America's unbalanced situation, corporatism has become a curse word that has no basis in reality. In this context, I would say Franco was probably a biased judge.
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  475.  @Gobsmacked52  What is your opinion of Nazi Zombies in Canada / Conscription Crisis of 1944? Was the European front unnecessary? Granted, Helsinki was fortunately saved from occupation due to the run to Berlin.
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  476.  @dondajulah4168  Amen. Adolf Heusinger was for all intents and purposes a clone of Hitler. He was literally standing next to Hitler when the bomb exploded.
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  477.  @jannowak711  Wehrmacht practically rebuilt Europe after the war. When people say Trump or whoever is a Nazi, they acknowledge that the modern Nazi regime is actually quite functional.
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  478.  @simplicius11  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirtschaftswunder
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  479. The North Korean logistics are amazing. Seriously, one of my schoolmates visited there.
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  480.  @sergeontheloose  Google who was the best german general of ww2
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  481.  Mock Harris  Ronald Reagan served in the stateside. I'm not arguing that Germany wasn't aggressive by default, but it's absolutely possible to avoid the whole conflict. Not to mention Ireland, which was persecuted by both alliances. The same goes for Germany, which could have improved its relations with the United States.
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  482. Today, even taking a couple of million prisoners is a German "failure". At least the Finnish Wikipedia is honest and says, Axis tactical victory..
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  483. Varies by person, but 0.5l was too much in that situation. Also imagine impurities when they had no standards. Finns received much less, usually only couple shots and cigarettes
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  484.  @shelonnikgrumantov5061  Of a stupid head the whole body has to suffer
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  485.  @GeneralBurkhalter1  The Nazis are socialists. Period. I don’t think it should even be controversial.
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  486. In one of the intercepted calls, a Russian soldier mentioned political officers. Made me think how was the Ministry of Propaganda organized in nazi-Germany. How many men were at the frontline?
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  487.  @johnburns4017  Give Zelensky booze and cigars for 25 years and you get 69yo Churchill. I think they would look identical.
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  488. "Till minne om de 196 norske frivillig som falt i fortsettelseskrigen 1941-1944" https://rovaniemi.rotary.fi/@Bin/239795/Norjalaismuistomerkin taulu.jpeg
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  489. Why would they do that? They would celebrate Day of Victory in the Great Fatherland Liberation War and Birthday of Hitler and the birth of Hitler's mother.
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  490. Without looking deeper into the matter. I think you need about three times more troops than the defender, for a breakthrough. Although the Germans were experiencing fatigue, the problem of non- or mis-firing soldiers has probably been exaggerated. Of course, the Soviet superiority was greater during the Winter War. It is worth remembering that 15 sovereign states emerged and re-emerged from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in its breakup.
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  491. Pan-Celticism? Unlike Mussolini, Mosley seems to be an isolationist. Urho Kekkonen supported Nordic cooperation, even though he wasn't Scandinavian.
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  492. Sounds like a tax haven compared to Finland. I am considering moving because I am too old for the army. Russia will attack Finland in May.
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  493.  @andybrennand1576  High school education was very rare in the early 20th century. Unlike Hitler, Heinrich Himmler was an officer candidate.
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  494. There was no failure in the South. They went there and came back. A tank division does not mean that every man sits in a tank. At least the 5th SS Panzer Division tried to seize the oil wells in Grozny.
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  495. That is a good question. Both sides bombed on neutral countries, but they are safest. Then, the West, Germany, the USSR, Baltic nations and lastly Poland. For a German, likelyhood to survive Stalingrad without being taken as prisoner, is slim to none. Last recorded flight out of the Stalingrad encirclement left the emergency airfield of Stalingradskaya on the morning of 23rd January 1943 with nine wounded soldiers on board.
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  496.  @artiombeknazaryan7542  Lauri Pekuri is one of my favorite survivors. He was shot down by a Soviet Hawker Hurricane. Pekuri flew Brewster Buffalo, Messerschmitt Bf 109G-2 and MiG-21, and received training in the Soviet Union. https://youtu.be/fmqhGZnAnRw
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  497. Why even fight if you surrender in less than a week? Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands refused to become a German ally whatever the circumstances
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  498.  @captainsponge7825  That is not a justification but one of the reasons. Czechoslovakia was formed from territories of Hungary and Austria. The central proponents of the European Civil War were originally based at the history department of the London School of Economics. I know Europe is not a country, but Schengen is now a core part of EU law.They have joint defense and border control, with the exception of a different currency in Poland.
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  499.  @hjalmar4565  I agree, El Alamein has nothing to do with Germany. It's a town in North Africa.
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  500. Call me old fashioned, but Mikhail Gorbachev pretty much acknowledged that the Soviet Union was an aggressor. It's enough for me.
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  501. The EU has a population of 447 million. Could you narrow down a bit.
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  502. To be honest, autarky is the reason Churchill HAD to start a war. Living on an island is often peaceful but limited. Germany's World War I Debt Was So Crushing It Took 92 Years to Pay Off https://www.history.com/news/germany-world-war-i-debt-treaty-versailles
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  503.  @mrak9856  Red terror martyrs' museum https://youtu.be/gnQ7-JNcRR4
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  504. I don't think so. Ukraine is too big to be controlled. Their goal is to create a neutral state, leaning on Russia. Possible outcomes: A. Russia will gain political leverage in the internal affairs of Ukraine B. Putin is ousted C. Russia's withdrawal without achieving its goals
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  505.  @fiddlersgreen2433  What movie did you watch? There were wounded soldiers in the first scene.
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  506.  Dwarov 1  Nope. Glantz's numbers are similar. If Finns are to be blamed for the events in Leningrad, then losses must also be accepted. If you add civilians, a total of 1 + 1 = 2 million people died because the Karelians refused to collectivize their farms.
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  507.  Dwarov 1  It's unlikely that the Soviet leader gives such a detailed breakdown of nationalities. There were also Finns in North Ossetia and Austrian soldiers in Rovaniemi. Khrushchev was well aware of the situation. The Winter War was/is known as Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940.
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  508.  Dwarov 1  That would explain why they couldn't break through in 1944. https://images.alko.fi/images/cs_srgb,f_auto,t_large/cdn/944668/jaloviina-tahdeton.jpg
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  509.  Dwarov 1  Petsamo, which was the German front responsibility, was surrendered by political decision. Elsewhere, the border fence is at the same location as in 1940. The actual fighting ended far beyond Operation Barbarossa's starting point.
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  510.  Dwarov 1  I wouldn't call that the decisive breakthrough, in September 1944. https://i.pinimg.com/474x/ce/8b/2d/ce8b2dc8e554ddab50c9f300955aa29d.jpg 1743 and 2020 http://rauha.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/turku.png 1940 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Moskovan_rauha.png
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  511.  Dwarov 1  Finland lost exactly 95k KIA 1939-45 including Nordic volunteers and the war against Germany. Glantz has indeed counted all Germans as Finnish and fallen. Less than 30k of Germans died, mostly in Soviet Karelia.
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  512.  Dwarov 1  Here is a list of all the KIAs. In total almost 95,000. https://youtu.be/J2TfMJ_utnE
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  513.  Dwarov 1  They couldn't record the discussion in Moscow as with Hitler, but I trust more on two Finnish generals than on a random and anonymous denialist.
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  514.  Dwarov 1  Do you even know what year it was?
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  515.  Dwarov 1  6 April 1948. That's enough, you are an idiot.
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  516.  Dwarov 1  Finns were never forced to dance like in North Korea. This was filmed during the Battle of the Bulge. Helsinki, the Last Day of 1944 / January 1st -45 https://youtu.be/tT41pOtcmoY
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  517.  @omanvictory4011  However, they sent draft dodgers back to the Eastern Front, and later to the Gulag
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  518.  @roflol100  I would say socialist policies are prone to corruption, which can lead to bloodshed. I mean the people must have a Japanese mentality, otherwise it is doomed.
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  519.  @Mousoroque  Afghanistan attacked?
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  520.  teslagod2003  Sure it's always a mistake to get involved in the Balkans, but there was no conscription in Finland and it was a relatively prosperous time from 1869 onwards.
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  521.  @jaspercorbyn8678  Finnish Guards' Rifle Battalion (1829-1905) was the only Finnish unit of the Russian Imperial Guard. In theory, the Finns could have been forcibly taken to war, but fortunately this was not the case. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Serbia In addition, my home town was White from the beginning, so there was no civil war in this area.
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  522.  mike mcmike  Old news magazines and especially advertisements tell about economic life. There were no advertising lights in Moscow. On the other hand, countries with the most entrepreneurs are agrarian societies.
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  523.  @Paciat  "Anthony Garforth Miller was born in Calcutta in 1912....The squadron embarked on HMS Argus on 12th August for Russia and flew off on 6th September to the airfield at Vaenga, near Murmansk." http://www.bbm.org.uk/airmen/MillerAG.htm
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  524.  @Paciat  "It's called appeasement" It's called Ireland. You are just a Keyboard Warrior.
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  525.  Jeff Smith  AMEN BROTHER! 😁
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  526. Amen. I couldn’t care less about military history. There has been a lot of water under the bridge since the 1940s.
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  527. I hope the next video (after Stalingrad) is "Krasnaya armiboo" romancers on whatever, otherwise this video is pure propaganda.
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  528. All the participants did something right and wrong, even democratic (and Protestant) countries such as Finland and the UK. I think "The European Civil War" concept is not a complete misconception. Of course, totalitarian countries are most backward even in modern times.
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  529. They knew the situation, but options were: fighting, imprisonment in Stalin's Soviet Union, or the death sentence. Sweden also extradited about 3,000 German soldiers. The Battle of Tornio (October 1–8, 1944): https://youtu.be/NkNDXirXyRs
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  530.  @Dilley_G45  I’m just gonna copy a comment by alex i: "Once again military forces in that era still believing in the fallacy that terror bombing of civilians was superior to other targers (communications etc.). Thanks to Douhet the Dummy." McNamara: "We failed to draw Congress and the American people into a full and frank discussion and debate of the pros and cons of a large-scale military involvement … before we initiated the action." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fog_of_War That being said, I would classify the Vietnam War as an unnecessary victory for the US.
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  531.  @fatherelijahcal9620  Axis' combined production will never exceed that of the United States alone. China and the USSR are just extras. In this scenario, India and South Africa from the BRICS countries will not participate, but others will. Although Brazil had supported the Triple Entente in WW1, people started to protest against neutrality in 1942, after U-507 alone sank five Brazilian vessels in two days. Also, Mexico became an active belligerent for the same reason. There is a lot of cannon fodder potential.
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  532. Probably AA hit every time they fired at the flock.
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  533. Einstein had renounced his citizenship five years earlier in 1933. It's an exaggeration to claim everything as pseudoscience. Just like Russia will not become South Sudan in just five years. Not to mention, the British use a pagan calendar. Augustus introduced a number of moral and political reforms in order to revive traditional Roman religion in the state.
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  534. Monty's dog Rommel
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  535. I don’t know what was Judith Stein’s primary source, but I am certainly not going to take this lying down. Obviously, people with disabilities were already segregated in the Wehrmacht etc, from which volunteers were admitted to the SS basic training. In addition, it's questionable to claim, for example, paratroopers as poor quality due to heavy losses.
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  536.  @ProphetFear  If East Germany had existed during the Hitler era, would it have been treated better than the Slavs? Perhaps. However, I do not see as a sign of civilization that Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, etc. were subjugated to the self-proclaimed emperor Stalin. Literally slaves. https://youtu.be/IX2xgXm4V50
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  537.  @abeaboud272  Their videos are intended to excite the greatest number of viewers. Some German channels present their topics in a boring and old school way just by listing events, which can be refreshing at times.
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  538.  @Szpareq  We all have our preferences. Doug Rivers, the chief scientist at YouGov, said: “Americans tend to think that countries populated by people of their own race are allies of the United States..." https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/02/03/upshot/which-country-do-americans-like-most-for-republicans-its-australia.html
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  539.  @zxbzxbzxb1  I just noticed new information, at least for me, that the Soviets kidnapped over 200 Finnish civilians and border guards in the summer of 1940. It reflects how paranoid the political climate was at that time. Mortality rate was over 50% and the last man returned in 1959.
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  540.  @n00btotale  It's pretty simple. Companies are taxed by the state and conscripts go to military service.
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  541.  @vadimpm1290  People act like the invasion of Normandy was purely a business decision of a corporation, which paints a rather bleak picture of the US military. https://tinyurl.com/wnbd3fl
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  542. Closer to 250,000. Most of the victims were foreigners.
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  543. You know the "Stalin's organ" was actually manufactured by the Studebaker Corporation 😁
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  544.  @nicholasconder4703  It's worth remembering that the Jews fought alongside Germany in WW1.
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  545. This suits me, because it makes British Indian Army plain British. Pakistani activists estimate that there are about 1,000 “honor” killings every year.
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  546.  @michaelkovacic2608  I'd say that no elder was qualified, except in politics. Ernst Schacht was the best Soviet general.
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  547.  @SAarumDoK  I think he meant Semyon Budyonny was not the sharpest pencil in the cup. He was frequently commemorated for his bravery in many Soviet songs.
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  548.  @dragosstanciu9866  Too many ifs. You would probably lose if Finland supported the USSR in 1945. Peak strength in Korea: -1.4 million Chinese -14,000 Britons That actually sounds like a nightmare.
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  549.  @0donny  I couldn't imagine queuing to get to Mozambique. Although people voted with their feet, perhaps East Germany was the only livable communist country. Or maybe on some isolated island belonging to Cuba.
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  550.  @shorewall  When North Korea fires a rocket to Los Angeles to "save" millions of people, you will understand how racist you actually are.
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  551.  @AM-cm2kj  Well, It wouldn’t be shown on CNN, if people applauded. Supposedly saving lives is the racist part. Maybe some surgical bombing could save people.
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  552.  @Kalletheswede  Make sense on the west coast of Finland. I'm satisfied with my native tongue even more than English, now in my forties.
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  553.  @_Abjuranax_  However, the traditional method requires air superiority. I think the nuclear bomb is a game changer for small countries.
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  554. Mercenaries employed by oil companies in crisis areas
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  555.  @AdamMann3D  Ancient aliens : ) Using a statistical technique called Bayesian inference, the researchers found evidence of what they call a "third introgression" – a 'ghost' archaic population that modern humans interbred with during the African exodus. [...] As modern humans forged this path into the landmass of Eurasia, they forged some other things too – breeding with ancient and extinct hominids from other species. https://www.sciencealert.com/artificial-intelligence-identifies-unknown-ghost-ancestor-in-the-human-genome
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  556. Almost half a million soldiers were in the Finnish army, but only about 6000 Danes on the eastern front and 100 in Finland. Sure enough, they achieved a tactical victory in the final battle in Ilomantsi. Even though the Danes were skillful fighters, they were not fully committed.
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  557.  @jamestheotherone742  I think that the same result can be achieved in many ways. Corruption is capitalism and therefore works better than total state control. However, socialism works as long as the people can understand the rules. Therefore, the rules must be designed according to the average national IQ. Stalin took socialism too far, as we can see today in North Korea.
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  558. They could have encircled the Germans fleeing from Finland. Churchill mentioned the matter in Tehran, and later also the Finnish HQ.
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  559. Finland alone has a larger area than the whole of Yugoslavia, but the total population is somewhere between Serbia and Croatia. In addition, neutral Sweden was a buffer, which may explain the absence of mutual schism among the Nordic countries. In other words, they need more lebensraum : )
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  560.  @fabiofaria4243  Yeah, It's truly remarkable how the Nordic countries are like separate Lego bricks. I guess, the Swedes never recovered from the war of 1809 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandels_(beer)
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  561. Göring never used weapons of mass destruction indiscriminately. At least here in Finland, WW2 was child's play compared to Ukraine. Currently, about 3 million refugees
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  562. Well said. War crime is a very feminist concept. Especially, ex post facto laws.If the woman had really been attacked, she would go to see a doctor. Basically, poison gas became a "criminal weapon" when Churchill stopped using it. Insecticide, rocket and fire bomb are all the same thing to me.
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  563.  @TheImperatorKnight  Rudolf and James jumped off the bridge together. Natalia was already in the water holding a baby. Rudolf hits Natalia, saves the baby and climbs up. Sam yells, "pervert!" then shoots Rudolf. Natalia floats away face down and James is drowning. Sam saves him, but James suffers a brain injury.
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  564.  @shrose68  Both were multicultural empires, but I understand the Nazis were more tolerant of private land ownership, thus the lesser of two evils. Liechtenstein remained neutral, while family treasures from dynastic lands and possessions in Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia were taken to Liechtenstein for safekeeping. At the close of the conflict,  Czechoslovakia and Poland nationalized the entirety of the Liechtenstein dynasty's properties in those three regions.  However, North Korea implements "pure" National Socialism inspired by Stalin. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cleanest_Race
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  565.  @benholroyd5221  https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com.au/australian-recession-coronavirus-economists-bushfires-2020-3/amp
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  566.  @scottsorenson1859  It would be difficult to choose which army to join with current information, if there were only these two options.
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  567.  @MarshallJukov  It's nice that the Russian authorities are taking communism seriously. NYT: "Russia Sentences Anti-Fascists on Bogus Terror Charges, Critics Say"
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  568.  @MarshallJukov  Exactly, built by the Russians. What did you find on the moon? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_inequality-adjusted_HDI#List
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  569.  @MarshallJukov  I have nothing against it, if you turn the list upside down and move to Africa.
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  570.  @MarshallJukov  Finland is the bedrock. Soviet Union was an early modern political union.
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  571.  @MarshallJukov  Personally, no one in my family died in 1941-45. This municipality was not even bombed in WW II, and we had a Russian prisoner doing farm work. Even during the Civil War, this place was never occupied by the Reds, so the last war was actually in 1809.
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  572.  @MarshallJukov  A recession is not a famine. Of course, some people caused problems for themselves. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arvo_Tuominen 'only nation that has more "ridiculous" victories than Finland is Ukraine' 44th Kievan Sniper Division https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/two-soviet-infantrymen-frozen-death-foxhole-finland-1940/
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  573.  @MarshallJukov  You don't even know who fought in WW2. You must be 12 years old.
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  574.  @Grondorn  In a way, Italy fought longer and better than Finland, if we count the days after the enemy is within the borders.
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  575. We have a draft twice a year. Mobilization is a different matter. The Finnish army was called for additional training, when the USSR made territorial claims in early October 1939.
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  576. @wakenbaker-uk According to Wikipedia: United Nations, Allied, Royal Italian and Italian Resistance victory.
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  577. If Stalin's Communist Party was not racist, they must have had a lot of talented and hardworking Germans.
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  578.  @heikkisallinen9012  Life in a gypsy camp.
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  579. Rules are rules. I would not go there as a civilian. "The Thai government needs to be absolutely clear about its rules on using force and ensuring that soldiers and police on the streets strictly follow those rules,"  https://www.hrw.org/news/2010/05/15/thailand-revoke-live-fire-zones-bangkok 2018–19 Gaza border protests https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_Gaza_border_protests
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  580.  @pietersteenkamp5241  Frankly, this genocide would happen again without nuclear deterrent of mutual assured destruction (MAD). Rather naive are those who do not believe in compulsory military service.
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  581. SS-captain Jouko Kauko Itälä was a member of the board of Cederroth, which was acquired by Orkla care. Jouko did not switch sides during WW2 (un)like the vast majority of Finns, therefore he served a short prison sentence in both Norway and Finland. Presumably, Jouko spoke Swedish despite his Finnish name. Cederroth was a Swedish company. Now that I've become aware of it, I've noticed the Orkla brand in, among other things, multivitamins and shampoos. Not to be confused with his brother Jaakko Itälä, who was a liberal MP in Finland.
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  582. I have news for you. Dental hygienist doesn't enjoy her work.
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  583. Obviously, they all routinely withheld information for “public safety”. UK was not even a democracy. USA was a flawed democracy. This may come as a shock, but the flag-raising on Iwo Jima Island was staged.
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  584. I feel like he’s just doing business or he’s been gullible. I was a bit surprised that his latest comments on Ukraine were pro-Western.
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  585. Democrats are latino, gun nuts and anarchists. Hitler wanted law and order.
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  586. That's not hindsight, but alt-history
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  587.  @melrakan  This video is about the Finnish front and they died there. Egon Moses Rosenthal was born in 1924. He entered the service at/about the same time as the SS men were repatriated in 1943.
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  588.  @g-rexsaurus794  How do you survive traffic lights?
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  589. It doesn't matter to me what terminology is used as long as the peoples right to self-determination is recognized, due to historical ties, heritage, language and religion.
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  590.  @halflifeapc8777  .."decisively militarily defeated" Not exactly a fate of Poland. Every step to the northwest is a withdrawal from Berlin. That's why, the outcome is not seen as a victory, but a miracle and a lottery win.
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  591.  @johnburns4017  Where is their goal exactly? Did they achieve it?
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  592.  @johnburns4017  However, majority opinion has always been very anti-Russian, even racist. https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Рюсся Finlandization is a pejorative term for Kekkonen's foreign policy invented by right-wingers. Paavo Lipponen was a Stasi collaborator. Kekkonen was not. He was clearly a centrist politician. Although it's rumored that Kekkonen took uppers in Yugoslavia (pervitin?) and couldn't stop talking, it happened after The Tito–Stalin Split. No harm done: https://youtu.be/BsfKj6bb-Pk
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  593.  @ВячеславСкопюк  And they do live under Finnish rule. Citizens of the former Soviet Union are the largest group of foreigners. And you don't even have to do military service ; )
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  594. Note that US went to Afghanistan assuming there are no cultural differences. I thought pointless trying to fix something that is not broken.
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  595. Why not in Sweden?
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  596.  @brucetucker4847  Google Kalervo Kurkiala. He was Adolf Eichmann of Sweden and Finland.
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  597. Soldiers are born every year. Germany would have been capable of striking already in 1946 without the nuclear deterrent. The USSR was starving. They were unable to capture Bonn, Copenhagen, Rome, Manila, Tokyo and Paris. A small part of Berlin is a pretty trivial conquest. The production gap was greater than today and it still exists.
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  598. That's normal given the culture of that era..But Imagine Lauri Törni fought in 1939-44 and then joined the Nazis in January 1945. He surrendered while wearing an SS uniform and asked permission to join the US Army, which of course was not granted until many years later.
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  599.  @stephen1137  He only practiced in October-December 1944, so his morale began to suffer.
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  600. Europe would be identical, if the Nazis had succeeded. They would have elected Vladimir Putin as their leader.
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  601. Superior and immortal are two different things.
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  602. Many people confuse Call duty world at war with the movie https://youtu.be/9V_eQwJ7ZhQ
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  603. How does that differ from Nazi theories? Slavic countries such as Slovakia, Croatia and Bulgaria were involved right from the start. Not to mention the Molotov-Ribbentrop agreement.
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  604.  @amalgama2000  Selective breeding is not rocket science. Sterilization and abortion is still practiced on a small scale, if the health of mother is at risk. They were pretty much right considering the DNA was discovered in 1953.
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  605. I would like to suggest a profile episode about anyone mentioned by Hitler’s will, unless they are presented in reverse order. Then lesser-known Brigadier general of Gestapo Franz Josef Huber, protected by the US.
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  606. A different breed that is used to eating pitaya
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  607. I'm certainly going to complain, when Russia launches rockets into my apartment in Finland.
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  608.  @andrewblake2254  I meant 22yo Irma Grese was sentenced to death. Then Stalin got nukes, so these HIAG men were excavated from their caves to oppose the East German generals arrested in Stalingrad.
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  609. “Great man. Maybe he (Steiner) had tasted a bit cognac since he didn't seem to be freezing, ” private Pöntinen wrote.
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  610. Noting how racist the USA was in 1917, Woodrow Wilson from Georgia stabbed Germany in the face. Maybe Germany was too liberal for him?
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  611. Friedrich Paulus and Mengistu Haile Mariam, like two peas in a pod
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  612.  @SmotritelMayaka29  You could simply look at other wars (List of wars involving Soviet Russia), but it doesn’t fit the anti-German narrative.
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  613.  @SmotritelMayaka29  Operation EF (the Raid on Kirkenes and Petsamo) was executed by Lend-Lease aircrafts in July 1941, hence months before the declaration of war. Soviet pilots and insignia in October and November 1941. Pretty fast in my opinion.
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  614. You should have dropped it in 1917, when Einstein lived in Berlin
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  615. I don’t see how that conflicts with asiatic herds. Certainly, even within the USSR crime was rampant since they transferred resources into new territories. Not to mention there is no equal pay anywhere on this planet. What annoys me is enacting laws out of thin air like a crazy person.
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  616. "The average age of the Finnish male patients was 70 and all their infections were found to originate in the Russian border town of Svetogorsk" https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/eastern_finland_seniors_contracting_hiv_in_russia_despite_information_campaigns/10684764
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  617.  @robfl100  That is the neo-Nazi narrative. There was no revenge, just soviets having lower standards.
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  618. Slavoj Žižek, a Slovenian marxist, said, "here in the west". As Slovenia is Catholic, it has both Western and Eastern culture. Here in Finland, I would say that people with a Swedish background feel that they are Westerners. Similarly, we have both cultures. Potato, Chili and Tomato are American.
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  619.  @markant9534  Human Rights Watch describes the Red Terror as "one of the most systematic uses of mass murder by a state ever witnessed in Africa".
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  620.  @johnbrewer8954  Why would you even declare war on Germany before 1944? You assume that the Slavs would become Nazis.
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  621.  @johnbrewer8954  Ireland, Portugal, Sweden and Switzerland were neutral. Bulgaria declared war on Germany in October 1944. They weren't as stupid as you.
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  622. Some SS elements had visited the Caucasus and returned. Very experienced troops. I don’t think anyone would suggest this today. It does not make sense to use paratroopers on such a large scale.
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  623. Because they don't want to fight. As a result, millions of Germans surrendered. Why should they continue to fight indefinitely, like Afghans with no sovereignty.
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  624.  @randomguy-tg7ok  Is that a Sabaton song? However, they never even touched the Salpa line, therefore democracy and the rule of law were preserved, thanks in part to the (fallen) Germans.
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  625.  @randomguy-tg7ok  Aah ok...So it's Asiatic hordes in ones and twos https://youtu.be/SJLhpmBqHfA Vs Social Distancing police https://youtu.be/wAvr7fcVJBE
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  626.  @dragosstanciu9866  If you look at the map of continental Europe, it pretty much covers Hitler’s provinces. They simply didn’t even have a plan or resources to go all the way to Alaska. That's why most French Canadians opposed conscription. To be fair Quebec is large enough to be an independent country.
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  627.  @dragosstanciu9866  Exactly
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  628. Allegedly, Minister of Finance Mauno Pekkala (SDP) committed treason by warning Stalin of the impending attack in 1941. In Finland, communists, socialists and social democrats united momentarily after WW2, so Mauno Pekkala became prime minister and Väinö Tanner (SDP) was imprisoned.
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  629. @Fred G. 77% native American, 23% European, 0% African. In other words, she is mestizo: https://youtu.be/wfnVrbJw03A
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  630.  @tadghsmith1457  Actually, people are able to guess their own ethnicity with amazing accuracy without a DNA test.
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  631.  @tadghsmith1457  I can imagine an English soldier in a trench asking, who is coming from there? Are they Cubans? I’m not a scientist, but I have a hunch that they might be Germans. Would you reckon? https://youtu.be/QGfgsHS-_LU
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  632.  @tadghsmith1457  Nigerian army basic training: https://youtu.be/qJ56VqWXMTA
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  633.  @tadghsmith1457  Some South Americans are genuine Germans, which isn’t really surprising considering the total number of Germans.
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  634. Fascism is a right-wing one-party system. Ancap is a drug cartel.
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  635.  @timbushell8640  One myth is to imagine that countries cannot achieve independence peacefully. In 1953, The Soviet Union broke diplomatic relations with Israel after an explosion occured in the Soviet embassy building in Tel Aviv, which was planted by the Tzrifin Underground. Austria became fully independent in 1955. Decisions to punish or not to punish were theirs. Moreover, the Nazis like Kurt Waldheim were indeed considered impartial. Similarly, Estonia has lost some of its autonomy, albeit separated from Russia.
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  636.  @the_Kutonarch  Russia is an openly fascist country. https://freedomhouse.org/report-types/freedom-world
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  637. Former Nazis or the neo-Nazis would not necessarily apologize for anything, yet they got along with Henry Kissinger. In my opinion, this is one difference compared to the Hitlerites.
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  638.  @personaa422  So you say, nationalism and socialism is ok. Where would you put him on a political scale? Near JFK?
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  639.  @personaa422  That makes sense, since the left-wingers were expelled from the Nazi Party. On the other hand, they were populists.
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  640. Wolfgang von Hessen was a member of the SA and joined the Nazi party in 1933. He fought for Finland in 1941-44, then for Germany in 1945. His wife was killed in an attack by the U.S. Army Air Forces during an air-raid on Frankfurt am Main. Wolfgang's story is interesting to me, because he was a potential king of Finland. Wolfgang was descendant of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. After the war, he remarried and studied art. Only one hastily taken picture has survived in the Finnish archives. Jason Statham could portray him, if it were made into a movie : ) https://d1ddzfo1d7bgrb.cloudfront.net/aamulehti/23319628-800x_.jpg
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  641. He was temporarily blinded by a British gas shell and evacuated to a German military hospital at Pasewalk
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  642.  @mikeltelleria1831  One percent of the US population is over 3 million people. It would be interesting to see an army of that size in a country in the Middle East.
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  643. Young people naturally have more energy and vitality. Carl Gustaf Mannerheim had a cyanide pill. As I recall, he was promised immunity in 1943. Helmut Schmidt survived the Battle of the Bulge. He was captured by the British in April 1945.
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  644. Gutter oil is a Chinese slang term for yellow grease collected from grease traps
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  645. Apparently, this isn't a Winston Churchill quote, so I'm happy to claim it for myself. "The fascists of the future will call themselves anti-fascists.” -Jussi Konttinen, July 14, 2022
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  646. How about "The Nazis of the future, will call themselves fascists"
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  647. Some SS men died in Finland in a battle against Austrian mountain troops. For example, SS squad leader Keijo Armas Koskelin served under Felix Steiner (therefore Himmler). He was promoted to platoon leader in Finland. Koskelin was wounded far from the hospital and died in ambulance. I suspect they were either neo-Nazis or republicans. Kinda like the Dixiecrats betrayed Hitler.
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  648. We know Churchill hated communism, but he had no backbone. The Canadian and Australian battalions stopped an entire Chinese division in 1951.
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  649. J 😆
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  650. I agree that Versailles didn't create anything. Rather, the Nazis are a natural state of humanity. In 1927, the GDP per capita exceeded pre-war levels for the first time. After WW2, economic liberalization made extremism unpopular in Bonn. Remote Finland has always been slower to follow Central Europe, therefore the Neo-Nazis remained in power until 1982. Democracy is the result of evolution, not revolution. 10:30 Not only were they innocent, they were the good guys. François Darlan was de facto head of the Vichy government. He commanded an artillery battery that took part in the Battle of Verdun. Why do you think Benito "Duce del Fascismo" Mussolini and Johan Christian Fabritius, a friend of Ernst Kaltenbrunner, supported the Allies of WW I. They were the embodiment of pure evil. Heroes like Albert Einstein, Josip Broz Tito and Väinö Valve supported Germany, Austria and Prussia. After WW2, fearing a Soviet invasion, Yugoslavia quickly established political and defensive agreements with Turkey.
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  651. A bit off-topic, but we still own 200K of superior East German AKs. https://youtu.be/uOlMnczVBPY It is reported that StG was initially marketed as MPi and therefore did not inspire enthusiasm. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_military_rifles#MPi-K_(East_Germany)
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  652. I don't see Ludwig Erhard and Lyndon B. Johnson as enemies. Like two peas in a pod. Look up Louis Till. He was executed by the U.S. Army in 1945 after being found guilty of murdering an Italian woman. West Germany abolished the death penalty fairly quickly in 1949. The USSR was "no-go zone". I only question recidivism and proportionality compared to Karl Dönitz and Ferdinand Schörner.
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  653. Bad lottery ticket due to geography. In remote areas, people were able to flee the battle or the authorities evacuated them.
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  654. The Germans took some 260 civilians as hostages in Finnish Lapland, but they later released the prisoners unharmed. Although the Germans' delaying scorched earth and land mine strategies devastated Finnish Lapland, military impacts were relatively limited. Interestingly, at that time, it was said that the Sami people had Asian blood. Recent genetic studies have indicated that the "Nganassan" autosomic component now makes up more than 25% in the Sami.
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  655.  @PieterKleij  Does Finland need its swastikas? https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/does_finland_need_its_swastikas/9865204
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  656.  @steenkigerrider5340  Dutch band performs "memories from the North". Composed by jaeger Sam Sihvo https://youtu.be/AYB8FjL9jXk
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  657. Estonians are Finno-Ugrian. As a Finn, I understand about 10%. Hungary is more mixed, that's why I don't understand Hungarian at all
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  658. 33:33 Von Lenski was formally acknowledged as a "Victim of Fascism" in 1949. That's pretty strong denialism
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  659.  @dragosstanciu9866  All sources are prohibited, including youtube and Wikipedia.
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  660.  @dragosstanciu9866  Btw. I have to test one sentence at a time because I don’t know which sentence triggers the censorship.
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  661. In general, the Marxist influence in politics would be a degree milder without women’s suffrage.
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  662. Why give meager stockpiles of weapons to the communists? What is the difference between Ion Antonescu and Nicolae Ceaușescu? They were both executed.
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  663.  @TheImperatorKnight  That seems to be a fairly common standpoint in Central Europe. My question is why are you in a military alliance with Germany, where most of the post-war leaders were Nazis. In my opinion, it's a bit illogical.
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  664.  @superdogmeatmeat  By December 1944
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  665. One mistake I've noticed. WW2 pilot Lauri Pekuri is said to have tested the MiG-21. In fact, jets were never tested, but obtained almost for free. Lauri Pekuri was taken to Kazakhstan for training.
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  666.  @thurin84  Crazy thing, Custer died in Montana. I thought the battle took place somewhere in the Midwest. Montana is less populated than Canada, so even in the US a person can live an independent lifestyle of their own.
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  667.  @thurin84  Just random thoughts about the village idiotism https://youtu.be/NHJdBBeLoPk
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  668. Norwegians lost about a man per week. This year, the authorities have already rescued 85 people from Lapland. Modern people don’t realize that a credit card does nothing on the tundra.
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  669. Posh accents get a lot of views because people want to learn languages.
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  670. Göring is right in the sense that entire armies were still operational in April 1945.
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  671. I was captured during a military exercise. The best lesson I learned. Better to take the bullet immediately than to suffer for a year and then be slaughtered by a mujahideen.
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  672. According to wikipedia, Chinese spring offensive of 1951: "The 29th Infantry Brigade consisted of three British and the Belgian Battalion supported by tanks and artillery. Despite facing a numerically superior enemy, the brigade held its positions for three days, repelling several human wave attacks..."
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  673.  @andreykravchenko6829  about your mom
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  674. I see it the other way around. I must whip myself into jingoism. Gaining self-determination is difficult, but it's the right thing to do, just as Dzhokhar Dudayev defended his country. However, forcing people to join the Volkssturm is overkill. Even marshal Mannerheim sent those over 43yo back to their farms. Which nowadays means vacationing on a tropical island.
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  675.  Jose Raul Miguens Cruz  I never wrote that
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  676.  @anatolystepanovichdyatlov1747  Respect also to those who had a clean shield. Väinö Valve was promoted General in 1992. He was the last man standing of the Royal Prussian Jägerbattalion 27 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Väinö_Valve
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  677.  Pedro Kantor  To me, this is somewhat predictable. Fortunately, Finland jumped off Manstein's sled and supported Pol Pot at the UN, so they cannot accuse us of being Nazis.
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  678.  @mcs699  Tikenomics is basically a Paleo social democratic utopia. Isn't Sweden the most British country? Among other things, they publicly opposed the death sentences of Norwegian partisans. https://youtu.be/1kD1zubg3cA
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  679. In my opinion, if a man is not a socialist by the time he is 20, he has no ambition. If he is not a Christian by the time he is 40, he has no common sense.
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  680. At least the foreigners had few chaplains in their ranks, but it was an unusual appointment, according to Ailsby, Christopher (June 2004), Hitler's renegades.
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  681. This happened 80 years ago. I don't think either of them is trying to sell anything. Putin has his slaves. Americans still use Hitler's racial classification.
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  682. That makes sense. Some people fall asleep while heating the oven
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  683. Is 100th Jäger Division still alive?
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  684. I'm so late that Steiner retreated, Wenck's Twelfth Army became Hitler's last hope to save Berlin.
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  685. That is only due to the abundance of Western countries which produces weak people and low birth rates. In people’s minds, Nazism is linked to the police.
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  686. Chile is a good example of a country that has adhered to Prussian "fascist" traditions while being a multiethnic society.
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  687. Not that I condone nazism, but from a henhouse to Nazi Germany’s top leadership doesn’t sound stupid. In the case of Finland, fertility was better than today as early as 1945. So in reality, the perdition is happening right now and the future looks like Istanbul, if we are lucky.
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  688. Who is the most dangerous? Saddam Hussein, Kim Jong-il, Slobodan Milošević, Osama bin Laden. That's why you have to prioritize and execute.
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  689. Because the US is a republic. They even sent food together with Switzerland.
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  690. True, but I'm not sure Britain won anything. Two million houses damaged or destroyed. Although some luck was involved, the Jewish losses in Denmark during WW2 were similar than in the US mainland. Surely, a neutral country could repeat that. Had Chamberlain sold arms to Germany, they could have prospered instead of paying interest.
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  691.  @jacksaad472  "Why would Britain openly volunteer to endorse a dangerous rival" Obviously, it was not yet an army of mercenaries. Ideally, you would only have PTSD or loss of body parts. I'd take my chances in Ireland, instead of Normandy. There was no capital punishment in the West.
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  692. I would like to know how nobles were treated in the Soviet Union. Only the king of Cambodia comes to mind as a sympathizer. After graduation in 1975 Norodom Sihamoni left Prague and began to study filmmaking in North Korea, and in 1977 returned to Cambodia. Historian Malinowski quotes; of 312 families of the old aristocracy 3,592 princes joined the Nazis (26.9%) before Hitler came to power in 1933. Hitler,  Goering, Himmler, and other Nazi leaders, frequently expressed sympathy for the former Prussian kingdom.
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  693. In short, Czechoslovakia was formed from the former territories of Austria and Hungary. Chamberlain is a warmonger. Nazi germany was a mixed economy 😆
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  694. In other words, how to build a nation? Would Iraq be better off now if it had been bombed more?
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  695.  @塔兰克里格  Ferdinand Schörner was the last Commander-in-chief of the Nazi Army. He was fanatical nazi and devoted to Hitler. Schörner was handed over to authorities of East Germany, and he was released in 1955. I don't know what they were thinking in that case.
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  696. When mentally ill people are excluded, perhaps one in ten million are genuine Nazis. John Timothy Earnest and Anders Breivik comes to mind. Certainly neo-Nazies exist, but they don't have Anti-Russian sentiment.
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  697.  @MrJC1  I'd say you have to be at least white and anti-republican before you are put in that box. They are mostly Eastern European fascists. People's Party Our Slovakia.
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  698.  @nottoday3817  Yeah, I know. We literally called for an unconditional surrender, but it was never delivered. "in the present situation in which the Finnish Government finds itself, it may feel that the best solution for its present political difficulties would be a landing by American or even British troops in Finland." September 1, 1943 https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1943v03/d217
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  699.  @Chasstful  Sounds more like a Tarantino fantasy. The war ended without any of the norwegian fortifications being used in action. Dönitz was imprisoned just like Risto Ryti, so it was a conditional surrender. https://suomenpresidentit.fi/ryti/?lang=en Also, terms vary by country. Norway is known to be quite liberal. Most of the Waffen-SS veterans were sentenced to three months in jail under the legal purge in Norway after World War II.
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  700.  @dantecaputo2629  A couple of years later, Stalin is in a coffin and the last Führer goes free. Kurt Kiesinger joined the Nazi Party years earlier than Dönitz. Not that I'm complaining.
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  701.  @chuckschillingvideos  That is relative. Not every single person surrenders. You may even get additional rights, such as the right to vote in Austria, which the Russians don't have.
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  702.  @dantecaputo2629  Stalin had no power after his death. For example, Estonian holdouts were pardoned. And Dönitz lived another 17 years after JFK was assassinated.
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  703.  @khankrum1  Exactly. There was NO surrender! Lieutenant colonel Carl von Haartman was deported from Lapland to Costa del Sol, Spain. He bought a vineyard and drank himself to death at the age of 83 in August 1980.
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  704.  @chrism7969  For example, Ho Chi Minh fought against the Japanese, but was treated less favorably. About 600 of the dead Viet Minh were killed by British soldiers, the rest 2100 by the French and Japanese.
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  705.  @chrism7969  True, it has to do with the conditional surrender of Germany.
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  706.  @chrism7969  You forget that the Waffen-SS was an international organization. The Finnish SS switched sides and most of them were promoted. The Bulgarian SS regiment disbanded itself and the soldiers mingled with the local population. Junior SS officers were sentenced to three months in jail under the legal purge in Norway. As early as June 1946, Harry Truman offered to provide political asylum for Marshal Pétain. Subsequent arrests were either self-inflicted or otherwise unrelated to WW2. In Austria alone, 200,000 Nazis lost the right to vote. That sounds conditional, compared to a hanging.
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  707.  @chrism7969  The Finnish Waffen-SS (FFB) served under Himmler in 1941-43 and fought in Tornio against Germany in 1944. Not to be confused with MG Ski Brigade Finnland, which was Austrian. I guess Finland was Co-belligerent of The USSR, since they remained in defensive positions in Ivalo. In my opinion, the Waffen-SS can be broadly called Nazis, even if not everyone was involved in war crimes.
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  708.  @chrism7969  Basically, local law dictates sentencing. At Stalin's request, Finland expelled some Finnish citizens with a Russian background, the last of whom died in a concentration camp in 1951. Capital punishment was de facto abolished: Finland 1944 Norway 1948 West Germany 1949 Denmark 1950 Netherlands 1952 East Germany 1987
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  709.  @chrism7969  Terms vary by country. Partly even worse conditions in the USSR. Many people were rehabilitated posthumously. For example Khaibakh massacre in 1944. And some sources give a minimum of 115,000 peasants who died of famine in Moldavian SSR.
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  710.  @chrism7969  When "unconditional" surrender equals Monday in the USSR, then why not call it conditional.
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  711.  @chrism7969  That's why I said legislation varies from country to country. Under U.S. law, people’s rights increased. Capital punishment was reinstated by Quisling. He was sentenced to death under Norwegian law. In Austria, the number of eligible voters rose to 3.25 million compared to zero in Soviet Russia. Mere membership of the Nazi Party didn't necessarily cause anything, see Herbert von Karajan, Kurt Georg Kiesinger etc.
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  712.  @chrism7969  So you say it was de jure unconditional, de facto conditional. I agree.
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  713.  @Chasstful  Adolf Heusinger even commanded British troops. For all intents and purposes he was a clone of Hitler. In other words, it was entirely possible for the British to join Axis.
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  714.  @dantecaputo2629  Clean Wehrmacht is a myth. Austria, UN, NASA, DDR and West Germany were run by Nazies. Not mentions 'Hans Landa' was presidential elector in Finland (1968).
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  715. Axis military casualties 13% Allied military casualties 25%
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  716. That is a good question. I would say the real reason is industrialization when you look at the number of participants, which is much higher than these videos show. Quite a few had already fought in WW1, including Harry S Truman and Hitler. On the other hand, perhaps Patton didn't want to repeat mistakes, thus being more sympathetic to the Germans.
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  717. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers surrendered, yet the Army Group G retreated in good order. I'd expect paratroopers like Hans Kroh to die fighting.
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  718.  @Battyj  Very similar than relations between the Tories and Republicans at the time. Great-great-granddaughter of Emperor Alexander II of Russia married Prince Franz Wilhelm of Prussia. His father Karl Franz served as a lieutenant and was awarded the Iron Cross. Karl died in Chile. Would be interesting to see his documents from Bundesarchiv.
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  719. No one wants to risk their lives when the enemy is retreating anyway. It’s obvious from a front-line soldier's point of view. At least this was the reason in Lapland.
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  720. They had several fronts, and were not neighbors before that moment in Berlin, with the exception of Alaska. Truman did give Senate Majority Leader Scott W. Lucas a draft resolution titled "Joint Resolution Expressing Approval of the Action Taken in Korea".
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  721.  @tomjustolsen1079  Don’t get me wrong, I like the Nordic countries, but in reality these are harsh places. We are rich in natural resources. It's worth comparing populations, for example: Baltoscandia 33 million, Canada 37 million, Philippines alone over 100 million.
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  722.  @tomjustolsen1079  Jenni Haukio is the only woman who has ever given birth during her husband's tenure of office. If Finland were an easy place, there would already be 100 million Finns.
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  723. Are you comparing yourself to Jesus the Nazarene, King of the Jews? You shall not covet my servants doesn't sound particularly altruistic.
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  724. I think they sent SS divisions, but they had already fought fiercely and were waiting for help. Fresh men arrived only after the defeat of Stalingrad
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  725.  @mabussubam512  To be clear, the Slovak Republic was an ally. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovak_invasion_of_Poland
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  726.  @mabussubam512  They even look like caricature Nazis in Hollywood movies. https://www.sotasampo.fi/fi/photographs/page/sakuva_108009
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  727.  @WandererRTF  Mannerheim was an independent right-winger and a pro-Russian monarchist. His great grandfather  joined the Anjala conspiracy against the King of Sweden Gustav III. In a speech from 1919 Mannerheim thanked the support he received from the National Coalition Party. The so-called "Finns of Mannerheim" were workers and farmers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939_Finnish_parliamentary_election
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  728.  @manichaean1888  Although "Borrowing Matchsticks" is a comedy based on a misconception, it does contain interesting portrayal of the Tsarist era legal system, written by a socialist. https://youtu.be/-33o2NVE7fw https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0081796/
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  729. Russia accounted for 25.5 percent of the extra-EU petroleum oil imports in 2020, yet the Eurozone doesn't produce more than the US. I would abandon Caucasus in September at the latest. Taliban-style guerrilla warfare is quite effective, albeit it doesn't make sense businesswise.
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  730.  @Raskolnikov70  "Sir, general. Well, I declare. 103 fallen, 46 of them in coffins, 18 of them are being washed. The rest are melting." -Lieutenant colonel Nikke Pärmi https://fi.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nikke_Pärmi Nikke Pärmi was one of the Finnish Jaeger troops trained in the volunteer Royal Prussian 27th Jäger Battalion. During the Continuation War, he was appointed to command the penal battalion "black arrow". Like many other soldiers in the unit, Pärmi had also been in prison for manslaughter.
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  731. lol the Arab-Israeli War began in 1917 and has lasted to this day.
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  732. As far as I can remember, the German register contains the data of 18 million soldiers. Although not all were at the same point at the same time, 5-6 million casualties did indeed form a gigantic herd.
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  733.  @sthomas7002  If you go down that line, you should count all the prohibited rifle bullets, etc.
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  734.  @aleksazunjic9672  Unacceptable, if you have a slavic surname. No one has been executed on Finnish soil since September 1944.
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  735. I said, concentration camps were morally wrong, but my comment was deleted. Hmmm, so it was actually....?
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  736. Typical Allied over-engineering. Axis men go to the nearest hardware store and buy insecticide
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  737.  @kingorange7739  Interestingly, the Finnish government was ready to declare war on Germany as early as September 1943, but the Western Allies were unable to support Finland. "in the present situation in which the Finnish Government finds itself, it may feel that the best solution for its present political difficulties would be a landing by American or even British troops in Finland. " https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1943v03/d217
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  738.  @generalleedle6883  Crazy how Dzhokhar Dudayev was assassinated. His story is also the USSR's story in a nutshell.
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  739. Yes, if the Anschluss had failed before they reached Vienna, but Hitler didn't have nuclear weapons. We are now bystanders and cheerleaders, just like the USSR was in 1964. They had about 3000 soldiers in Vietnam. I think we have less than 3000 soldiers in Ukraine.
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  740. Мы пришли из космоса 🇫🇮🤖
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  741. I have a hunch that their story is reminiscent of the movie Fury. You can think for yourself whether it is historically accurate or not. https://youtu.be/9eFq6BmieQ8
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  742. Where would you prefer to live, in Iraq, Russia or North Korea?
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  743.  @fallingfallingfallingfalli500  There were an insane number of nobles in the Nazi party. More than a quarter joined before Hitler came to power in 1933. Literally descendants of Queen Victoria. Norodom Sihamoni is the only communist King, I know. Please enlighten me, if you know more. The truth is that Nazi economic policy was centre-left and communist were extreme left.
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  744.  @overtonpendulum2071  Hitler demanded for Poland to join the Anti-Comintern Pact, but I don't think this is an interesting question due to geography. Maybe Truman would have detonated a nuclear weapon over Warsaw.
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  745.  @ginbelg1  19:02 I'd put the Statue of Liberty in the middle and a Buddha statue to the right.
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  746.  @haraldbredsdorff2699  From the visitor's point of view, the experience is very similar to that of North Korea. This video was already censored by Mannerheim: https://youtu.be/xZpijQpOrg4
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  747. I would say two decades of based propaganda before feminism. Contrary to popular belief, Eisenhower was a social conservative.
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  748. ​ @jensphiliphohmann1876  If you count Lord Haw-Haw's radio broadcasts, you get five years of exposure to German propaganda, not decades.
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  749. Unfortunately, the opposite is true. The most fanatical will win https://youtu.be/Tp864P2Uge8
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  750. Did Trump kill six million jews?
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  751. I love the multilingual versions where Rommel is a genius and rehabilitated posthumously. However, If I was him, I would have established my own country in Africa.
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  752. They did sentence 1488 people in prison for 6-months and a few scapegoats for a couple of years. Admittedly, partly also for domestic reasons. The size and activities of the Finnish army were limited, until Mauno Koivisto terminated the peace agreement in 1990. But you’re right that the majority of people never literally raised their hands and surrendered.
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  753. In addition, 8 people were sent to the Soviet Gulag, which pretty much ended the communist rule in Finland (people were fuhrerious).
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  754. Vilho Pentikäinen gave Suomi KP/-31 blueprints to the Soviets. He spent years spying for the Soviet Union, but ended up being accused himself and died in a camp in 1942.
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  755. When are you going to make a video about Stalin is Muhammad and Communism is a religion?
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  756. Nearly
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  757. On the contrary, you share only 3 percent of your genes with your second cousin. The Nazis were far too mixed-race. Ideal person you should marry is your third counsin. All countries in the western world allow third cousins to marry. That's how early humans survived the Ice Age
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  758. Oil is needed for a Central European standard of living, but it is by no means necessary. This will reveal who really wants to fight to the end, like the Taliban or Japanese. Btw Hirohito maintained his position until 1989.
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  759. I just read a Finnish nationalist magazine from 1942. They mentioned experimental jet aircraft Caproni Campini N.1.
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  760. Also varies by decade. Before and after the 1960s.
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  761. Although Finland joined the EEC, autarky was emphasized for a long time post WW2. For example, the Siilinjärvi carbonatite complex was sold to Norwegian Yara in 2007. Sale of land to foreigners would not make sense without heavy taxation.
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  762. History Of Socialism Unfortunately, the Socialists were purged by Stalin.
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  763. History Of Socialism I was referring to the Mensheviks and the Social Democrats. Mauno Koivisto was the first Social Democratic Party member to be elected President of Finland. He served in the Infantry Detachment Törni led by Lauri Törni (Hauptsturmführer of the Waffen-SS), which was a reconnaissance detachment operating behind enemy lines.
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  764. Compare Helmut Schmidt and Mao Zedong. Which one would you vote for?
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  765.  @Cripalani  Good luck with that
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  766. Watch MajorSamm "Sisu - Finland '83" and count how many black men you see. I can tell you, Zero. Urho Kekkonen had already been ousted a year earlier. However, Mauno Koivisto (SDP) said privately, "if we don't stop Somalis, who will we stop?"
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  767. For me, the over-acted movie scenes are a bit annoying. Back in the day, it was a sin on a historical subject, unless you put genuine war clips inside a movie.
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  768. Amazing Allied powers. Seriously, free trade zone in Brazil. Indigo Traveller: Manaus, Brazil (Huge City in Amazon of 2 Million People)
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  769. Russia cried for 90+ years. I watched a video about Finnish espionage in Leningrad. Approaching by land was not possible, because there were such massive bunkers in Leningrad.
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  770. They imagine that Putin is similar to Stalin, even though they are not even from the same country. U.S. production alone was higher than total Axis production. Note that Finland succeeded in stopping the enemy, because there was no western front.
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  771.  @OperationFoxley19441  Every Russian soldier is a Nazi. According to wiki, 4th SS Polizei Panzergrenadier Division did not have to meet the racial and physical requirements imposed for the SS. Putin has selected their Z symbol for his naZi horde
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  772.  Hunter D  "what they were doing in their colonies" That's a pointless generalization. What colonies did "The Finnish Volunteer Battalion of the Waffen-SS" have? What happen to everyone is considered innocent unless they are proven guilty. Although the SS forces committed war crimes, there is no evidence that every single SS member participated or was even alive. Some things remain mysteries forever.
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  773.  Hunter D  I mean people who died immediately upon entering the service in 1941. Or those who joined the Nazis in 1945 could not participate in a war crime in 1944.
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  774. You're overcomplicating. Social Democracy is feminist. Islam is chauvinistic and anti-alcohol. Catholicism is the middle ground. Interestingly, the Allied Control Council didn't abolish the blasphemy law in Finland. As late as 1987, charges were considered, but the archbishop objected.
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  775.  @VunderGuy  One man was deported to Somalia a couple of days ago. In addition to being born and living in Finland, he is the guardian of two children living in Finland. His parents failed to apply for citizenship and he committed crimes. On a larger scale, this case is like seeing a unicorn. It will certainly be an adventure of a lifetime!
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  776.  Slawa Wacker  At the beginning of 1914, Mannerheim was afforded the command of the Cavalry Brigade in Warsaw, a post which had been vacated. He left the Warsaw hunting club in late July to mobilize his brigade, and in a few days’ time Germany declared war against Russia. http://www.mannerheim.fi/05_s_ura/e_puola.htm
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  777. Germany was corrupt. Communist countries were much more united in their madness from Leningrad to Mongolia. Spain, Switzerland and Ireland were not socialist at all. Sweden was only nominally socialist during WW2. Even today, Sweden has no inheritance tax.
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  778. I watched again Mad Max: Fury road. Georg Miller describes quite well a fascist model of society. At the end, Max helps rebels to seize power, but leaves the fortress. Obese women are shown opening up water tanks and pouring water directly on dry ground. They probably died of thirst anyway.
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  779. Or just attempted Reformation. Christianity was the predominant religion in 1950.
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  780. Are you saying Reinhard Heydrich lied?
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  781. Take a look at what is genopolitics. It can be difficult to get rid of your ethnicity after conception.
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  782.  @antoncouveld1734  Quechua is the most widely spoken pre-Columbian language family of the Americas, with an estimated 8–10 million speakers. They also speak Spanish, but I don't think they would join Spain. Similarly, SPD and the Left have about 59% support in Germany. Sure, some person may be an extremist, but most people are not. Basically, women vote for state aid because they can get pregnant. It's not indoctrination. Well, maybe 9% of teenagers. That is already 59%.
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  783.  @antoncouveld1734  To my recollection, New Zealand also declared war on Finland, but the USA did not. Today, one could imagine Biden-Elizabeth's relationship to be similar. Biden is an Irish Catholic.
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  784. This was already a gulag, when they stopped giving food. Major general Karl Eibl was killed by italians.
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  785. Norway, Denmark, Iceland and Justin Trudeau ratified Finland's NATO membership. I didn't even know Canada was a member. This seems final, although Turkey is slowing down a bit.
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  786. I can imagine the Nazis succeeding as technophobes when combined with chauvinism and occultism. They would move to Russia in civilian clothes and build occult centers with loudspeakers. On the other hand, if Ferdinand Schörner stole a nuclear weapon in 1963, it would lead to something like North Korea. He would be Hitler II. Just like the Pope doesn't use his real name.
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  787. 9:20 Are you saying the Inquisition were the good guys? Focusing too much on philosophy is misleading, because practice is a different matter. Any party or religion can become corrupt.
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  788. ​ @GAMER123GAMING  When the Lutherans sacked Prague in 1648, it was not our finest moment. I'll give you that.
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  789. 23:00 Colonel Torvald Ekman commanded a brigade during the battle of Ilomantsi. At the time, a Finnish colonel was equivalent to a one-star general. The brigadier general (one lion) rank was added for NATO compatibility.
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  790. We jumped in their game with the new foreign intelligence law in 2019. "Cybersäkerhetscentret" operational since 2014. In the good old days, they all were just the Finnish Security Police, in Derrick style. https://youtu.be/X5CuAVqtG6s
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  791.  @QuizmasterLaw  The Philippines is more dangerous than China if pollution is not taken into account, but you are right that the Northern campaign (Irish Republican Army) 1942-44 would be a short video. Btw. in 2013 German TV 2 announced it would no longer carry reruns of the most boring show, after it emerged that Horst Tappert had joined the infamous 3. SS-Panzergrenadier-Division Totenkopf, then deployed on the Eastern Front, in March 1943.
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  792. The Democratic Party supported racial segregation until 1948. They were not liberals. I think Bulgaria and Slovakia are border countries. East Germany was a border country. For example, Vietnamese students were forbidden to imitate Germans who dressed like Westerners.
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  793.  @alexdunphy3716  What if she likes it
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  794. It's a bit like relations between Serbia and the Warsaw Pact. Yugoslav Army maintained two official defense plans, one against a NATO invasion and one against a Warsaw Pact invasion.
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  795.  @Oldscale  It’s easy to be a liberal when you’re sandwiched between two liberal counries.
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  796.  @karimchaffai5922  Operation Searchlight
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  797.  @Oldscale  Do you mean banning Holocaust denial is not liberalism? I would say Finland in general is more conservative because Russia is next door.
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  798. I am surprised that they entered the war. I understand that they would have had the opportunity to remain as a spectator like Ireland.
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  799.  @alastairmcleod4627  I don't know the details, but according to Wikipedia, they forgot to declare war against Finland.
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  800.  @alastairmcleod4627  I think you're right. In theory, the South African Army could have traveled by boat to Murmansk and from there to the front.
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  801. In other words, you are praising them for being amateurs. What's so great about that? How is it different from the Finnish air force?
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  802. They also had plans during WW2
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  803.  @mikealpha2611  Americans violated the blockade, at least in Finland and Switzerland. Finland and Canada were officially at war, but the US had a representative in Finland. Churchill gave up.
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  804.  @mikealpha2611  That is why I said a plan. Planning is makes sense, even if implementation is unlikely. Britain was a fading empire.
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  805. Not so many as communists. Timoshenko was clearly a war criminal. He dropped napalm on synagogues and churches in 1939-40. Grigory Shtern didn't escape, though.
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  806. "In this difficult plight", 1936 Huh, what's the difficulty? I thought 1945 was difficult for him.
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  807. The Commonwealth has long been a voluntary organization. Why would you join it? For example, Myanmar seceded in 1948.
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  808.  @autarchprinceps  I thought his tone of voice was sarcastic, but maybe I misunderstood. I'm not English. However, Alexander II is called liberator and Stalin is called tyrant, albeit both were colonizers.
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  809. Bush jr. was a big-government advocate
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  810. I'm looking for either moving or entertaining movies. The 9th Company (2005) crossed some cultural boundary at that moment.
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  811.  Wulf  I guess it depends on citizenship. Stalin insisted that the citizens to be returned to the USSR. They were not necessarily counted. Those who fled Russia 1917-20 were middle and upper class white Russian émigrés. Some half-Germans born in Russia were accepted into the SS right from the start. After all, mother had her husband’s Germanic surname.
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  812. Chauvinism was universal at the time, so you can't link it to nazism. Modern "Socialists" say, it's fine to treat Somali and Arab women as breeding machines. However, I would say the Nazi middle management was conservative.
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  813. We don't have to guess, because Pakistan played a significant role in the withdrawal of Soviet military personnel from Afghanistan. Currently, The Pakistan Army has approximately 560,000  active-duty  personnel, 550,000 reservists and 180,000 regional forces.
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  814. Amusingly, they removed a 1961 music video with smoke on the floor. People imagined that smoke is coming from a crematorium. Or was it a copyright infringement? https://youtu.be/YjXC4N1HXf0
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  815. A robber's cross added to the Cross of Saint Peter would make sense, but this is just a guess.
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  816. Ruhr occupation, (1923–25) occupation of the industrial Ruhr River valley region in Germany by French and Belgian troops. The action was provoked by German deficiencies in the coal and COKE deliveries to France required by the reparations agreement after World War I 😆😆
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  817. Did they confiscate your cocaine? I visited Prague in 2006 and it seemed like a no-go zone.
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  818.  @simplicius11  Finnish People's Democratic League was founded in 1944 as the anti-communist laws in Finland were repealed due to the demands of the Soviet Union. The Communists ultimately failed to put an end to the current system because they lost the 1948 elections and the alcoholic (his own words) Minister of the Interior Yrjö Leino was unable to help the Communists. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Finnish_parliamentary_election
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  819.  @simplicius11  Certain second lieutenant in the front line said, that Finland would have surrendered unconditionally in the summer of 1940.
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  820. Didn’t they invent Fanta due to the embargo?
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  821. Coca-Cola was not liked in Finland until they donated more than 700,000 bottles to the Association of disabled soldiers in 1952.
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  822. Problem with Laissez-faire is not the formation of a monopoly but a poor defense capability. For example, the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests.
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  823.  @ericfischer4458  Abortion was also illegal in the USSR. A Finnish POW returned in 1959 with three children and his fourth child was born at the Finnish Embassy. I don’t know how his German wife ended up in Russia. Maybe she was born there?
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  824.  @RaymondCritchley5483  You can't just imagine, you have to be a person of substance. Baby boom in the West was due to a combination of fertile soil and Christianity. On the other hand, Romanian attempt to increase population from 20 million to 30 million inhabitants was a disaster.
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  825.  Kiwi Kopf  Russia’s population shrank by about half a million last year. I suspect they still have the communist mindset.
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  826.  Kiwi Kopf  That's not a rape though.
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  827.  @crabpeople2137  The Eagle Has Landed is still the best British war film
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  828.  @unreadyjam60  I recommend Jordan Peterson & Yeonmi Park podcast. Kim Il-Sung was one of the recipients of lend-lease. How can this be an ongoing problem? I thought Hitler was dead.
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  829.  @Mr.Truxton  I would say Finland is a mixed economy. The state is a co-owner in every company. Only less corrupt than some other countries. Sweden does not benefit from debt because they have their own currency.
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  830. Grant and Lee like two berries
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  831.  @RamblingRecruiter  Emperor Constantine is perhaps a more meaningful parable because the Eastern Roman Empire does not exist.
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  832. You can always hope. In our county there are stones with Feodor the Bellringer's symbol from 1595, which means the border between Protestants and Orthodox Christians.
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  833. Perhaps military service is not so enforced in the UK that whole battalions would have switched sides, but I think they have more than just one traitor. 'Famous Last Words' Louis Mountbatten: Nice weather Mr. Murphy. Let's have some fun at the lake.
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  834. Mauno Koivisto wrote a side note in his bible that Stalin is the anti-Christ.
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  835. Montgomery is actually a bit underrated. Considering what risks they took, with relatively little loss.
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  836. We don't have to guess because WW1 was not a race war. Albert Einstein lived in Berlin and supported Germany.
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  837. They have a common defense. I sympathize with Russia, but deep down people want the right to vote, hence The UK Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF).
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  838. Two wrongs don't make a right: https://youtu.be/jtNEkRCJssc
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  839.  @markbutler7027  Exactly...as Ireland did
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  840.  @hailexiao2770  You don't need a noble ideology to go to war. Clas Eriksson Fleming subdued Swedish rebels of the Cudgel War in 1596–97. Outsiders basically choose a random party to support. For example, Josip Broz Tito fought on the "Nazi" side during WW1.
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  841.  @fiddlersgreen2433  Actually, there is a lot of neutral information coming from the UN and also from the UK, which supports my own observations, such as the List of freedom indices.
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  842.  @fiddlersgreen2433  Mannerheim did not cling to power like some other people. Maybe that's why the Americans didn't declare war.
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  843.  @nicholasconder4703  Yes, I meant the U.S. government resisted Soviet pressures to declare war on Finland.
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  844.  @julianshepherd2038  A certain KGB agent converted to fascism. That's why it's confusing nonsense.
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  845. That is a good example of how a word spreads. I don’t know how to say it shorter in English. Shoulder-fired AT grenade? Or an RPG if you assume it's recoilless? What about in German if the word is followed by a number? Like Panzerfaust 150s?
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  846. Crazy that Rochus Misch (telephone operator) saw everything live and watched the film Downfall. He probably didn’t need other hallucinogens.
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  847. Although Japan got baited, Hitler should have appeased the USA or send Otto Skorzeny to Capitol Hill. Monarchy is a weak system. Hitler exploited the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway and later also Italy.
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  848. Choosing Karl Dönitz as his successor seems too sensible. On the other hand, becoming the head of state was not tempting at the time.
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  849.  @firemangan2731  Sad how the 1971 genocide is taboo and the other is not. One day the truth will come out
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  850.  @thefrenchareharlequins2743  Yahya Khan served in the Great Britain's British Indian Army.
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  851.  @thefrenchareharlequins2743  "History is written by the victors" -Sir Winston Churchill
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  852. I go even further and say that they were not enough National Socialist. Sweden had an army under Carl August Ehrensvärd, with a peak of 400,000 mobilisable soldiers during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Just downhill since then. However, I understand the masses are not capable of such complex thinking.
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  853. Germany abolished the death penalty. They became a partner, instead of a colony.
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  854. Hitler was promoted to the rank of Lance Corporal (OR-3). Once the purges of the Nazi party and German government concluded, Hitler became a six-star general (OF-11?) For comparison, Simo Häyhä was promoted to Second lieutenant (OF-1), from junior sergeant (OR-4), personally by Marshal Gustaf Mannerheim.
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  855. Probably some honor tradition. It's not like Churchill had to use his own credit card.
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  856. However, if you read about the American mafia, you get the picture as if something was wrong in the economy.
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  857.  @ihatecabbage7270  Finland had so many planes left that surplus had to be stored in accordance with the Peace Treaty. Messerschmitt Bf 109 was reportedly dangerous to fly because of scrap metal coming off the enemy plane hit the windshield. Among these ancient remains, however, it was an advanced aircraft. To my understanding only German planes were "free". In addition, some of these are locally made clones, not actual enemy planes: https://youtu.be/gafiwpfCDjU
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  858.  @carloskleiber8500  They should have sent social workers to help the Japanese.
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  859.  Tony Scofield  You died of stupidity. My grandpa died of smoking. Well, technically the same thing
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  860.  @Litany_of_Fury  Stay stronk lol. Based on gun ownership statistics, I say there is a need for proper military training. Perhaps there is no real need for anti-tank equipment in particular, at the Russian border. Heavy equipment is really a kind of insurance, even though an event like Kursk will never be seen in Finland.
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  861.  @Edax_Royeaux  In our county, unauthorized soldiers are transported back to the barracks, so I don't quite grasp the concept of uselessness. While arresting a third drunk person, police say sarcastically, "Here comes another hero": https://youtu.be/68bxJ5QsKTg
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  862. I think Australians drink coffee liqueur and wine. A German discount store sells Fosters throughout Europe, hence the misunderstanding.
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  863. lol neo-German. Are they your relatives?
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  864. I like the "taiga"(long a** finnish word: havumetsävyöhyke). However, winter swimming in not my hobbies. Arctic convoys sound like a nightmare.
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  865. Lída Baarová was a Czech actress who for two years was the mistress of Joseph Goebbels. Her interview is on YouTube, at least for now.
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  866. Churchill was a semi-autocrat. If he had completely suppressed the smarter subordinates, they would have lost.
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  867. When a nation fails, people will build fences anyway. I don't think a gated community in Mexico is better than a republic. Not to mention, East Germans buried anti-personnel mines along the Inner German Border.
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  868. Finland is the Police
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  869.  @68walter  Belgium, Hungary and the Netherlands were at the forefront of foreign nationalities in the Waffen-SS.
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  870. If German ethnicity does not exist, the British carpet bombed their own people. Churchill was as crazy as Himmler.
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  871. And the reasons behind the ultimatum. Three K's in Finnish, but maybe RRR in English: Resentment, revenge and rut.
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  872. When in Rome, do as the Romans do
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  873. I love your content. Keep up the good work.
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  874.  @darklysm8345  I am a simple nationalist. Without guns we would be in a sweatshop doing flipflops.
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  875. Sadly, only the Russians are in trouble. Our socialists are bathing in money. At the moment, it seems that we will get a Conservative-Labour coalition government in Finland.
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  876.  @drinksnapple8997  That is nonsense. West Germany abolished the death penalty in 1949 and Allied forces left Austria in 1955. Soviets had Soviet boots on their necks, and to some extend they still have pretty harsh conditions. For example, 34,588,900 people live in Uzbekistan.
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  877.  @drinksnapple8997  Huh, and Commonwealth of Nations is better? Rwandan logistic are great. Yeah, right.
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  878. Fortunately, you don't have inheritance tax, like in Finland and the UK. We sold our forest to a (Norwegian) mining company a couple of weeks ago.
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  879. London was a legit target, because they are nazis. Putin logic.
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  880. Another "monster", ISU-152 could be captured by throwing smoke grenades under it. The ISU-152 is quite useless once its track breaks.
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  881. Stupid madman AH?
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  882. In Finland, the Finns party is not considered eligible for government. As a result, 19 MPs betrayed the rest. They got into government, but lost all seats in the 2019 election. While I agree with the Blue Reform on many things, I can't stand two-faced policians.
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  883.  @dragosstanciu9866  Athens was declared an open city by the Germans on October 11th, 1944. By recruiting the nazi collaborators, the British changed the paradigm, signalling that the old order was back. So yes they fought both at the same time during WW2. Starting from Ukraine and heading south to Africa, the 27th meridian east passes through: Romania, Bulgaria and the island of Crete. Where that arrow hits should be a star 4:49
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  884.  @devincarter7434  Churchill fought the Communists in Greece in 1944 and at the same time supported them in areas that were not included into the British sphere of influence. Bulgaria was a tsardom. Naturally a maritime state and the birthplace of Prince Philip was more familiar to them than a slavic country.
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  885.  @Matt_History  I am saying that they are apolitical bohemians as the Chinese.
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  886.  @noodled6145  See 1945 Austrian legislative election
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  887. Somehow motorists manage to drive through intersections without crashing, even though there are endless shades of color between red and green.
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  888.  @rurikhistorik6338  According to Tehran documents (December 1943), there is some truth in it, but even those borders are not guaranteed by anyone other than the Finnish army.
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  889.  John Cornell  Including three million horses, reindeers, dogs etc. Horses can swim, because they have huge lungs.
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  890. That is a good question. I suspect German-speaking persons had a rather lax criteria.
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  891. I guess Slavic SA/SS officers had to be 50% German regardless of last name. For NCOs and below, family background was not examined.
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  892.  @johnburns4017  Such is conditional surrender. Urho Kekkonen under Andrei Zhdanov directed the trials in Finland until 1947, thus it can be characterized as a kangaroo court. From then on, Kekkonen was able to threaten his political opponents with the Moscow card.
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  893.  @johnburns4017  Or else welcome uncle Stalin. If the trial had been entirely orchestrated by the Finns, they would not have been arrested at all. "13. Finland undertakes to collaborate with the Allied powers in the apprehension of persons accused of war crimes and in their trial"
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  894. Great Finns. The criminal Risto Ryti is greater than the judge, because he resigned. Imagine if Hitler had said it, I messed up. I will resign. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suuret_suomalaiset
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  895.  @johnburns4017  100 Greatest Britons: 1. Neville Chamberlain 2. Robert the Bruce 3. Edward VIII 4. Henry (bishop of Finland) 5. Isaac Newton 6. Charles Darwin 7. Stephen Hawking 8. James D. Watson 9. Sean Connery 10. Jason Statham . . . 64. Sir Winston Churchill 65. James Connolly, activist, politician and Marxist insurgent leader 66. Gordon Ramsay 67. Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Greatest_Britons
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  896.  @johnburns4017  You are practically denying the conditional surrender. Suits me. It's true that prison sentences were shortened, and subsequent trials were due to Finnish gun laws. https://youtu.be/c2HwE8fsoLA
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  897. What's wrong with that?
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  898.  @johntera09  Yeah, that's just politics. Here in Finland, The Finns Party is in practice the nationalist Labour Party, since the SDP became a party of globalists.
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  899.  @dolebandit9942  Sir Keir Starmer, the current Leader of the Opposition, is practically a Judeo-Menshevik, thus very far from communism. Also, PM Sanna Marin’s covid policy is practically similar to that of nationalists. That's why I am pleased, although I wouldn't vote for them.
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  900. Certainly in the Nordic countries they had some half-tracks running on woodgas.
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  901.  @yulusleonard985  The jews lost that war. Axis lost later due to population decline.
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  902.  @yulusleonard985  Axis was a broad alliance that also included republics. There were a lot of Slavs involved right from the start. I mean, they lost like the US lost in Vietnam, and gradually became globalized over the decades. I still wouldn’t want to live in Vietnam. Finland https://youtu.be/-fZ-u6F6nAc Japan/USA https://youtu.be/HbVWAjUPQDk East germany https://youtu.be/MwSYz82k1KA
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  903.  @yulusleonard985  Although the "amish" lifestyle was strenuous, immigration was not necessary due to healthy birth rates.
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  904.  @yulusleonard985  "the world will forget" The world has already forgotten. Germany is just one country that may or may not be Balkanized. Although the fate of Zimbabwe is unlikely. We stil have Reichskommissariat Ukraine and many other wonderful countries. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Battalion
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  905.  @yulusleonard985  In addition, Finland supported Pol Pot at the UN, so we Axis countries are very quick and flexible to make the necessary decisions, in the style of Molotov-Ribbentrop.
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  906.  @yulusleonard985  I don't quite understand what you mean, but I'm happy with my own Fennonite ethno-religion, instead of Lutheranism.
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  907.  @yulusleonard985  lol..yes, my grandfather was a very funny man, double lottery winner. But I'm afraid the US tried the same thing more than once Then: https://youtu.be/4yh8FrrpKbM Now: https://youtu.be/BlXeJv5s4p8
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  908. Operation Searchlight should not be forgotten. Nixon appeased China, but the perpetrators were Pakistani. Because of this, India and China are not completely on the same page
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  909.  @ВячеславСкопюк  De facto Axis, de jure co-belligerent. Finland had a similar transit agreement with the Soviet Union and now with NATO. "regarding the provision of Host Nation Support for the execution of NATO operations". The reason behind such an agreement is that Finnish soldiers do not have (want) to fight abroad, but the people are in favor of compulsory military service. NATO soldiers are mostly volunteers.
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  910. I thought Rudolf Hess was a traitor, because he was born in a British client state.
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  911. Estonia, De facto, became independent in 1994. Still young, science-based and naive. Wait a couple of decades and they will find religion.
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  912. IMO Husky and Normandy are actually the most significant. I don't need to see starving Soviets. Chinese lost tens of millions of people in the 1960s. Just because people die doesn’t mean it would have any impact.
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  913. "Unconditional" sounds cool until you meet Heinrich Severloh and regret your life choices. Likewise, SS-rottenführer Veikko Kasslin (1919-2021) was a machine gunner in Russia.
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  914. Nationalist Europe is an oxymoron, as is National Socialist. Hitler was an imperialist
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  915. Mussolini was a bald head like Putin. After all, it doesn’t matter why he subjugated people, such as Ethiopia
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  916.  @paduapeted49  "Finland requires trans people to be sterilized before their new gender identity can be legally recognised." https://newsnowfinland.fi/finland-international/finland-sharply-criticised-over-racism-trans-rights-and-immigrant-issues Presumably the reason is, that it would be economically viable to declare yourself a woman, thus avoiding military service.
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  917.  @paduapeted49  Female voters decide. They also have an incentive to milk alimony and other benefits. I would even extend compulsory civilian service to women. I think the army like compulsory schooling. Studying self-defense is mandatory in any case, privately owned or not.
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  918. Rather, Stalin had darwinian way of pruning out the failures. They didn't have a long life expectancy.
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  919.  @andrebas1124  About 300 commanders, including Major General Ernst Schacht, Lieutenant General Pyotr Pumpur, and Lieutenant General Yakov Smushkevich, were executed in 1941-42. Some as late as the 1950s, such as Vladimir Kirpichnikov.
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  920. General, navy commander Väinö Valve https://youtu.be/gRaMGgkmMX0 General and main strategic planner A.F Airo https://youtu.be/U4Q5r429Uq8 General Adolf Ehrnrooth https://youtu.be/9URb-TjvoHw Staatsoberhaupt, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, the Reichspräsident Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz https://youtu.be/tk6SivpQuWw
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  921.  @andrebas1124  A Finnish division is actually bigger than Soviet division, thus Finnish general outranks soviet general. Not to mention A.F Airo was practically equivalent to a marshal. https://images.cdn.yle.fi/image/upload//w_1199,h_823,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto:eco/13-3-10361189.jpg
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  922. Hans Speidel was a German general during the Second World War and the Cold War, who served as Supreme Commander of the NATO ground forces in Central Europe. It was murder. They rolled right into the muzzles of the concealed eighty-eights and all I could do was stand by and watch tank after tank blown to bits or burst into flames or just stop, wrecked. Those in the rear tried to turn back but the eighty-eights seemed to be everywhere. — Westrate, 1944
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  923. Although waste of resources, TT-26 was ahead of its time. Also, I think 10.5 cm Leichtgeschütz 40 is underrated. Austrians had those, not just the Fallschirmjäger.
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  924. They were competitors. Look at Zelensky, Navalny and Putin. Obviously, Putin is an invader, but ideologically, only about a few percent differences in taxation.
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  925. Austria experienced the strongest baby booms in Europe in the 1950s and 1960s. For comparison, Syria is currently the country with the highest population growth rate. Are women in these countries victims or not? If not, then women really love Nazis and muslims.
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  926. Slovaks are more nationalist than Czechs. In most countries, the Social Democrats have not been very nationalistic since the turn of the millennium.
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  927. Wiking took up defensive positions behind the Fiagdon river. Obersturmführer Tauno Pohjanlehto watches with his binoculars. Beautiful mountains. This will be easy to defend until Christmas. God help those who help themselves
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  928.  @erikjohansson4275  Myanmar and Mexico are known for their human rights, but not in a good way
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  929. @Funny Funny I use it to illustrate the multinational nature of a Waffen-SS combat unit. Churchill paid for Manstein's expenses, so he probably used the word to mean political and ideological leadership.
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  930. Vesa Keskinen is our most famous expat in Brazil. In 2007, the Mannerheim Cross Knights Foundation awarded a bronze Mannerheim statue in honor of the 90th anniversary of independence for, among other things, Vesa Keskinen's life's work and charity's work.
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  931. Although Quakers are Protestant and have gatherings, they have no priests. I found God while watching Richard Nixon drinking whiskey and talking about how homosexuality destroyed Greece 😆
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  932. How much did Dirlewanger plagiarize? Has his scientific research survived in Frankfurt?
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  933. Parts of the Wiking Division crossed the river when it had already been conquered. There were hundreds of bodies, mostly of German origin.
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  934. Compared to Europe, anti-Semitism was abandoned surprisingly late in the US. Pat Buchanan was a political commentator on the MSNBC network until 2012. To my recollection, Ben Shapiro said he would not kill baby Hitler, hinting to the fact that WW1 created Hitler.
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  935. Huh, comrade gamer. Why even be in NATO if you love them so much?
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  936.  @МихаилЧерников-п2т  If traitors are not included, brigadier general Aleksei Vinogradov and Major-General Ernst Schacht are my favorites. Vinogradov asked permission to withdraw at the right time, but was denied. They were young and talented officers under a repressive regime, both were posthumously rehabilitated.
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  937. Pretty much still in use https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripartism
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  938. Both Sukarno and Suharto appear to have been deep in collaboration with the Japanese. Suharto was a sergeant in the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army. He took the opportunity to join Japanese organised police, and was trained as a platoon commander.
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  939.  @rickbeniers667  Just as Prussian von der Goltz helped Finland get rid of the Russian regime during WW1/Civil War. Nikolai Nekrasov was the last Russian Governor-General of Finland. Rüdiger von der Goltz stayed with his troops in Finland until December 1918 representing German interests, and in practise ruled the country as a military dictator during this period. The Inter-Allied Commission of Control insisted that the German troops remain in the Baltic states to prevent the region from being re-occupied by the Red Army. After which C.G.E. Mannerheim was also a regent until the situation calmed down. Stalin executed Nikolai Nekrasov in the aftermath of the Winter war in 1940. Communists viewed Nekrasov as too liberal.
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  940.  @nottoday3817  It's a common misconception that Operation Barbarossa was launched from Vyborg. No, it started from the current border. Helsinki 1945 https://youtu.be/tT41pOtcmoY
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  941.  @Makapaa  https://www.sotapolku.fi/henkilot/smirnoff_lyyli_1919-05-07_salmi/
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  942. Well said. We fought the wrong enemy.
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  943. Huh wuf?
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  944. China entered (continued) a state of civil war in 1946. Then Indo-Pakistani War of 1947–1948. It didn't take long for the Allies to start a war with each other.
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  945. Did they knew it's going to be Soviet town? Among documents in the Stasi archives in Dresden is a letter from Putin asking for help from the Stasi boss with the installation of an informer's phone. Putin speaks better German than English.
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  946. Without downplaying what happened in Poland, one Finnish SS officer had almost the same name as Hans Landa. He hunted spies in North Ossetia–Alania. So. In reality, he said, "..as opposed to most German soldiers, I can think like a Muslim..." After the war, he became the CEO of a pension fund.
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  947. Savonian engineering from Vieremä. The municipality has a population of 3,670. Einari Vidgren (1943-2010) was a king in this county after inventing these machines: https://youtu.be/zzQfY3lFrw0
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  948. Pretty insignificant. Axis civilian losses accounted for only 4% of all ww2 losses. This includes two atomic bombs. Explain why the administration elected by voting was not radically different.
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  949. Just as much as the AOK Norwegen, and I don’t even claim they were incompetent. Italy was divided into three parts, a bit like America today. Political realists such as Giovanni Messe positioned themselves at the centre. They fought alongside the Allies from October 1943 onwards.
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  950.  @davidtuttle7556  The same could be said about the Red Army. Azeri, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek and Turkmen are not Slavic languages. They are Turkic languages, and Tajik has been considered to be a variety of Persian.
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  951.  B A  Ivan was a common name in the Finnish army. It was finnicized to Johannes/Jussi after WW2. https://www.sotapolku.fi/henkilot/?etunimet=Ivan Not to mention, the Field Army Bernolák was named after the first codifier of the literary Slovak language, which is a West Slavic language.
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  952.  B A  Azerbaijan alone was slightly larger than the Austrian and Finnish armies combined in the North. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazi_Aslanov
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  953. That's an unnecessarily generalizing video. Mortality was not the same in every country, even according to the official Allied narrative. If you look at the Austrian election results of 1945, they were center-leftist. People voted pretty much according to their social class. Junior conscripts were working class, thus voted for the Socialists. Ordinary men. Another question is how much of a barter-based economy was even possible to control.
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  954. Heinrich Severloh: brrrr brrrr brrr brrrt Harry S. Truman: I think you should join NATO
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  955.  Blesava Konjina  I don't think so, his death was an accident. That was the reason why he was demoted.
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  956.  @TheImperatorKnight  Malt loaf was more of a Swedish thing. I suspect it was hard as life. https://youtu.be/bSsb0m8hMwg.
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  957.  @TheImperatorKnight  Maybe it was imported from the UK.
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  958. Organizational psychopath
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  959. Maurice Gamelin is remembered for his disastrous command of the French military in WW2, but he actually graduated before WW1 in 1893. Finnish general Aksel Airo graduated from École Supérieure de Guerre in 1923. Post WW1 training in France was the best in the world.
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  960.  Kevin Davies  Actually, half of my comments are removed, so that’s not quite true. Churchill's fan boy Molyneux was also evicted.
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  961.  Kevin Davies  Fortunately, Peek oil philosopher is less self-centered, based in Kerala https://youtu.be/JZBv-WCnNnY
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  962. Iol as if People's Republic of Mozambique was any better. I wouldn't go back to the 1930s, but I would go back to the 1950s.
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  963. What if Nicholas II dies in a riding accident in 1914? Carl Gustaf Mannerheim becomes the regent of Russia. He maintains good relations with Germany and Austria-Hungary. Aleksei Nikolajevitš Romanov is crowned as Alexander IV in 1922.
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  964. I doubt that. The U.S. military was still heavily segregated in World War II. Black soldiers had to sometimes give up their seats in trains to the Nazi prisoners of war.
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  965. I'd like to hear more about Russian economy before or after Yakov Yurovsky executed Nicholas II. Tsardom: socialism takes hold.
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  966. If they were black, they couldn't be racist. lol. As I recall, 70% of Estonian Jews survived, even though it was declared "Judefrei".
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  967. ​ @noreply-7069  "So nobody falls for [propaganda] in the future". War is part of human nature. Perhaps a bigger mistake than believing propaganda was that Poland didn't ally with the Nazis.
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  968. Then supporting Axis would make the most sense, as the Communist fleet was minimal. Hitler would not sink his own cargo ships
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  969. You have a bit dim system. I vote for the Finns Party, which is nationalist and democratic socialist. I wouldn't know what to vote for in the USA.
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  970. Prinz Wolfgang Moritz von Hessen, the "King" of Finland. He didn't want to pose for the cameras. This is the only remaining photo of him from the Continuation War https://d1ddzfo1d7bgrb.cloudfront.net/aamulehti/23319628-800x_.jpg
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  971. Easy answer. Nothing. Their goal was to destroy Poland and Belarus, in which they succeeded. If it wasn't, we would speculate about the Operation Unthinkable happening in 1939.
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  972. I suspect a brigade is bigger and more balanced, but it varies from country to country
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  973. Although water supply and sanitation in Mexico is getting better, it's amusing how the mayor of Mexico city is a Jewish socialist. Neza (Mexico City) is considered dangerous, even by drug war-plagued Mexico's standards. While Mexico officially only saw a bit of aerial combat, thousands of Mexican servicemen did fight, wearing a uniform of the United States.
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  974. Relief
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  975. I don't mind calling everything right from ancap as socialism. After all, 1776 inspired the 1789 revolution. That being said, Christian conservatism is realism in Central Europe, in a good year.
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  976. Sounds like something Nelson Mandela would say, but then there was the Röhm Purge in 1934. It would be interesting to compare illuminated advertisements on the streets e.g. 1938 Moscow and Berlin. I think Moscow was darker.
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  977. Cold war propaganda, a.k.a the truth.
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  978. Neo-Nazism is a slightly different ideology because they are East Germans, Slovaks, Finns or even Russians
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  979. "Will you to the utmost of your power maintain in the United Kingdom the Protestant Reformed Religion established by law?" I'm not complaining, but that sounds like religion 😆😆
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  980. Crazy photo by the way, if you search "George Edward Huthsteiner". Finnish, German, Italian, French, American and Japanese in front of Lenin's statue in Finnish occupied Petrozavodsk 2 October 1942. Lastly, Max von Hellens from St. Petersburg, with a map in his hand. This is how data is leaked. At least the British are absent from this meeting
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  981. Would you say that Mauno Koivisto was one of the good guys? According to Koivisto, they succeeded pushing Soviets back in August 1944.
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  982. Talking about moral bankruptcy. Neo-nazis like you should not be allowed to vote.
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  983. Liberation or not, Southeast Asian leaders did collaborate extensively with the Japanese army. When I visited the Philippines in 2010, I went to an expat bar. Lo and behold, there was a Japanese elderly, sitting alone, who looked like about 88yo. Bartender said, he didn’t want to talk to anyone. I can totally understand why, if he was Hiro Onoda. Fortunately, his wife Machie had arranged a US$10,000 scholarship donation on his behalf to the local school there. However, you are right that Douglas MacArthur is still popular in the Philippines.
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  984. More specifically, Poland and the Soviet Union, many nations of which were non-Slavic. Slovakia, Serbia and Russian immigrants were allies of Germany. Certainly rape occurred according to the present definition. In the United States, for example, marital rape was not a crime.
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  985. Including Kosovo?
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  986.  @juliancate7089  I asked because it is by no means unusual to call KFOR as murderers. The German soldiers were received as liberators by the ethnic Albanian inhabitants.
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  987.  @juliancate7089  President? You mean Harry S. Truman. Yeah, we were lucky that he didn't declare war on Finland. On the last day of the war a Finnish Colonel shared cigarettes with two German officers. The officers saluted each other and went their ways.
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  988. Interestingly, German forces declared Rome, Florence, Chieti and Athens open cities. I understand Athens was never friendly, so it could have been leveled as a parking lot.
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  989. More like Leonid Breznev and Indira Gandhi
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  990. Hahha funny history channel..Hitler № 3... 😁 https://youtu.be/WsSGmTFBtiA
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  991.  @millennialwatchman6703  In the middle of nowhere, Medvezhyegorsk was occupied by the Finnish Army until 23 June 1944. The Nazies still had troops in Finland, Italy and Norway in April, 1945. I can understand why Göring would consider the Bulge as a turning point. Definitely not a cake walk for the Allies.
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  992. I don’t think any explanation is needed for a quick bombing. The number of casualties was relatively small, because thousands of civilians had fled to safer parts. General Winkelman surrendered shortly afterwards at Rijsoord.Dutch capitulation was signed on 15 May. They understood this and joined the Nazis in tens of thousands. Lots of drama for nothing. If some reason needs to be invented, then I say, a show of force. Dutch troops in the province of  Zealand  continued to resist the  Wehrmacht  until 17 May.
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  993. The problem with his definition is that Yiddish is classified as Germanic, so in my opinion, National Socialism = Religious-Socialism.
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  994.  @jakubwedrowycz8791  It may be true, but it is not good to advertise drugs to young people, even though those born in the 1920s did well in life and rebuilt Europe after the war.
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  995.  @kederuser7649  Hiccups of industrialization: Civil wars and wars between nations. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declarations_of_war_during_World_War_II
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  996. AIV fodder?
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  997. It would be interesting to hear the definition of Nazi, nazbol or Neo-Nazi. What is your excuse for extensive cooperation and, ultimately, even a defense alliance with the Nazis: Such as Kurt Kiesinger, Kurt H. Debus, Hans Speidel and Helmut Schmidt. Schmidt served on the Leningrad front. To my understanding, the total number of Axis troops in the East was less than 10 million. After all, Finland was at war with the Nazi Germany until the 1950s, with actual booby trap casualties. Nuremberg trials didn't recognize the scorched earth policy as a war crime in Lapland. Finnish Counterintelligence Agent, lieutenant Igor Vahroméjev was born in Leningrad. Later, he worked in the Finno-Soviet Friendship Committee, thus also awarded in the USSR. He died in Helsinki, 1996. https://sotapolku.fi/henkilot/vahros_igor_07.01.1917_helsinki/
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  998.  @MrKakibuy  Interesting how a simple question gets people upset. Well, a couple of questions.
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  999.  @MrKakibuy  Katrin Himmler married an Israeli Jew and gave birth to a son. Meanwhile, there is no Finnish Wikipedia page for the term Judeo-Christian. Let's keep it that way.
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  1000.  @MrKakibuy  I say Catholicism is mainstream in the EU. Marginal groups have the right to exist.
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  1001. From what I have read, Britain was a liberal society, not a laissez faire economy. Take a look at wikipedia: "List of Allied traitors during World War II". However, he is right that no one wanted to join the Red Army as a infantry soldier. The USSR was pretty backward country. Here in Finland, Ahti Myrsky was a socialist member of the City Council of Helsinki. He was placed in a penal battalion from which he escaped. Ahti Myrsky was taken prisoner by the reds and was used as slave labor to which he perished in 1942.
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  1002.  @janjordy  This operation took place in 1946. Clearly most of Europe was communist. The Labour Party, led by Attlee won a landslide victory.
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  1003. Jorge Ubico was a logistics genius. On 9 December 1941, Guatemala declared war on Japan, and three days later, it declared war on Germany and Italy. Ubico believed that he resembled Bonaparte, and his nickname was "the Little Napoleon of the Tropics". In 1940 Guatemala had a population of 2.4 million. No casualties were reported, excluding clashes between protesters and the military.
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  1004. You must be Finnish. I don't even know she's a woman.
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  1005.  @Siegbert85  There is no grammatical gender in Finnish; nor are there any articles. Shouldn’t you automatically know that Mercedes is masculine and BMW motorbike is feminine.
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  1006. Lost victories is actually a good title because they killed more enemies in Stalingrad as well. Does the city have any practical significance? No. I am not claiming that the SS troops consist solely of good people, but I claim they were professional killers.
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  1007. In my opinion, all European cities can be included in this list, including Berlin.
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  1008. SS-captain Jouko Itälä trained troops in Norway to fight against Mannerheim. This guy should have lost his rank and pension. Papers stamped in 1976, says "Special mission". Yeah right. Coup d'état. He was CEO of hand sanitizer company. Very fitting for a nazi. In 2015 Norwegian conglomerate  Orkla  acquired Cederroth.
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  1009. Debates over the English language: Are linear, straight and cisgender synonym?
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  1010. 🇫🇮National Veterans' Day for all the war veterans of Finland and Nordic volunteers 🍺 🍺 Cheers! On 27 April 1945 1:30pm, Colonel Oinonen greeted two Oberleutnants who crossed the Norwegian border, ending WW2 in Finland.
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  1011. The SS was not criminalized. Joachim Peiper and Felix Steiner were acquitted, as were many others.
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  1012. ​ @archangelapache2953 I think more about practice than theology. Before the revolution, Lutheran practices were no different from Catholics. Finns and Filipinos eat ham on Christmas Day. Of course there are small differences, like Thanksgiving in America. If it were up to me, Thanksgiving would be celebrated more widely than just at the US embassy.
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  1013. A symbol on the screen had the audience peeing their pants 😁
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  1014.  @hq3473  Actually, it was the Communists, who routinely criticised the first federal border guard unit as a reincarnation of Hitler's SS. Nordland fighters came partly outside the current EU, but they were indeed a multinational group.
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  1015. LBJ? E. Howard Hunt?
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  1016. In practice, the difference with modern times is that a larger number of people decide how to allocate resources. There is no such thing as a pure market economy. The army goes where the Marshal's sword points, as we say. https://youtu.be/I4PIlf8qrm8
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  1017. Sweden would have been significant, Churchill knew, too.
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  1018. Former enemies Arno von Lenski and Rudolf Bamler
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  1019. They were Co-belligerent Army and perhaps momentarily allied
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  1020. This is definitely the right channel for you
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  1021.  @devnull436  Toivo Vaaramo (orig. Warzabu), a Polish Jew, served in the Finnish SS Battalion and was promoted to lieutenant. He was wounded many times, died in hospital and was buried in western Finland. I am not claiming anything about popular sentiment, but this kind of thing happened too. https://www.sotapolku.fi/henkilot/vaaramo_toivo-perttuli_1920-09-30_seinajoki/
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  1022. The Czechs were subjugated by the Allies, so what’s the problem. Last time I visited Prague, a man was selling cocaine next to a police car. I'm completely happy with my life away from "civilization"
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  1023. Islam made up 50% of the total population in 1991 based on the 1984 census commissioned by the Derg regime.
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  1024. He has a pretty narrow definition of Nazis. I consider Catholic Kurt Waldheim to be at least a neo-Nazi.
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  1025. Parts of Nazism would still be radical, but after 89 years I think of them as conservatives. Kurt Waldheim and Helmut Schmidt were no longer radical youth in the 1990s.
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  1026. Btw. The Defeated (Shadowplay) is a good show. Explains why the financial punishment of civilians was ended and the men were released from prison. They kind of implemented socialism also in the West in 1945-47. In 1947, JCS 1067 was replaced by JCS 1779, which instead stated that "An orderly, prosperous Europe requires the economic contributions of a stable and productive Germany".
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  1027.  @auguststorm2037  Italy vs. Germany was brutal
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  1028. I'd say Erkki Raappana was a lost victor. Basically, woke crowd canceled him in 1952. Mauno Koivisto and Lauri Törni served under Raappana.
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  1029.  @seththomas9105  Nuclear weapons can be used, but then you have to attack through a radiating crater. That’s why jujutsu is a thing. These horses survived at least all the way to the sausage factory, which is kind of a miracle: https://youtu.be/bVGAH1ckIxo
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  1030. Siege of Leningrad is bad, but Stalingrad is good for some reason. When are you going to address the clean Red army myth. "it was not disclosed that simultaneously with entering into and ratification of the Treaty, a secret additional protocol had been signed which determined the spheres of interest of the signatories from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea and from Finland to Bessarabia." -Chairman of the Supreme Council of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev
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  1031. He also opposed the helmet that was introduced in East Germany.
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  1032.  snowy the snowman  I think he meant Gustav II. He certainly influenced on the extent of Protestantism to this day.
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  1033.  @seinine  It would be interesting to hear what kind and where such a country is or has been or would be.
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  1034.  @seinine  Libertarianism in practice
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  1035.  @koniux27  In a way, civilized anarchists are called libertarians. e.g. Yangon vs. Hong Kong.
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  1036.  @koniux27  By anarchy I mean uncivilized and unhealthy lifestyles. Myanmar’s militias are still flooding Asia with meth.
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  1037. Pakistan has both a nuclear weapon and incredible logistics. After partition the British Indian Army was divided between the new Indian Army and the Pakistan Army. https://youtu.be/YlPyaOESM6M
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  1038. I remember seeing slogan, "Jesus is coming, are you ready" in the early 1990s. In Finland, the term free church (Vapaakirkko) means Protestant denomination that is not part of the Church of Finland.
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  1039. Perhaps 400,000 in the spring of 1943, when the Finnish front had come to a standstill and not yet US troops in Europe. Morgenbladet says 358K in may 1945. Makes sense. Why go to Berlin, since the eastern front was in Lyngen.
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  1040. Community support vs.. https://youtu.be/FwYxkZ9jTvk
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  1041. After all, numbers don’t matter. You have to defend yourself. I got on the bus in front of my home, and I asked the driver where he was from. He answered, from St. Petersburg. If someone says Eastern Finland is not Eastern Europe, he is wrong.
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  1042.  @useodyseeorbitchute9450  Jesus, use some punctuation
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  1043. The leader gives his group food first and eats himself last. This cost him time, not lot of money.
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  1044. Probably happened in 1941. The Nazis caught millions of prisoners. I'm pretty sure you will become a cannibal while under siege. It’s even crazier not to do anything.
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  1045. English is not my first language either. Draw your own conclusions about the circumstances of that time.
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  1046.  @vandenberg298  It would make sense to tie the tax rate to gun ownership. If the tax rate is 30, then 30 percent of the people would get a gun license. In a libertarian society, there would be only crossbows and swords, excluding field cannons of the armed forces.
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  1047.  Tom Butthurt  Americanization is not the end of the world. Also in Finland, Finns are not currently in the government, but Swedes are in power with less than 5% of the vote.
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  1048. Germany did not drop bombs on London, but merely airlifted food to starving civilians. Edit: This is sarcasm
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  1049. People say Joseph Goebbels was short and Former Emperor of Japan was tall, although they are the same height. As if the Germans should be tall.
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  1050. Nazi Germany was so massive that I don't count it as one unit. Gebirgsjäger troops were certainly at the top of their field.
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  1051. Of course, a person who speaks Russian and German is more helpful than someone monolingual. Salomon Altschuler, a jew from Vyborg, spoke German and Finnish. In his own words, "unfortunately, I acted as an interpreter for a German officer."
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  1052.  @troystocker6179  I just watched Prince Philip: The War Years from 1995. He said, Japan did not surrender after the nuclear bombs, but by order of the emperor. Even after that Taiwanese and Japanese rogue soldiers (holdouts) thought it was Allied propaganda.
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  1053.  @wesjanson6979  If a bit whataboutism is allowed, I want to ask: Have you ever heard of Operation Searchlight?
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  1054.  @guidobolke5618  I wouldn't say deep disdain for science, but advances in understanding inheritance continued throughout the 20th century. I'm pretty sure that the Britons gathered the souls of Englishmen from Africa and Australia.
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  1055.  Eisen Chao  On the morning of 22 November 1944, General John Carl Murchie told McNaughton that his policies had failed and hardly any of the 60,000 men were volunteering to "go active", which McNaughton recalled "was like a blow to the stomach". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_Crisis_of_1944
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  1056.  @verbalwhale  The Red Army entered Pyongyang in 1945. Kim Il-sung was a rising star inside the Communist bloc. Maybe quote him instead of Leon Trotsky?
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  1057. "We played three games in Vantaa, Lappeenranta and Lahti. I saw that the Finnish grocery store sold bananas, oranges, mandarins in November - supplies I had never seen in my life." Igor Larionov, 1977
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  1058.  @TheImperatorKnight  Ironically, we are socialists because the Germans lost WW2. Former Prime Minister and SDP Chairman Paavo Lipponen was target of manipulation by the GDR's intelligence service Stasi. However, some countries, such as Romania, Hungary and Yugoslavia did not starve, when there was mixed economy.
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  1059. I'm not sure if the eracdication of native americans is an exact expression. You know, George Armstrong Custer did not survive. Montana and Wyoming are still largely uninhabited. To my understanding Wooden Leg died of natural caused during the WW2 in 1940. I recommend Jocko podcast 45 - about Wooden Leg.
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  1060. Mortality was quite low during the Operation Nordlicht (1944–45), which could have evolved into a new Stalingrad. They pretty much flattened half of Finland. Wood gas truck @3:09 https://youtu.be/_E9NU3mclCU
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  1061.  @SmotritelMayaka29  Finland was less motorized and still won
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  1062. Have you thought that it is possible to bombard intentionally and change your mind afterwards. "We fought the wrong enemy."
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  1063. Fair enough 😁
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  1064. Socialism doesn't work because the Germans took all the barbed wire.
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  1065. German propaganda or German facts? Would you change your life after reading something on the internet?
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  1066. In Singapore, the tax burden equals 12.6 percent of GDP. You say PM Lawrence Wong is just like Hitler?
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  1067. They only signed a non-aggression pact. I think it’s better to appease Americans, and then call a nuclear strike to Moscow.
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  1068.  @schwarzerhaufen1727  I have read it (Tällainenko on ihminen), an impressive piece of work. However, he was by no means an innocent civilian. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0117959/ I think the pianist is also a serious film, no matter what you think of the director.
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  1069.  @drinksnapple8997  Germany won WW2..BOOM 😂
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  1070.  @jamestheotherone742  Was Orwell red pilled?
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  1071.  @jamestheotherone742  I could certainly vote for the "Old Covenant" Social Democrats. They still exist under different names, with the exception of Smer-SD in Slovakia.
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  1072.  @andro7862  This siege lasted longer than the Battle of Berlin. So this is the End of WW2 in Europe. All topics are covered.
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  1073. I couldn't find any divisional insignia, but in general their uniforms seem secondhand, which might be appropriate for a penal unit. Actual finnish nazis had dotted camouflage pattern (for example, Rolf Labbart). An SS man wouldn't surrender in the first place.
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  1074. Not true. In a split decision, Hirohito decided to surrender. Half of the generals wanted to continue the war. They could easily have continued for weeks.
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  1075. He is a populist. It seems to me that "violation of good manners" is prohibited in Russia. Moscow's Stalin-Themed Kebab Shop Purged Within 24 Hours Of Launch https://www.rferl.org/amp/russia-moscow-kebab-stalin-public-outcry/31042334.html
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  1076.  @nottoday3817  Colonialism is the prevailing state of affairs that is useless to complain about. Although I support border control, I do not believe we can restore racial segregation. Especially the complaints of mixed-race people seems to be a mental health problem.
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  1077.  @n00btotale  Nor would I use the term bourgeoisie to describe the Winter War veterans.
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  1078. Under what law is it a crime?
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  1079.  @auguststorm2037  This particular legislation has changed dratically since WW2. Among the last Western European countries to decriminalise adultery were Switzerland (1989), and Austria (1997). In other words, an extramarital relationship with a married Austrian woman was a crime regardless of the circumstances.
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  1080. China invaded Vietnam in 1979, which is why Vietnamese like Americans. This can lead to problems if you don’t know the history.
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  1081. What about Italy, Slovakia, Serbia, Japan and Thailand? To me, there is already too much multiculturalism, less would be enough. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_cultural_mandates
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  1082.  @haroldfiedler6549  Basically, they target foreigners who don’t have a Thai work permit. To my recollection, some Russian couple was fined for lewd conduct.
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  1083. That is a good question. Probably more like Hungary (mixed) than North Korea. Pretty high quality products at least when it comes to car brands. On the other hand, 1-2% of the population was subject to confiscation.
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  1084.  @llllib  That is why I sympathize with them. In my own village, the last land battle ended in 1808. https://sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaget_vid_Toivala
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  1085.  @ostiariusalpha  If you calculate patents and university degrees per citizen, the result is different. All BRICS countries were part of the Allies of WW2.
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  1086.  @ostiariusalpha  In a way, it does affect. British Raj lasted until 1947. West Berlin became autonomous in 1949, de facto independed in 1951. Bangok, Rome, Vienna and Helsinki became independent. Taiwan was one of the winners but was driven out of China, so they became losers.
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  1087. Actually, the Austrians had no trouble near the Arctic Circle due to better food. Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 48° north passes through: France, Stalingrad, Minnesota etc. Basically, the Germans starved to death in Stalingrad. Children's Christmas party near the Arctic Circle in 1943: https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HH0Ni1_ItQ4/XES7cPqs7WI/AAAAAAAACWM/LQhin_txu30zRwu37HA2Q8C3xA68uJIywCLcBGAs/s1600/0290_00017.jpg
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  1088. I can imagine you burning Škodas in Berlin like a boss. Yeesees. Antifa time.
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  1089.  @jamesmortimer4016  Well maybe they were some other group. Berlin is a big city.
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  1090.  @jamesmortimer4016  TIK is also right that they are the largest army, not a partisan group. Tito was born in Austria-Hungary and served in WW1, where he learned discipline
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  1091. So you claim, Stalin was just a dumb bunny.
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  1092.  @thomasengel7062  I understand he mentioned the European Crusade, but technological development, imperialism and nationalism were the driving forces. Somewhat like drinking milk is not related to the Nazis, even though everyone drinks milk.
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  1093. I would appease Hitler by stopping arms shipments to Britain. If that wasn't enough, I would send weapons to Germany. Dönitz would not sink his own ships, so that would guarantee peace in the Atlantic. The US had no colonies in North Africa, so I would ignore them. Also, I'm ignoring the Japanese mainland. Maybe I'll help the Philippines if I'm in the mood. In the worst case, Hitler invents a nuclear weapon and appoints Putin as his successor.
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  1094. I think the Einsatzgruppen series on Netflix is ​​fairly balanced. They were not SJWs. The Slavs in German uniforms were probably ostlegionen. There are also documentaries on YouTube, for example about Biafra, a member of the Commonwealth. https://youtu.be/7JCvIvb8PpY
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  1095.  @caryblack5985  Jocko Podcast 85
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  1096. The British Empire may have been the most backward at that time. This is highly apparent in the downtown Helsinki, which was rebuilt in the neoclassical style to resemble Saint Petersburg. Although a propaganda video, people and buildings are genuine. Less than a year after the execution of the Romanov family, the order has been restored: https://youtu.be/Wcfy0VIXGdE
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  1097. Obviously, blue on blue is not unusual. However, fragging is the deliberate killing or attempted killing by a soldier of a fellow soldier, usually a superior officer. Did fragging occur within the Axis forces, or were they more cohesive than other countries? Excluding the forced side switching.
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  1098.  @Normalguy1690  Their appreciation was slightly lower. Perhaps over time, some foreigners would have been promoted, after all, Hitler was a foreigner. There were no Austrian Marshals though.
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  1099. Amen. You are the only one with more than two brain cells.
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  1100. How do you explain that Stalin was a member of the Social Democratic Party? Was he initially a capitalist and then a "real" socialist? https://histdoc.net/history/stalin1917.html
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  1101. You don't have to imagine. Take a look "Shopping for Llmas in Bolivia". More than 80% identify themselves as indigenous.
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  1102.  @scotttracy9333  That is also a historical distortion. Chamberlain was clearly a hawk, but not as crazy as Churchill.
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  1103. This is not football, this is biathlon. No shame in silver : )
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  1104. WASP culture still exists, this is not it. I'm fine with the aliens.
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  1105.  @MpowerdAPE  I am a Protestant of Finnish background, and here for the debate. I prefer older documentaries, which you can still watch on DVD. Ancient Aliens were made to appease the BLM rioters.
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  1106. Races don't exist if you ask TIK.
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  1107.  B A  It was a different generation because the ceasefire agreement specifically ordered demobilization. The so-called children's crusade was more like a police operation. The Soviet Union also had no resources to trap them, so some 200,000 Germans left Finland unharmed.
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  1108.  @artiombeknazaryan7542  But rarely does anyone feel sorry for an enemy, except in this case: https://lyricstranslate.com/en/raatteentie-raate-road.html
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  1109.  @simplicius11  "Where did they found weapons" Maybe it was the Lend-Lease policy. Btw. East Karelia voted in favor of secession from Soviet Russia. Apparently Finland did not support enough the rebels because minister responsible for border control was assassinated by an extremist group. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_intervention_in_the_Russian_Civil_War
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  1110.  @WandererRTF  "In fact this victory was a moral defeat. Our people certainly never got knowledge of it because we never told them the truth." -Nikita Khrushchev
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  1111.  @jasongibson5625  Perhaps there is an ulterior motive behind such an assertion, that the subsequent alliance with Germany was a mistake because the cattle shelters and medieval buildings of Vyborg were not worth it. Luftwaffe practically saved democracy in Finland in the summer of 1944. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Kuhlmey
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  1112.  @softstone125  Finns also had an unwritten Bushido rule that surrender is not an option, but they always try to get out of the trap immediately as it forms instead of waiting for salvation.
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  1113.  @Contagious93812  Operation Barbarossa literally began at the present state border, it has not moved anywhere. Petsamo (population 3188) was annexed to Finland in 1920 and rightly belongs to Russia. If that is winning, then I don't want to know what happens when the Soviets lose.
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  1114. Good point. Encyclopaedia Britannica: "the civil ceremony was carried out in the Chancellery bunker on April 29"
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  1115. You can always guess by their last name, but I don't think they were publicly Jewish, except for 300 soldiers in Finland. Erhard Milch must have been half Jewish. List of Nazis of non-Germanic descent https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nazis_of_non-Germanic_descent
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  1116. For example, Jakobsson is a well-known Jewish family from Vyborg, but this is mere guesswork. Interestingly, I found my name (x3) on the SS men's list, but they were by no means close relatives : ) https://www.genealogia.fi/hakem/luettelo065s.htm
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  1117.  @dragosstanciu9866  That's what I thought, but then I came across the Operation Searchlight. Yahya Khan is reported to have said "Kill three million of them, and the rest will eat out of our hands." He participated in the Mediterranean theatre of WW2 on behalf of Great Britain's British Indian Army.
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  1118.  @dragosstanciu9866  WW2 is quite irrelevant to Germany. 1940 and 1950 Demographics are the same. If the Nazies had won, the only difference would be Hitler’s portrait on banknotes.
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  1119.  @dragosstanciu9866  Compare to the BRICS members. Only 15 good years in Russian history.
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  1120. Although I agree with you, the Democratic Party is a bit more critical of Israel. However, I would not call it anti-Semitism or National Socialism. It’s amazing how Noam Chomsky is practically more right-wing than me. On the other hand, his net worth is estimated to be around $6 Million as of 2022.
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  1121. Gangs of New York does an excellent job portraying life as it was in New York. https://youtu.be/43RLxE_6jOQ
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  1122. Turku is located on the west coast of Finland and was bombed 61 times in 1939-40. The city is officially bilingual. The British Royal Air Force bombed Malmö and Lund in 1940 and 1943. Unlike the British, who apologized, the USSR had no desire to acknowledge its fault. An examination of the shells with Cyrillic lettering revealed that the raid on Stockholm (1944) had been carried out by Soviet aircraft.
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  1123.  @Nick-os3vz  A bit like renting an apartment. Hourly hotels are more expensive than townhouses. There has long been a rumor circulating in Finland that soldiers are being fed berry jelly to prevent homosexuality. Vaccines are indeed given by soaking the medicine into a piece of sugar.
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  1124. Colonel James H. Magill arrived to Finland in 1944. The Americans had severed diplomatic relations, so they had no representative until March 1945. Porkkala Naval Base was a Soviet naval base operational since 1944 on the Porkkala peninsula, 30 kilometers (19 mi) west of Helsinki, the Finnish capital. The Red army had a division in Lapland until the autumn of 1945, so it was very difficult to start anything. However, we had 14 748 leftover Panzerschrecks and 21 912 Panzerfaust.
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  1125. What was Stalin's excuse for saving Ferdinand Schörner, the last Commander-in-chief of the German Army?
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  1126. These are difficult to calculate because the legislation was/is more relaxed in the East. For example, marital rape and prostitution are tolerated in Russia. In essence, the gap in living standards is still noticeable, albeit narrowed.
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  1127.  @nunoamaro6518  If we use historical law as a scale, then homosexual and extramarital relationships were also criminal
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  1128.  @pellejoens7886  That’s why I used the word “tolerated”.You haven’t traveled much if you think Finland is centrist.
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  1129.  @pellejoens7886  Well, they had Hertta Kuusinen. Now we have Sanna Marin.
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  1130. Replace the 2021 army with 1989 Afghan army. Give them Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit, Stryker etc. That's a more realistic comparison.
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  1131. National socialism does not refer to any particular nationality. Joe Biden is Irish catholic. LA is mostly Hispanic White. Perhaps correct term is Falangism. Although the Blue Division pledged personal loyalty to Adolf Hitler, they were unconcerned about racial purity. With the exception of monarchies (constitutional and absolute), almost all parties are Republicans. If you are not a Republican, you are most certainly a fascist.
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  1132.  @jerrychen6610  That's why I said Falangism. At least from a European perspective, Biden is not particularly socialist, but it remains to be seen
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  1133. Amirhan Abishev Family slays, kindred kills, old Finnish saying. However, it is worth remembering that the United States and Finland have never waged war.
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  1134.  @michem710  Because they don't mind. TIK just put it more politely. Up to 63,000 people, mostly women, were sterilised under a racial purity programme approved by the state until 1976.
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  1135.  @michem710  After the war many nazis fled to Sweden due to the heightened political repression in Finland. SS-"lieutenant colonel" Kalervo Kurkiala retired in Filipstad, Sweden. Lauri Törni also fled to Latin America via Sweden.
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  1136.  @michem710  In the case of Kurkiala, several publishers since he was also part of the army cadre.
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  1137.  @TheImperatorKnight  I’m not extreme leftist, but I too have boundaries. Watch Canis lupus and Canis lupus familiaris. Exactly the same species, completely different behavior. Also, a pet rat behaves creepily when it is left untreated.
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  1138.  @dragosstanciu9866  Just watched a Vietnamese channel. In a way, most came back like India, except Southeast Asia is a completely separate entity. One reason may be that their accent is difficult to understand. However, you are right that as a result the USA became dominant, and still is. Britain is a spiritual leader a bit like the Vatican.
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  1139. @lati long Losses in Italy were relatively smaller than in France. In that sense, joining Axis was the right choice for them. Get Woke, Go Broke is true in many cases.
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  1140.  @TheImperatorKnight  Well, you could be a Liberal Conservative. The opposite of Conservative is radical. Or do you want a radical ancap revolution?
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  1141. Another question is, why did the British ally with people like Jürgen Bennecke, Johann von Kielmansegg and Ernst Ferber. The USSR was not going to do an amphibious attack on the Port of Liverpool. The Cold War is only an excuse, because Finland, Austria, Switzerland and Ireland are non-NATO partners.
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  1142. Lauri Törni: "Hold my beer"
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  1143.  @TheIfifi  Törni escaped on a submarine to Germany, in january 1945.
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  1144.  @TheIfifi  My grandfather went home. Much of the Finnish Army was demobilized. https://youtu.be/DlUe2jRwZr0
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  1145. However, they could be temporarily in danger of being thrown into the river, making the order logical. Certainly lack of ammunition was by no means unusual. Medical battalion and veterinary department could be without rifles? Finns famously had Italian rifles of the wrong caliber, which they then threw away after obtaining better compatible weapons.
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  1146. Well, one should know at least the most important declarations of war during WW2. There was really only one massive clash in Finland; the battle of Tali-Ihantala in the summer of 1944. I have at hand mostly fiction, except for the Mannerheim Memoirs I and II in Finnish. Also in Finnish, Decisive moments of Finland from the years of destiny 1939-1945 (printed in France 2006). Born a Soldier: The Times and Life of Larry A Thorne by J Michael Cleverley (e-book). So that's my specialty.
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  1147. However, this also happened: Finns investigate the remains of an encircled German battalion near Tornio https://is.mediadelivery.fi/img/978/244791e27f4747c081a684d20ef43d2c.jpg.webp
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  1148. However, this does not reinforce the libertarian perspective. Finland had lower taxation than the UK, but was technologically backward. Only after taxes rose to about a third (of GDP) did Nokia thrive. In 2002, plunged into stagnation as borders opened up and taxation rose further.
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  1149. That's dangerous whataboutism. The bombing of Stockholm is actually controversial because they had a Soviet prisoner. Helsinki and specifically Åland is on the same line, so it could also be a navigation error.
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  1150. Swiss Armed Forces (1964)...If only I had a time machine
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  1151. We had an Afghan refugee center next to a chemical plant. Fortunately, the refugee center was closed.
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  1152. I would like to see a prequel to the Rambo series. Rambo begins: Operation Shining Brass. Deepfake Sylvester Stallone on Chris Hemsworth's face or whoever is fit enough. Jason Clarke as Lauri Törni.
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  1153. Fuhrer would probably be a former Gestapo agent driving a ZiL limousine and wearing ray-ban sunglasses.
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  1154.  @derekbaker3279  But you wouldn't know about it. Historians would say, "Axis crimes were minimal compared to allied crimes." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_graves_in_Chechnya#/media/File%3AMass_grave_in_Chechnya.jpg
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  1155. Anarchy is unnatural, that's why a lot of drugs are needed to maintain the anarchy.
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  1156. Kuusamo was taken and plundered by Soviet 205th Division on September 27, 1944. Interestingly, they recorded in a diary what they stole. Among other things, they took 215 railway carriages and 200 tons of oats. Fortunately, residents had been evacuated, so large-scale rape was avoided. The division began to withdraw back to the USSR in November 1944.
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  1157. Obviously, Chamberlain's biggest mistake was to declare war on Germany. They didn't save anyone but prolonged the war
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  1158.  @czechpatriot2230  Nor did he declare war at the beginning of the Winter War, forcing Finland to join the Axis forces, thus giving Blenheim production to Germany.
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  1159. Oic..Pilecki was a Karelian of Polish origin. He seems to be a Republican.
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  1160.  @TheImperatorKnight  We’ve all met women who are specifically looking for men like this, so it’s not just Stockholm syndrome. And I’m not claiming that all women are like that: https://youtu.be/LmqCtZSsQ-M
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  1161. Interestingly, Nazi propaganda mentions language difficulties. At least three languages ​​were spoken in one battalion alone. How well do Scandinavians understand each other? Personally, I can say that I understand very little about Estonian.
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  1162. Yes, they were smart. Anatomically modern humans were smart, but then there is also cultural evolution. With the benefit of hindsight, we know what Hitler knows and what has happened since 1945.
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  1163.  @360Nomad  Depends on nationality and situation. Surprisingly, in Lapland, they did not destroy churches in 1945. Perhaps they had finally found Christianity.
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  1164. This is probably the most amusing song of "cursed" holdouts: https://youtu.be/5U1SO3ddgdM
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  1165.  trainbomb  Post-war Poland was also anti-Russian and still is. Why else would they have joined NATO?
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  1166.  @valaudae1809  Meetvursti sold in supermarkets will often say "may contain horse meat" as a precaution due to this. As if they did not know for sure : )
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  1167. I would not question the orders 😆, if they threatened to take my donuts
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  1168. Jocko would say, this guy is too detached
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  1169.  @radomirpetrovic2457  Interestingly, the same debate is ongoing with the ISIS prisoners. At least in the modern times, the left-wing parties are in favor of better treatment for the Finnish ISIS women. The rest of the people do not feel sympathy for them.
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  1170.  @simplicius11  Finland was already "judenfrei" before the war, so there was never any public hostility towards the Jews. On the other hand, General der Waffen-SS Felix Steiner did not allow his troops to execute the Commissar order. He faced charges at the Nuremberg Trials, but they were dropped and he was released in 1948. In that sense, the Finnish and German military operations had similar undertone.
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  1171.  @vantuz8264  Exactly. I thought the same way, but I do not always say out loud what I think. In a true democracy, the vote of a white man would have no value. Such a society has never been achieved. In reality, democracy means a fenced complex of buildings containing a number of individually owned apartments or houses. Criteria for the definition of "people having the right of self-determination" was proposed during 2010 Kosovo case decision of the International Court of Justice: 1. traditions and culture 2. ethnicity 3. historical ties and heritage 4. language 5. religion 6. sense of identity or kinship 7. the will to constitute a people 8. common suffering.
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  1172.  @beefy1212  I said "no value", because self-determination is not mathematically possible. Direct democracy is also called pure democracy. Majority of currently established democracies are representative democracies. A bit like European migrants in China or wherever.
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  1173. @botiboy It's worth exploring the life of Urho Kekkonen if you think of these calculations (from 2008) as Cold War propaganda. For example, The Manchurian Candidate (1962 film) was censored in Finland.
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  1174. "Any criminal offence which is perceived by the victim or any other person, to be motivated by hostility or prejudice, based on a person's...race or perceived race" What is wrong with "Thou shalt not kill". The Crown Prosecution Service is as crazy as Himmler. I recommend the victim's family to feel themselves as members of the African race.
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  1175.  @stevehomeier8368  "500,000 Soviet reservists captured while still mobilizing."... When the one with the rifle gets killed, the one who is following picks up the rifle and shoots!
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  1176.  @petervote7914  Interestingly, SS-Hauptscharführer  Erich von der Heyde was acquitted at the IG Farben Trial. In those days, bookkeepers were not considered criminals.
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  1177. These people were mistakenly executed as spies in the Irafsky district, December 31, 1942: (Vladimir) Sandirovitsh Hamitsajev (born 1926), Sandir Orazmagovitsh Hamitsajev (born 1888), Danil Orazmagovitsh Hamitsajev (born 1890), Gubu Hortijev and Dumbul Ivanovitsh Gabejev. Two were Red Army soldiers: Sergeant Jevgeni Durnev and private Anatoli Malyshenko. According to SS-Rottenführer (Corporal) Paavo Merelä, the execution was ordered by the Finnish company commander, SS-Hauptsturmführer (Captain) Karl-Erik Ladau (1916-2009). There is no other evidence of his involvement.
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  1178. Huh, bombing? Åland is not part of Sweden 😂
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  1179.  @Hellforsa  Amazing history. My village in Finland was spared because it was too sparsely populated at the time. A very long time since the last fight: https://sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaget_vid_Toivala
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  1180. Oddly enough, that WW1 captain later turned his sled 180 degrees. About 8,000 Japanese people held jobs related to the Korean War, most of them in ports preparing for the transporting of American troops. In the US, the war was initially described by President Harry S. Truman as a "police action".
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  1181.  @mdhofstee  Another question is whether the invasion made sense. After all, only a few ships were originally sunk. How much their society really changed?
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  1182.  @mdhofstee  My surname is in the SS roster, but they are not blood relatives, my father was adopted.
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  1183. ​ @TheImperatorKnight To be fair, Ike was a candidate in the 1952 election. Mannerheim's ghostwriters thought the Waffen-SS battalion "had fought bravely, scorning death".
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  1184. For English speakers, nationalism is a curse word because New Zealanders speak English and are a nation. However, I was surprised how Jordan B Peterson said, "monarchy in your country", not our monarchy.
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  1185. By sending state-of-the-art surveillance equipment to Vietnam and training cadres in Hanoi in how to make efficient use of those devices, the East German Stasi enabled the Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security to track down internal and external enemies and to perform operational work that was of major significance for the struggle in South Vietnam.
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  1186. Dear? English is a ridiculous language. Why do the Commies continue to die even though the war is over. Is God also a racist war criminal? -Felix Steiner, 1946
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  1187. Was your militia unit part of the ISIS? So you claim that 10% of unpaid self-trained soldiers are better than a hired special forces regular?
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  1188.  @sorsocksfake  War of aggression in the East? Sounds familiar. People seem genuinely delighted, though. https://youtu.be/I4PIlf8qrm8
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  1189. Kurt Schumacher was staunchly  anti-Nazi. His right arm had to be amputated during WW1. Such martyrs do not have a long life.
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  1190. Vietnam was bombed more than Germany. So, what is the big deal about WW2.
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  1191. People use that word very lightly. Perhaps the nazbols had some power after WW2, but the actual anti-semites were not in leadership positions. If Trump was a supporter of the German party, his presidency was a greater victory than the Battle of Dunkirk. Also, shows that they were pioneers in human rights, which is not true.
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  1192. Was the Georgian despot Russian nationalist? Belarus was completely destroyed. Surprisingly, Estonia suffered less in number than Finns and less in percentage terms than Russia
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  1193. Dirlewanger would have been in a straitjacket in mental hospital. He would not have been given subordinates in a democratic society.
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  1194. Chileans also meet the above criteria: https://youtu.be/wJAL_OR8-MY These are obviously allied: https://youtu.be/w0xTat4PqSM
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  1195. @slovene ball Peace with Germany was officially proclaimed on March 12th, 1954. One could well argue that the war between Finland and Austria is still ongoing due to the dissolution of the Greater German Reich, but in reality Austrian and Finnish soldiers shook hands on April 26th, 1945.
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  1196.  @mark.m4954  Because we are not fools. Why give money when rape is free.
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  1197. At the moment I am interested in the events of 1945-1947 in Finland. Although there were rumors of a coup, it atrophied into a courtroom drama.
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  1198. You used the term Latin America, because the majority of South Americans and Mexicans feel they are of European origin. It's an eternal colony. Africa suffers from the paradox of plenty combined with low average iq and brain drain. Granted Finland is a Swedish colony, but it will be corrected in the next elections.
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  1199.  @LuisLopez-zh9kh  Our president actually said, "Vad är puolukka?", during this year's annual Independence Day Gala. Meaning what is lingonberry in Swedish. Someone commented, why I should know when even the president doesn't know.
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  1200.  @LuisLopez-zh9kh  Are you a Filipino?
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  1201.  @LuisLopez-zh9kh  Ah, you're an American. My condolences. https://youtu.be/T7McG69nDZs
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  1202.  @LuisLopez-zh9kh  Of course they are my accomplishments because I was there and did my part. This is your greatest achievement: https://youtu.be/5ixoqCecD6Y
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  1203. You are being saved from prostitution. Denial of megalomania is not self-loathing. Secular women hate themselves so much they put silicone on their breasts.
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  1204. 13:30 That is a bit flawed narrative. Millions of people (in Europe) cannot be at the top of any pyramid. It was just one ethnic conflict among others.
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  1205. True. This is one of those censored works that doesn’t bother me. People became Nazis due to a real experience of ill-treatment and multiculturalism, not by reading books.
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  1206. Jesus Christ, who would have thought Jörn Donner was more conservative than the mainstream media. A treat for Swedish speakers (subtitled in Finnish) https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1636205/?ref_=m_nmfmd_dr_4
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  1207. They have a budget. Weapons come in a variety of prices and qualities, which are then tested and users share experiences. It’s not significantly different from the U.S. military. What was the Polish economy like since it was totally crushed? Also, the Finnish economy was libertarian with the overall tax burden around 15%, yet it barely survived as a state.
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  1208. Erich "The Slav" von Lewinski
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  1209. In five years, we will have a Nazi army in Europe. Don't say I didn't tell you. On top of that. Putin will blow up trains, ferries and planes.
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  1210. Tik is burnt out because Germany exist lol. Having traveled in Asia, feminism is the only thing that annoys me a little, but that too is partly self-deception. Women are socialists for obvious reasons. Nothing can be done about it.
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  1211.  @nottoday3817  Actually, if Poland were located between France and Germany, it would have been a safe place for Poles, bad for Germany.
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  1212. Good point. As troops congested in Central Europe, many babushkas and even backstage soldiers died of starvation. On the other hand, Nazis had already planned removing unfit people under Aktion T4.
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  1213. Putin says, "you are N-word", because psychopaths always claim the opposite. Lower class people adopt the ghetto slang.
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  1214. Are you a bot? Are you German? Do you say that a Nazi born in Moscow is innocent? Yes or no.
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  1215. Actually, I have always used similar figures to prove that the millions of soldiers is no extremist group, but rather an inevitable consequence of industrialization and population growth. They really needed more forest plots.
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  1216. Hungarian MiG-21 https://youtu.be/0YrGPMdV4jM
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  1217. I once met an Estonian man who was wounded in Afghanistan while serving in the Soviet Red Army.
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  1218.  @reuvenpolonskiy2544  That the Red Army was pretty fucked up. However, Russia is probably the best of the BRICS.
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  1219.  @SmotritelMayaka29  I don't really care. If I could decide, I would use FN 303 riot guns against the Afghans at the Finnish border.
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  1220.  @SmotritelMayaka29  Put a cork in it. The Afghans have given nothing to Finland.
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  1221.  @larsgadell5016  RIP Israel, never forget https://www.sotapolku.fi/henkilot/karkkainen_israel_1914-06-16_oulainen/
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  1222. Might work posing as Edvard VIII, if you shoot Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, Clement Attlee and George VI. Nepalese royal massacre led to the abolishment of monarchy  and put an end to the civil war that lasted for almost a decade.
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  1223. Ingrian Leo Komarov was born in the USSR and won gold in the Finnish team. Individualistic Americans always win the Stanley cup, but rarely the Olympic gold. Isn't Tik's ideology British nationalism from the Opium War era?
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  1224. Sir!..Oswald Mosley : ) He seems to be civilized compared to the Finnish fascists who were alcoholics dressed in a Nazi uniform. Chancellor of the State Pekka Siitoin suggested basic income like a true Nazi: https://youtu.be/DZJTNLvOFRo
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  1225. Actually, Germany had no choice, because Britain declared war on Germany. Brazil, a former Portuguese colony, captured two Axis generals. However, their participation rate was low because there was no real threat.
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  1226.  @mrhpijl  MI6’s U.S. office drew a fake map purporting to show Adolf Hitler’s plans to invade South America, and made sure this map ended up on FDR’s desk at the White House.
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  1227.  @mikereger1186  They were quite advanced until the US found an alien spaceship. A bit like Kim Jong-il, Robert E. Lee and the Taliban against Pershing, Robin Hood and the Golden Horde.
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  1228.  @idkm8952  Mujahideen armed with AK-47, and SS Cavalry with Stg 44. What's the difference?
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  1229.  @idkm8952  Well, let's say Gewehr 43 vs Mujahideen with SKS. The question was about ability and action.
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  1230.  @idkm8952  Afghans defeated the Red Army. That's why I switched to a broader term mujahideen to make it equal. For example, some Yemeni troops had kar98k in 2014. Overall, the Germans won by k / d ratio of 2 to 1, so surely some post-war group is even worse performing than the SS. My initial gut reaction was spot on.
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  1231. Isn't fission bomb a bit over-engineered weapon?
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  1232.  @ronmaximilian6953  As well as insecticide?
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  1233.  @ronmaximilian6953  Obviously, Zyklon B referring to WW2
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  1234. Upper class Reds get a box, six feet under.
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  1235.  @twt000  I mean, rich communists can afford a coffin. Eastern Europe is full of monuments erected in honour of a group of people whose remains are elsewhere.
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  1236.  @twt000  Nice fiction..12 years as a Slave, but as a comedy 😂😂 Seriously speaking, Mississippi Grind is one of my favorite movies.
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  1237.  @twt000  Today is Independence Day. Finland was a republic and still is a republic. Your problem is not my problem
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  1238. Also, Liechtenstein was looted during WW2 by the Allies. It was a historic state of the Holy Roman Empire, now a miniscule village. They bathe in money, though.
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  1239. Mannerheim memorial raises hackles in Russia https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/mannerheim_memorial_raises_hackles_in_russia/9082198
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  1240. That is only possible if the Belarusians were collaborators. Stalin implemented a scorched-earth policy, so the villages should have been burned before the Germans arrived. Looks like one guy had a cossack hat and one blue X, which hints at Vlasov. All in all, a mixed bunch.
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  1241. For people who admire Walther's four flag collection. Finland was a fascist dictatorship from 1917 to 1919 and the official flag was red (similar to Montenegro), therefore WW1 officers had three flags. Some collected four state flags. Prussia or Russia, 2xFinland and nazi-Germany. 🤺🇷🇺🇲🇪🇫🇮🏴‍☠️
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  1242. Australian units based with the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF) in Japan were among the first UN personnel to be deployed in South Korea.
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  1243.  @davethompson3326  But how Western Europeans are they? Dresden Prague distance is less than 2 hours by bus. They have a very nostalgic (Ostalgie) understanding of communism. Probably because it was the best communist country anywhere (after Kadarism?).
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  1244.  @piotrd.4850  In 1961, the U.S. government transferred about one billion in “counterpart funds” to the Austrian government, which established the “ERP-Fonds.” This fund enjoys assets worth almost three billion Euros and is still providing investment funds for innovative projects to the Austrian economy today to the tune of 500 million Euros. https://www.austriainusa.org/occupation
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  1245.  @bighorse5596  While Olavi Alakulppi served as a company commander in West Germany in the 1950s, Elvis Presley donated a jacket to Olavi. Elvis was was carrying out his military service. https://youtu.be/0FT3SmZ_zx0
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  1246. In my opinion, there is no single point but a constant struggle with varying intensity. Lots of defensive victories still in 1943-44 at Kasserine, Tienhaara, Ilomantsi etc. On 30 January 1943, following Hitler's outrage over the Battle of the Barents Sea, Erich Raeder was forced to retire as Admiral Inspector, a ceremonial office. Karl Dönitz called off operations in the North Atlantic in the spring of 1943, saying, "We had lost the Battle of the Atlantic". Dönitz joined the Nazi party only in 1944. In 1946, the U.S. had some 14,000 soldiers in Austria. For comparison, the number of Finnish ground troops was limited to 34,400 men. Low intensity cultural wars: Patriotic and social riots of the Polish people in the years 1956, 1968, 1970, 1976, 1980 and 1981. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/poznan-june-1956-monument Gelsenkirchen: Controversial Lenin statue erected in German city https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-europe-53123947
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  1247.  @antonjoly9601  They could still appease the Americans in 1943.
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  1248.  @antonjoly9601  Perhaps. On the other hand, Finland also had better relations with the USA than the UK. New White Guard statue on the West Coast of Finland: https://data.kosila.fi/kp24/2020/06/29/1200_1200/2709784.jpg
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  1249. Another proof of German victory. They were not convicted earlier, because the Allied forces were too insignificant. Only the historical shift from high birth rates to low birth rates and an aging population led to convictions. "given a two-year suspended prison sentence Thursday, a court announced. The 93-year-old man, identified as Bruno D., was charged with 5,230 counts of accessory to murder over his time as an SS guard" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/23/europe/nazi-guard-germany-conviction-intl/index.html
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  1250.  @dragosstanciu9866  Ukraine alone is bigger than Vietnam. Imagine taking over Vietnam with horse-drawn carriages.
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  1251.  @dragosstanciu9866  Although I am sympathetic towards feminism, this video is too extreme for me. Most men aren't pussywhipped, hence dislike ratio.
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  1252.  @dragosstanciu9866  That's what Joe Biden would say. You know he's a Catholic? https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/what-does-the-church-teach-about-prostitution
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  1253.  @dragosstanciu9866  Friedrich Paulus was a practicing Roman Catholic, but he has no connection with the Wehrmacht?
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  1254.  @dragosstanciu9866  Herbert von Karajan was a member of the Nazi party. Herbert must have r'ed a dozen. Right? https://img.welt.de/img/icon/mobile130343228/6652503607-ci102l-w1024/WAMS-STIL-von-Karajan-4.jpg
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  1255.  @dragosstanciu9866  You might be right. That's already one battalion. Perhaps neo-Nazism is a real problem in England, not to mention Russia. However, not a problem in Finland.
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  1256. "Rolf Labbart stole my woman. Of course it was rape. Who could love a man like him." This video is so delusional 😆😆
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  1257.  @jannowak711  PC culture has gone too far. It's a German plot to save on defense spending.
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  1258. My Xbox overheated and exploded twice. Back in the day, Call of Duty 3 was pretty good. I had so much fun humiliating the Americans.
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  1259. People keep saying Croatia is fascist, but Serbia is not. They are very similar. Croatia has about 2% higher taxation. They even speak the same language.
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  1260. You can't. The people have decided they are far-right. Like it or not, economic liberalism has no place in continental Europe.
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  1261. Probably depends on your race. I am allergic to uncooked tomatoes, thanks Columbus.
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  1262. It’s said the first Rolls-Royce Lenin adopted was confiscated from a Russian business tycoon
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  1263. Exactly. He just gave the plan. Take it or leave it.
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  1264. ​ @TheImperatorKnight  On the other hand, are the Social Democrats a socialist party? They support importing cheap labor, leading to tax evasion and parallel societies. We have a Crystal Meth party and two parties supporting Putin (allegedly Libertarian). One pro-Western libertarian party. Three major globalist parties and one nationalist party 🇫🇮 (19%).
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  1265. That would not make sense. Chinese mortality was higher in the 1960s due to the famine. Likewise, Cambodia experienced the worst massacres in the 1970s. Not to mention the Vietnam War.
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  1266. You’d think a chess player would also know math, maybe not.
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  1267. Basically, you say if a Hungarian turns the lever, it's not technically German crime, even if the train had been packed by a German crew.
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  1268. 27:00 Collaborators knew it thanks to Wilhelm Canaris.
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  1269. Southern states fought against Germany. Lyndon B. Johnson was southern statesman. Germany leads the EU. I see no reason why the CSA can't be separate country, since it is clearly a civilized region.
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  1270. You act like Barack H Obama and David Cameron were bullied by Angela Merkel to invade Libya. Germany is one of the few countries that skipped the 2011 military intervention in Libya. Europe is divided into several blocs, such as NATO, Co-belligerent, Neutral and Russian (fascists). European part of Istanbul is the second largest city in Europe.
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  1271.  @shelonnikgrumantov5061  "to disregard Soviet sources" It happened a long time ago. Soviet war crimes continued until the late 1980s. "Niinistö received the documents as a birthday gift from Putin during a visit to Sochi in Russia in August. The collection contains roughly 170 documents and photographs about Mannerheim and his family. [...] The President said that he got the impression that Mannerheim was respected in Russia. He said that he did not believe that the token involved any ulterior motives" https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/paper_putin_gifts_mannerheim_document_cache_to_niinisto/10417457
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  1272.  @shelonnikgrumantov5061  "Trying to put a memorial sign right St Petersburg" Don't worry, some day African immigrants will also remove the Alexander's statue from Helsinki.
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  1273.  @BelleDividends  I only disagree with bodycount. The Nazis are in fourth place. People should not bundle Goulash Communism, Stalinism and Maoism into one pile, let alone social democracies. Blend of Kekkonen +‎ Tšekkoslovakia= Kekkoslovakia. https://youtu.be/HNTfLGt59qo Mao is the worst. Then Stalin 3.Capitalists in general (WW1), Genghis Khan. 4. Hitler. Ethiopians are also worse than the Nazis because this has happened in my lifetime, although a lower number of victims.
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  1274.  @GeneralBurkhalter1  That vdeo is problematic because he defines imperialism as criminal. Most empires have been like this, so empires cannot have an ideology, or are all empires Nazis? Was Stalin a Nazi?
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  1275.  @GeneralBurkhalter1  Queen Elizabeth is not a monarch, but a criminal. Mic drop. lol
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  1276.  @GeneralBurkhalter1  Finnish neo-Nazi leader proposed basic income. The Social Democratic Party has been the main basic income opponent in Finland. Strasserism remains an active position within strands of postwar global neo-Nazism. Didn’t almost all Austrians have been dealing with the Nazis, yet almost half voted for the Socialists https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_Austrian_legislative_election
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  1277.  @slicemf5347  They were both aggressors, according to Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. If you use homing pigeons and starve in 1980s and 1990s, it's pretty much your own fault.
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  1278.  @slicemf5347  I referred to trade embargoes in general. Some nations cannot stand small hardships, because they aren't self-sufficient. In North Korea and Ethiopia, it was a deliberate policy. The Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia, used 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia as government policy by restricting food supplies for unfit subhumans. Meanwhile in Germany, zero deaths in the 1970s "It is, then, an irrefutable fact that the democratic form of government, with its guarantees for the inviolability of individual liberty and of judicial security for all, is the right form for any highly developed nation" Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz, the Reichspräsident DDR was mediocrity. No famine though https://youtu.be/Xct1td9wLS4
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  1279.  @slicemf5347  1.2 million dead Ethiopians, is propaganda? You should be a BLM activist..lol
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  1280. I guess Hitler was an agnostic of a catholic background. As far as I understand, the people of Vatican City were not persecuted. Priests were persecuted in Poland and Slovenia for encouraging the partisans.
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  1281. They had many opportunities to avoid war with the United States. Dönitz dutifully noted that "the sinking of the American ship S.S. Robin Moor was contrary to the orders given," but court-martial Metzler had feared did not materialize.
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  1282.  snowy the snowman  Interestingly, they erected an anti-communist monument as early as 1981. "Made of steel, the two crosses were unveiled on June 28th, 1981, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the first Polish rebellion against Soviet control." https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/poznan-june-1956-monument
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  1283.  @alexalexin9491  Surely men will praise them and women will resent them. It's history, though. Never forget what they did to London. https://youtu.be/Rv9iu-3k-kQ
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  1284. Kind of agree, but it's weird to claim them as progressives after 70+ years. Just as Castro was no longer a radical. Extremist movements often arise as a result of war, such as Isis. Nationalism is the desire for self-determination. Armistice Agreement between the USSR and the UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, on the one hand, and Finland on the other: ... 2. "The Finnish Government also accepts the obligation to intern German and Hungarian nationals in Finnish territory" That sounds a bit racist.
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  1285. Seating arrangement is decided by voting, so it can be on the right or left. Neo-nazis are part of the extra-parliamentary opposition, because voting for them is prohibited in the EU. However, I would say the military juntas of Asia and South America are anarcho-capitalists. Even Venezuela is narco-state, not a planned economy.
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  1286.  @rockmcdwayne1710  Oh, you asked how. The KGB bribed Western politicians. Basic divide and conquer tactics.
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  1287.  @floydlooney6837  "Amphetamine fueled American soldiers marching into World War II [...]By 1943 a package of Benzedrine pills had its place in the emergency kit of every American bomber." https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/fast-times-the-life-death-and-rebirth-of-amphetamine
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  1288. They died by suffocation from insecticide
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  1289. Probably something to do with their "contribution" during the Battle of Seoul. Korean War was the first large-scale jet-vs-jet air battles, with the F-86 Sabre vs MiG-15.
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  1290. lol denialism. Kosovo uses the Euro currency.
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  1291. The embargo escalated into an open war with the United States in the Atlantic. In a way, Karl Dönitz lost the war, although he acted according to Hitler's orders. Also, they lacked grit and self-confidence. Even the world's most powerful armies are not capable of destroying the Taliban.
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  1292. Taking into account the economic situation at that time, I bet those women immediately rose to the (Soviet) middle class or beyond. To my recollection, Malcolm X mentions in his biography that he was a pimp as a minor. He responded to his draft notice by saying he would fight for the Japanese, and kill white Americans.
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  1293. I am always amazed at how people admire Stalin instead of Olof Palme. I don't admire either, but I know which is normal and which is a bank robber with poor blood circulation
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  1294. I would say the USA is a federation of many nations. Acting PM of Finland Ernst von Born spoke Swedish as his first language. Imagine if Trump spoke German and someone interpreted what he said.
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  1295. For me, Buchanan represents non-interventionism. Imagine how much dirt you get by wearing a police uniform, yet I wouldn't seriously claim that they are the Nazis. https://youtu.be/lDRzG3mH-DQ The rest is nonsense, though. People from African backgrounds were given the right to vote in the 1960s. You wouldn’t even know who they were without the existence of races.
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  1296. The Finnish SS Volunteer Battalion was lucky enough to take part in the operation "fall blau" near Grozny and come back alive. Of course such a spearhead unit also suffered heavy losses. https://youtu.be/kiNMx3Xx33A
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  1297. Oddly, my comments disappeared, though not even controversial....Well, let's try another way. 99% were Germans, which may explain the policy. However, immigration was restricted even before WW2.
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  1298. “En 1942 mi padre es deportado conjuntamente con el resto de alemanes, italianos y un japonés --un pobre viejo que residía en Corinto--, y (todos) confinados en campos de concentración en los Estados Unidos”, dice. Los alemanes fueron llevados inicialmente a Wichita Falls, Texas, desde donde los distribuyeron en numerosos campos de concentración en todo el territorio norteamericano. “A mi padre le correspondió permanecer hasta 1943 en el campo de concentración en Keneddy, Texas, luego fue transferido a otro campo de concentración en Bismarck, Dakota del Norte”.
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  1299.  @slavashishkin3313  Nope, the Finns wanted a crusade and got it. Very prophetic: http://heninen.net/miekka/p1.htm
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  1300.  @ristusnotta1653  Order of the Commander-in-Chief N 1
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  1301.  @ristusnotta1653  "Follow me for the last time", proved to be correct.
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  1302.  @ristusnotta1653  What?
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  1303.  @ristusnotta1653  Not so tragic. It was a crusade, as the man said. The policy of glasnost restored Orthodoxy's position at the fore of Russian national identity. http://rauha.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/turku.png
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  1304.  @ristusnotta1653  Depends on what year you mean. Karelians now live in Finland.
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  1305.  @ristusnotta1653  Sounds like Oktoberfest in Brazil https://youtu.be/hkvqTU2Le8w
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  1306.  @ristusnotta1653  National Guard arrives Minneapolis, Minnesota. https://youtu.be/G1uRU0PTYZo
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  1307. Screaming nuns is tragic. I thought you were Protestants. Btw. Helsinki was bombed 39 times (1941-44), but the damage wasn't significant, perhaps due to more spacious zoning.
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  1308. Boris is very similar to Churchill, but I don't think Boris can be called a colonialist. As a Finn, I trust the RAF and the other RAF in Sweden and Norway, all professionals. Our swampy geography does not favor tanks.
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  1309. 1971 Bangladesh genocide (Allies vs. Allies)
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  1310. ​ @resvero8342  You say, King of Jerusalem was a good guy like C.G.E Mannerheim. Both made crusades against pagans.
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  1311. I think it's a bit misleading because the United States is also a former colony. South Americans are largely mixed people, which is supposed to be a good thing.
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  1312. I think major general Karl Eibl was deliberately fragged by the Italians. They supposedly mistook his command vehicle for a Soviet armored car and blew it up with hand grenades. Given the date of 21 January 1943 this is by no means impossible. He commanded the recently formed, still inexperienced  385th Infantry Division, which was subordinated to the 8th Italian Army.
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  1313.  @SoraTheHappyEmo  Another genocide is alt-history. Invasion was never a threat to countries like Canada or even Ireland.
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  1314. I keep my money in a Danish bank, so my faith is strong, but I don’t believe in women as foremen.
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  1315.  @JohnKobaRuddy  Can't a white man get justice here? I love how homeboy Lauri Pekuri was released in December 1944 😎
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  1316. Spain and Vichy never joined the Axis
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  1317.  @nk_3332  If you think a decree issued on 25 May 1521 by Emperor Charles V is radical, then yes, Hitler was also radical. However, social conservatism seeks to "reverse or stem the direction of change". Everything becomes traditional over time. As more than 100-year-old SS-Rottenführer Veikko Kasslin, who switched sides in the fall of 1944. "...can't even remember what we were fighting for" http://www.suomensotilas.fi/ss-mies-veikko-kasslin-100-vuotta/
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  1318. They accidentally drove the wrong way down a one-way street and collided with a wall of Panzerschrecks.
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  1319. I wonder how they paid for the getaway to South America. Was it libertarian logistics? At least some submarine captains chose Norway as their location to surrender.
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  1320. I wouldn't be sad if the Nazis had won or lost. We don't need to come up with complex reasons for imperialism or war, it's basic human nature. Just look at 2019–2021 Persian Gulf crisis. In practice, Englandization (see Finlandization) would have meant censoring the BBC. Mere abiding by the Germany's foreign policy rules (Irish foreign policy) doesn’t mean ass licking at street level. In the case of occupation, regional changes are often the opposite what people imagine, because they are thought of as internal borders. For example, the transfer of the Crimean Oblast in 1954.
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  1321. Nero is genius in Finnish. I might as well say, Churchill was genius.
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  1322. lol modern lifestyle 21:41 ...I've always wondered how those kinds of people survived the war. Probably due to an exceptionally enlarged brain. But he would still have been really slender as this organist: https://www.bitchute.com/video/jNSngdXKWdqy/
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  1323. With the help of the USSR, Nationale Volksarmee became a top logistics expert. Freier Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund or FDGB was one of the world’s largest trade unions from 1946 to 1990. The single trade union was also very important as a source of new blood for the military.
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  1324. That is a good question. Makes me want to rewatch "Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter". In the pilot episode Wilhelm Winter states that he has served in the invasion of Poland as well as in the invasion of France. Maybe it was some battalion of the 208th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)?
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  1325. Of course, you shouldn't reward criminals and cheaters. “Anyone who refuses to work should not eat.” -2 Thessalonians 3:10 "You shall not covet anything that is your neighbor's." -Ex. 20:17 "God helps those who help themselves" -Greek proverb “You shall not commit adultery.” -Exodus 20:14
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  1326.  Vlad Vlad  Speaking of conspiracies, Eastern Europeans have not heard of blank-firing adapters. https://youtu.be/tLvwgmClQss
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  1327.  @andybrennand1576  Himmler was escorted by the Finnish state police during his visit to Finland. They reported him buying toys for the children of fallen comrades from the Stockmann department store https://youtu.be/wYQSlxlYwEc
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  1328. I don't think your first point is possible in any situation. For example, Belgrade is still hostile. Atomic bombs didn't have much impact, because Tokyo was already destroyed in March. Hirohito retained his power anyway, and a rather light reformation was sufficient for the allies.
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  1329. Clarification, Kosovo is not hostile because there are multinational policemen. All is good.
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  1330.  @Syn_1  Mannerheim ordered not to bomb an unlit airport in Leningrad to prevent civilian casualties. Surprisingly, they turned on the lights.
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  1331.  @TheStugbit  I recommend looking at a map, you are asking too much. Conquering Ukraine is possible. However, if the goal is a ferocious crusade against the anti-Christ, then it's just bad luck (13th) for them, overall profit.
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  1332. I think it would be interesting to hear your opinion on modern Yugoslavia. "The killing of Yugoslavia" by Keith was quite interesting, although I somewhat disagree. WW2 in general is a strange fetish for many (those who avoid military service), and is too predictable for my taste.
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  1333. In hindsight, I don't know many Russians from any era I would have voted for. They are all alike. Empires are imperialist in nature. I am tired of waiting for a liberal revolution, which is why I support Finland becoming a member of NATO. Kings and Generals is pretty accurate though.
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  1334.  @chaptermasterpedrokantor1623  I don't even watch those videos. I'm talking about "How did Russia become an Empire?". Someone claimed it as western propaganda, unaware that Denmark, Saxony and Prussia were allies of Russia.
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  1335.  @captainsponge7825  Good enough reason for me. All other reasons were in Finland after the war, such as socialism and hyperinflation. Nothing happened.
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  1336.  @hjalmar4565  Technically speaking, they did clash quite brutally. Afrikaans is as young as American English. Winston Churchill was captured and held prisoner in a camp in Pretoria. Transvaal government left Africa on a Dutch warship, sent by the Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands.
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  1337.  @hjalmar4565  Maybe you have poor eyesight. I said, I agree. Just like USA is not a colony. Rommel could have declared his army as a neutral African republic, since a single division was able to operate independently at that time, nowadays a brigade. For example, Rhodesia was smaller than Rommel's army. He made a fatal mistake by returning to Normandy
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  1338.  @hjalmar4565 That's how states are born. Liechtenstein's Standard German is virtually identical to Standard German. It is Europe's fourth-smallest country, with an area of just over 160 square kilometres (62 square miles) and a population of 38,749.
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  1339.  @hjalmar4565  In 1918, Finnish reds would have joined the USSR voluntarily. One German division was enough to capture Helsinki in a couple of days, which resolved that Finland exist as a country. That is another example of how a relatively small number of people can change history.
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  1340.  @hjalmar4565  Propably over three million men either switched to Allied side or were pushed out of the game like Kalervo Kurkiala, Felix Steiner etc. I don't believe Rommel would be a problem in Africa. Nowadays, many Namibians of German ancestry identify themselves as Afrikaners.
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  1341.  @hjalmar4565  Apparently you still don't realize that Rommel was killed by Hitler, not by the British. They did create three new countries run by Nazis, such as Kurt Waldheim, Kurt Kiesinger and Willi Stoph. If we look at Finland, it is no longer completely independent either, because independence was based on Gustaf Mannerheim. At the time of Urho Kekkonen, Finland was in trouble. For a moment russia was week 1982-2001. We are now NATO collaborators, even if we are not members. Rommel would have been strong enough, but he lacked imagination.
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  1342. They would be in trouble. Take their planes and cancel Operation Husky. Not much left, only hot air.
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  1343.  @freedomordeath89  You can nitpick about details, but the fact of the matter is republicans vote for political direction. Felix Steiner interacting (slapping) with the Vikings (@40min). According to the narrator, they made u-turn in January 1943. https://youtu.be/kxqzvMngoek
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  1344.  @freedomordeath89  I don’t remember one party ever getting over 50%. Socialists got 47% in 1916, before they split in two. I call this bs: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_German_parliamentary_election_and_referendum
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  1345.  @freedomordeath89  Unfortunately, much of the world just doesn’t have enough iq to hold fair elections. Democracy is the result of evolution, not revolution.
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  1346. Are you kidding me? She is a social media celebrity. She is already a millionaire and doesn't know anything about the climate.
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  1347. ...and a bunch of Afghans on horseback defeated them in 1989.
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  1348.  @caryblack5985  Nope. KGB didn't trust the Stasi to operate independently.
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  1349. Decolonization was the get out of jail card. I recommend watching The Last Vermeer. Mr. "Dracula" plays a Jewish captain, whose wife was in bed with Hans Landa.
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  1350. 24:29 Can British imperialism be interpreted as a religious war? Swedish elites protested against Christian II of Denmark. Rural Finns didn't protest against anyone but woke up from their tents. Merchant Gustaf Ranin (Raninen) was one of the first ethnic Finns to become rich in the 1870s.
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  1351. lol..I recently learned that libertarianism is mainstream in the UK, which is logical for monarchists. They are quite backward on the corruption scale, but certainly not a developing country. It's not my cup of tea, so to speak.
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  1352. National liberalism is the best system ever invented https://youtu.be/hPGdaoZLBrE
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  1353.  @AFGuidesHD  Reunion? To my recollection, Prussia was in favor of Prexit. Austria-Hungary and Czechoslovakia were equally non-German.
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  1354. Most people do not abandon their children, which is why even political opinions are inherited. Not to mention other attributes such as lactose intolerance. In practice, TIK proves this by trying and failing to change people’s opinions.
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  1355. Russia is still doing better than Vietnam, but it's a mistake to assume that the rest of the world is like Hungary. With 100% certainty, the Communists died of starvation in the 1980s. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derg
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  1356. English speakers often have the illusion that people only have accents. Maybe Free State of Jones was a social construct, but I do not think The Inca Empire was.
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  1357. As Ronald Reagan said, I didn't leave the Social Democrats, they left me.
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  1358.  @odysseus2656  My father had a horse, so this is self-evident to me. I was taught how Finnhorses were a central asset to Finnish military forces. Not to mention how the Taliban still operate in Afghanistan. I recommend searching for your own surname to see if your ethnic group is represented (SS/Wehrmacht/Ostlegionen). For example Kowalski and Nowak are the most common Surnames in Poland.
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  1359. More precisely, Belarusians..Good question. Despite the victories, I would not want to serve in the Red Army. I think it is fair to say that Germans didn't spare men either.
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  1360.  @Mousoroque  Winning Soviet style: https://youtu.be/Fz3sZiVAO0k
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  1361.  @jonesjohnson6301  One German soldier is probably equivalent to two or three Soviets. According to Lauri Pekuri, Luftwaffe lost up to 20% of airplanes on transfer flights alone.
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  1362. So that's your preference. Granted, Hugo Boss knew how to design uniforms.
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  1363. In a multi-party democracy, the votes are divided into several parts, with the largest party receiving less than 20% of the votes. Anyone can get a significant amount of votes as long as he controls the media. https://youtu.be/VqM1wLaYHnc
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  1364. Although not true for many countries, Hong Kong was indeed civilized. I was there about 12 years after it was decolonized. Today, it's practically subjected by the fascist dictatorship of China.
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  1365. I'm a realist. The birth control pill changed Germany. Austria was a neo-Nazi state until 1997
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  1366. Eminently a brutal incident. However, mortality as % of 1939 population was lower than in many other European countries. Rather, it was the Axis Civil War.
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  1367. One thing is for sure, he was not an isolationist.
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  1368. Dirlewanger was a small fish compared to Ferdinand Schörner. I'm surprised Stalin didn't whack him. Meanwhile good guys like Nikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov did not survive.
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  1369.  Jonathan Williams  Some people have scary neighbors though https://youtu.be/6tIOJITTptI
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  1370. When marshal Mannerheim had to eat cheap caviar, he said, "In wartime I can't complain. The main thing is that we have caviar.." This seems like narcissism. However, he offered all the conscripts a ration of booze at his own expense. If I remember correctly this happened September 18th. The Germans started to land on Suursaari which led to Finnish forces opening fire at 00:55 on 15 September 1944. Likewise, Monty wasn't particularly autocratic on a WW2 scale.
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  1371. Alexander the Liberator and Nicholas II were shot. Romania, Bulgaria, Austria, Hungary, Germany and Italy became republics. Maybe Winston was a genius republican.
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  1372. As I understand it, Italy was not occupied. Mussolini was lynched without trial because he didn't switch sides like the rest of the nation.
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  1373.  @ericscottstevens  Because they surrendered at Stalingrad. Only 3402 Finns were captured and 1433 died in captivity. Probably some committed suicide before being captured, but I don't know the exact number.
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  1374. I am a bit biased, but Erik Heinrichs got praise from Stalin after visiting Moscow in 1948.
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  1375. That's nonsense. U.S. production was more than total Axis production, and British aircraft were on the Eastern Front as early as 1941.
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  1376. This entire video is borderline denialism. Does he expect the Germans to build the entire infrastructure in a few years for them, which is still not done.
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  1377.  @caryblack5985  On the other hand, fighting with the US is not always a bad thing. Would it not have been worthwhile for Poland to declare war on the United States.
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  1378.  R.K. RocketKnight  I get a bit annoyed when people talk about cold mud. There is no such thing. If it rains in liquid, you are fine. Mussolini's excursion in Ethiopia ended just as badly. You can criticize the scorched earth policy, but the 20th Mountain Army (Gebirgsarmee) was not born yesterday. Soviets lost hundreds of thousands of people in 1946-47.
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  1379. I think it was part of the Russian civil war. Hundreds of thousands of Karelians had to give up their land and livestock to the collective farm. If they had been able to keep their possessions, then the Russian invasion might have been successful.
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  1380. However, I am impressed that we cloned Bristol Blenheim. It's high tech after all, not like horses.
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  1381. Chill
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  1382. IIHF WC 2011 Final: Sweden - Finland 1-6 ...One of my favorites
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  1383. Do you mean the Germans were peace-loving hippies? Žiguli is better than Volkswagen?
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  1384. This is just a scratch. He could make this a continuous series
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  1385. Semyon Ivanovych Zelenskyy served in the Red Army. His grandson will be de-nazified, possibly executed in 2022. Lesson is that you will be persecuted no matter what you do.
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  1386.  @crimony3054  Interestingly, my comment was removed even though it did not contain any swear words or historical inaccuracies
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  1387. Youtube’s CEO is a Polish Jewish woman, so she can hardly be accused of Nazism.
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  1388.  @InternetDarkLord  Maybe it's a hint to move on. I am more interested in the post-war period. Looks almost as goose stepping was banned, strange style in 1954 movie: https://youtu.be/CTG5RLg-IAM
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  1389.  @stevewatson6839  Sure, but I know that story too well. Mannerheim achieved his goals in 1941 and held on until the summer of 1944. During the trench warfare period of the war, long-range patrols were often conducted behind enemy lines. I think it would be interesting to study less known Russian or Finnish extremists, such as Johan Christian Fabritius, Paavo Susitaival, Christian Frederik von Schalburg, or even Felix Steiner himself (Hitler's generals).
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  1390. I have no idea. I'm using Google translate.
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  1391. I'm trying to come up with a comment 🤔 My liver: don't worry mate. You just say whatever. I got us bro. About freedom of speech. David Irving is not Anders Breivik and Alexander Ovechkin is not Putin.
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  1392. Hello Aliens ; )
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  1393. I'd like to see a prequel with deepfake Stallone. Rambo begins: Operation Shining Brass
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  1394.  Ajgleskorv I don't think they were so helpless. Stalin was suffocated.
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  1395.  kiril marinov  Apparently, the Soviet Union did not solve the problems caused by nationalism
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  1396.  kiril marinov  What does it matter where Crimea is inside the Soviet Union? Some have argued that nationalism was settled, but it was really a union of states, not a federation.
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  1397.  Dwarov 1  Unlike Glantz, Khrushchev saw the events inside and had access to the Finnish archives. A "Winter War" lasted until 1943. A truce was realized before the snowfall in September 1944..All Finns have been located and buried and the lost are counted as dead. You have obviously wrong numbers.
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  1398. They lasted in the form of an empire for only twelve years. True in that sense. Fortunately, this video was not sensational.
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  1399.  @tyskbulle  If the peace treaty had allowed it, settling 3,000 Germans (or even 200k) in Finland would not have been a problem. The Soviet Union had a strange way of hauling "criminals" from abroad. Apparently the USSR was indeed in ruins.
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  1400.  @qwertyqwerty-ek7dy  Finland is a borderland of Eastern Europe. It's not difficult to find a communist in Finland, regardless of ethnicity.
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  1401. Basically, it was the Reich Main Security Office, therefore causes confusion. Everything from StuGs, spies and special forces to prison guards. In the case of Finland, they also fought against the Austrians. Mr. Sulo Suorttanen was promoted to major and became a Minister of Defense. sotapolku.fi/henkilot/suorttanen_sulo-elias_1921-02-13_kouvola/
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  1402.  @shanemcdowell3628  I can’t answer that because the SS ranges from Serbian volunteers to space rockets. For example, the Norwegian Legion lost only 10% and commanders were sentenced to imprisonment in a Norwegian luxury prison. I would call them an elite group. During WW2, division-sized units were able to operate completely independently.
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  1403. Claes Purjo was real life Mr. Brooks. He was wealthy businessman and propably gestapo officer, because not even a photo has survived. Police interrogated him in 1950, but nothing was found.
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  1404. I’m just selfishly looking at probabilities. Random person in Austria has a better chance of survival than in Belarus. Finland is better than Leningrad. Italy is better than France. Thailand is better than Burma. Japan is better than French Indochina. Quebec is better than the UK. etc. Surprisingly true even 76 years later. Italy is an exception. Maybe they were just lucky.
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  1405. Wow, a Finnish truck drove over an Austrian mine. This is as real as it gets static.sotasampo.fi/photographs/lg/sakuva_lg_148840.jpg
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  1406.  @damyr  Weak humans. There are some good exceptions, like Singapore. And the "unfortunate" are Somalia and Yemen.
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  1407.  @roflol100  I really don't care about your neck of the woods. Somalia will never become Japan, no matter what you do.
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  1408.  @roflol100  Wtf Gravity? Keep dreaming. Despite its fivefold population, Somalia has an economy at the level of Kosovo. Japan is greater than India.
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  1409.  @roflol100  Japan was lucky because people went to work every day Somalia didn't have that luck. Salarymen are expected to work additional overtime.
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  1410. Fédération internationale de hockey sur glace CANADA VS. FINLAND 🍺🍺👍
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  1411. Stealing ideas works both ways. Finns made KP m/44 SMG, a copy of PPS-43 SMG, but it was redesigned to use the 9×19mm Parabellum. Eventually adopted by West German border guards.
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  1412. "many who were never prosecuted for reasons we'll never understand" I can clarify. Allies withdrew from Italy and Finland in 1947. Only the local communists continued to operate. West Germany was established in 1949. Ludwig Erhard, a WW1 veteran, served under Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. Kurt Georg Kiesinger, a nazi party member, was elected to the Bundestag. How liberal can they be? At this point, the US President Harry Truman publicly stated that the use of nuclear weapons was under "active consideration" against Communist Chinese targets during the Korean War.
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  1413. Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571
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  1414. In a way, Major general Custer was left-wing when he collectivized a native reservation, but you have to draw the line somewhere. Bernie Sanders would suppress wages by favoring immigration. Ted Cruz would close the border and hire cops.
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  1415.  @Alvi410  You just pick and choose bad examples. Richard Spencer is a centre-right social conservative. Unlike BLM, I have never heard of him supporting any criminal activity. The principle of self-determination is prominently embodied in Article I of the Charter of the United Nations. A peaceful separation would make sense. As an example, Finland and the Soviet Union fought for only 3.5 years between 1922-1991. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulo_Suorttanen
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  1416.  @dragosstanciu9866  There is no race 😉. Prague was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Finland declared independence from Russia before the Czech Republic.
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  1417. Not even Khrushchev agrees with Stalin. Are your beliefs the same as Claudia Sheinbaum's?
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  1418. Stalin was the antichrist. My grandfather's brother passed away on February 16, 1940.
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  1419. There is some Nazi literature in Finland, but no new editions are published. Annoys me, because I have given away books for which the price is now more than 200 €. Fortunately, I still have few books left.
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  1420.  @samsonsoturian6013  Vladimir Kirpichnikov was one of those executed after WW2. Rather strange that he was kept alive for so long.
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  1421. 14:30 I am voting for a Finnish police officer and KFOR veteran within the EU. The nation state is a long-term goal. Monaco uses euros, even though it is an independent city-state. Of course you have to choose an alliance. Either the Russian Federation, the EU or NATO. At the moment, we are not yet members of NATO.
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  1422. In Finland, municipalities temporarily occupied by the Russians were Ivalo, Suomussalmi and Ilomantsi, of which Suomussalmi ranked 129th. Therefore, this was not a significant problem.
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  1423.  @chrisporter9397  No. Finland was de facto Axis, albeit Republican. She was mentioned in the question.
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  1424.  @chrisporter9397  Percentages would provide better clarity. Especially when I have enjoyed alcohol. Good night.
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  1425. Vichy was a dominion just like South Africa, so it didn't become a puppet state until 1942. I would argue that the Legion had its own interests (money). Practically a neutral country.
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  1426. Britain was de facto unable to fight. Vichy was a neutral country 1941-42. Canadian public opinion was still anti-war in 1943, but nazis are known for their rigidity. Fanatics were still gathering troops, when the war ended.
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  1427.  teslagod2003  Well, they conquered Finland in 1809 and sold Alaska in 1867, so during that period we were also Americans. For example, there were two Finnish governors in Alaska. Without the Bolshevik Revolution, the war that followed would have been a smaller border conflict.
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  1428.  @alexsilent5603  Although Stalin loosened his discipline during the war, he also converted churches into cinemas, barns, swimming pools etc. and blew up the Vyborg Synagogue. I wouldn't call him a believer. Granted, in the alternative timeline, he could have repented and become a priest to make a living.
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  1429.  @alexsilent5603  It's true that some sects read only certain parts without understanding the message of Bible, inventing a whole new religion. At least part of the Lutheran church is deeply communist. Marjaana Toiviainen is an (good / bad) example of such a person. Finnish idiom "lukea kuin piru Raamattua", well describes her beliefs. She read like the Devil reads the Bible.
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  1430.  @alexsilent5603  Communism is not my cup of tea, to put it politely: "A people that you do not know will eat what your land and labor produce, and you will have nothing but cruel oppression all your days." Deuteronomy 28 - New International Version - Curses for Disobedience
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  1431.  @alexsilent5603  On the other hand, nationalist administration can be quite effective. Our Supreme Leader was a pretty hardcore dude: https://www.bitchute.com/video/zfbeZG9Hv7PV/
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  1432.  @TheImperatorKnight  I suspect the Nazi intelligentsia to which you referred went to Argentina, Bundeswehr, CDU etc. The  Labour Party (UK) is a party of women and minorities, so it did not exist in its current form. Direction – Social Democracy of Slovakia is one of the old-school nationalist parties.
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  1433. Churchill is infected with STDs during his travels in Africa and dies 10 years later. Case closed.
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  1434.  @QuizmasterLaw  You mean it's not possible even when young and virile?
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  1435.  @Paciat  Nelson Mandela was as neutral as Ireland, even though the country was at war and he was a capable young man.
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  1436. @Willy Ekerslike Obviously, a lot depends on the language whether immigration is colonization or ethnic cleansing, thus criminal. In the context of WW2, it matters, although border formalities have since been reduced.
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  1437. @Willy Ekerslike Fortunately, there is the UN so no need to guess. All peoples have the right to self-determination.
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  1438.  @gengis737  Not just Germany. A number of countries, such as the Soviet Union. You should google the Battle of Helsinki.
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  1439. I was going to complain about Jagdpanzer V production volumes, but 400 would be enough for smaller countries like Finland or Switzerland even through the 1950s. Finland had already switched sides, so it was too late to buy Jagdpanzers. Moreover, the Soviets demanded demobilization, so Stug III was their only option in 1944. Nevertheless, sergeant major Reino Lehväslaiho (1922-2019) participated in the Battle of Tornio with a captured T-34.
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  1440. Sylvester: No no. No Sir, it's all about economics. Klaus: don't worry, life goes on. Heil Hitler! *commits suicide Helmut licks his finger and holds it up. "Aah, the wind is blowing from the east".
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  1441. More specifically, Indo-Europeans. Even though people living in certain areas are not subspecies, they are never identical.
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  1442.  @SmotritelMayaka29  But the difference is that WW2 happened 75 years ago. Communists still have concentration camps in North Korea.
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  1443.  @SmotritelMayaka29  I'm not that old, but I know what “take you behind the sauna” really means https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Finland#In_Post-war_Finland
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  1444.  @SmotritelMayaka29  But why on earth would you be on the losing side. We have lived in abundance for the last 100 years. In fact, nothing has happened in my hometown (lake region of Finland) since 1809. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Helsinki_in_World_War_II
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  1445.  @SmotritelMayaka29  That's your standard of living. This is my lifestyle: https://tinyurl.com/y54x33br
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  1446.  @SmotritelMayaka29  Russian drunk drivers, speeding and / or road safety hazards in Finland: https://youtu.be/RQj8QTBpvdI
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  1447. Funny because Friedrich Paulus was a commie.
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  1448. Amen. People who try to justify Dresden are the same people who molest sheeps.
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  1449. Amen. Chamberlain has become a mythical figure. A defender only needs third of the troops of what an attacker needs to keep the area safe. France alone could have stopped Germany
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  1450.  @peterbennet7145  Paris was declared an open city by the French Government. They didn't even fight for it, because the alternative would have been going back to the stone age. Not that I blame them for collaborating, but they thought like any empire and not like "the way of the warrior". As I recall, Stalin has also mentioned this, although they deny everything in retrospect if the statement is not recorded.
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  1451. These conspiracy theories stem from Fritz Thyssen's attempt to bribe the Nazis. He was immediately robbed in 1939 and arrested in France in 1940, so clearly they were not together.
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  1452.  Slawa Wacker  I'm sure some people say Nikolai created the Communists. Nevertheless, Mannerheim was the last czar standing.
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  1453. When ‘better’ forces drop napalm on you in 1939, it’s complicated.
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  1454. @lati long If you bundle France with Britain, Vietnam will become the enemy. Saigon's administrative services had collapsed, and a loosely controlled Viet Minh-led group had seized power. Not to mention the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947–1948.
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  1455. Good point, there are so many NCOs that they are often overlooked in these documentaries. This 100 year old SS-Rottenführer is quite experienced, looks like a skull in his hat : )...Veikko Kasslin also fought against the Germans and Austrians in Lapland. He won the National Cycling Championship (Workers' Sports Federation) in 1945, which might explain his long life. https://www.suomensotilas.fi/ss-mies-veikko-kasslin-100-vuotta/
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  1456.  @allangibson8494  They pretty much annihilated the Soviet Union. We just have to put on an act like we've lost because someone came up with a contraceptive pill in the 1960s.
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  1457. They would drink brandy instead of vodka
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  1458. Let's be honest, "Gucci gang" versus 352. Infanterie-Division...Only Nukes matter.
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  1459.  @freedomfrogs4847  Well, they're both NATO
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  1460.  @freedomfrogs4847  You could say that. In the case of Finland, either NATO or EU membership makes sense. It's not necessary to pay for duplicate fire insurance.
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  1461. Maybe this can't be called hyperinflation, but Finland had 60% inflation in 1946. Very similar political situation as in Germany after WW1. The USSR had a nuclear weapon, so it was unrealistic for the Nazis to recapture Vyborg. Also, Russian fascist lost territories after withdrawing its troops from Germany and the Baltics in 1994. In short, war reparations and corruption. Slightly incorrect to talk about socialism, because often these countries are right wing like Argentina.Venezuelans make money by selling drugs, of course, no taxes are paid. Homeowners are not affected by inflation, so personal tax may well be 0%.
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  1462.  Doctor Detroit  Nor did the Americans have proper winter clothes, which is always alarming.
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  1463.  @demosthenessirony4774  Private corporations, such as Studebaker, provided some 60 Soviet divisions. Studebaker's stock was included in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
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  1464. Fanaticleanliness? 😜
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  1465. Many of them had already received basic training across Europe. Granted, at the upper levels the officers were mostly Germans. For example, Herman Brown from St. Petersburg was probably discriminated against, thus never promoted. He was small, dark, Slavic-looking SS artilleryman. Brown was trained in Finland together with Christopher Lee. According to André Swanström, a leftist docent, almost half were Nazi supporters, so half were not fanatical. Obviously, first response folks suffer more than a kitchenette behind them.
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  1466.  @Bogatyr92  Commies are red though
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  1467.  @TheImperatorKnight  Notice Hitler has a big cross on his pocket. Generations born in the 1920s and before were highly religious. In 1950, 95% of the DDR citizens were  Christians. Also, Buß- und Bettag (Day of Repentance and Prayer) was a public holiday in Nazi Germany, and is still a public holiday in Saxony. I’m not claiming that Hitler was a believer, but these are facts.
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  1468. When compared to modern politicians like Kersti Kaljulaid, I think logical conclusion is that Hitler was an agnostic. Not possible to be both authoritarian and anti-Christian in a fully Christian society, unless you believe in conspiracy theories.
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  1469. You are falsely interpreting geography. Minna Canth had the right to vote in the 1870s. Very progressive system. Some could say too progressive. China was a hundred years behind in the 1960s.
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  1470.  @bigburd875  It's complicated: https://tinyurl.com/y5jqfnyo
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  1471. Period of mass starvation from 1994 to 1998 in North Korea
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  1472. I would not have even participated in the negotiations. They are quite mixed in Central Europe. Vienna to Bratislava train journey takes as little as 59 minutes to arrive in Bratislava.
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  1473.  @fazole  They only lost the media war by supporting Catholic fascists in Buddhist country. However, not on the battlefield.
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  1474. I could certainly vote for Väinö Tanner (SDP). Abolition of conscription means refusing to serve in the Russian army, which I agree with. Only thing I disagree is Prohibition of alcohol. Most of these can be done well, that is avoiding the Dutch disease. Forssa Program (1903): 1. Universal suffrage, proportional representation, unicameralism and secret ballot 2. Direct democracy 3. Freedom of association, assembly, speech and the press 4. Free and mandatory education 5. Separation of church and state and abolition of religious education 6. Introduction of a progressive income tax 7. Free trial and legal aid and compensation for false indictments 8. Publicly funded health care 9. Abolition of conscription and promotion of pacifism 10. Gender equality under law 11. Prohibition of alcohol
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  1475. Since you are doing alternative history, why don't we deviate from reality at some other moment. Why does it have to be 1942? What if Fritz Darges steals a nuke and establishes hermit kingdom in the Alps in 1963?
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  1476. I don't think so. Nuclear weapons were the deciding factor. Conventional insurgency continued until Stalin died, and they didn't have nukes until 1948-49. Patton: "They could probably maintain themselves in the type of fighting I could give them for five days. After that it would make no difference how many million men they have, and if you wanted Moscow I could give it to you."
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  1477. Depends on how winning is defined. You know, Finland covers a larger area than the British Isles. In 1990, after the reunification of Germany, Mauno Koivisto unilaterally renounced the terms of the Paris Peace Treaties.
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  1478.  @fatherelijahcal9620  Germany and Italy have been finally compelled, in view of this, and in loyalty to the Tri-Partite act, to carry on the struggle against the U.S.A. side by side with Japan. -AH
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  1479. Kekkonen once took some soil of his cottage to Moscow as a gift. Maybe it would have been vulgar to put Finnish sand on Churchill’s coffin?
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  1480.  @kaletovhangar  Problem is that they had resentment against each other right from the start. If you ask a kyrgyz, you will get a different answer than from Ukraine. Btw. There are more people in Kyrgyzstan than in Finland.
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  1481.  @Mavo936  After examining the matter, I would say the nazi party was socialist. The top personal income tax rate was close to present Denmark and Sweden. In the 1930s, (democratic and national liberal) Finland had a lower tax rate than Germany. https://www.quora.com/What-was-the-highest-income-taxation-rate-in-Nazi-Germany
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  1482. Many are unaware that Denmark pursued a libertarian economic policy in 1931. Keynesian demand management was barred by a small public sector, only about 13 percent of GDP.  Libertarians like Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Neville Chamberlain were doomed from the start. Also, son JFK believed that the tax cut would stimulate consumer demand. "For thirteen extraordinary days in October of 1962, the world stood on the brink of an unthinkable catastrophe." Today, that is equally true of conservatives in Russia. They only respect power. Although there is a lot going on in Ukraine, Russia's behavior is very similar than before. Movies that make you paranoid: -April 9th (2015) -Thirteen Days (2000) -JFK (1991) -Package (1989) -Manchurian Candidate (2004) -Hunting Party (2007)
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  1483.  @CA-jz9bm  In Finland, lucky prisoners were sent to farm work. A bit like Uncle Ben in the USA. https://hs.mediadelivery.fi/img/658/f7b4f4e679a74e8ba367a871356f78c8.jpg.webp
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  1484. I feel like smart people always yearn for a republican system, even though it doesn’t seem to be a perfect system. A little effort is surprisingly enough. Such a beautiful language: https://youtu.be/eC27f2094qU
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  1485. You probably mean isolationism vs imperialism. Both can be nationalist or patriotic. How patriotic is it to support a Georgian dictator?
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  1486.  @pulsaran  Technically speaking, northern Finland was occupied. If Germany had won, most likely Eastern Karelia would have been annexed to Finland. One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter, as they say.
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  1487.  @pulsaran  The answer is: it's a matter of opinion who is a nationalist. Are you claiming Søren Kam was a globalist, because he was born in Denmark and supported Germany?
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  1488.  @pulsaran  Are you saying that Heinrich Himmler was a patriot and a model citizen in every way, and by no means a traitor?
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  1489.  @pulsaran  They were National Socialists. Very simple.
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  1490. There were more people in the Axis countries. Germany won the Battle of Stalingrad.
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  1491.  @nedkelly4825  U.S. intervention emptied all of Northern Europe of the Reds. They were starving and didn't have enough men to maintain the Hanko naval base. Not to mention Yanks could nuke Moscow.
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  1492.  @toby2581  Certainly there were nice individuals with a sense of humor like Rolf Labbart and Horst Tappert. However, leaders like Ernst Kaltenbrunner failed in many ways.
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  1493. It’s not my intention to insult, but is Jan a woman’s name?
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  1494. Really far-right extremism when you go full circle and come out as a Stalinist. Give Dönitz a nuke and he'll bring the trophy back home.
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  1495. Could you explain the horseshoe theory to us peasants. Might be an interesting topic
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  1496.  @sillypuppy5940  I loved Stalingrad until I realized that the 30-years' war was more brutal.
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  1497. "Not one man has as yet returned, who could express any other opinion than that if a Socialistic State were in the process of being realized anywhere, it was in Germany only that it was actually taking place. That is still another reason why this other world which so willingly represents capitalistic interests in particular, is attacking us.." -AH This reminds me of the KKK, because that's how it was born. East Germany was National Socialist 1953-1982. Death sentences were no longer carried out in the late 1980s and since 1994 a full member of NATO.
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  1498. Czechoslovakia and Poland annexed all of the Liechtenstein's properties in Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia. Deliberate or not?
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  1499.  @joeylonglegs4309  Are you claiming that Nazi Germany had freer media than the United States
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  1500. I don't think Dwight Eisenhower had the authority to change policy. William D. Leahy and Harry Truman promised to continue as FDR would have wanted.
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  1501. Multicultural narrative is typical of him. A bit like the U.S. Civil War. Lincoln won, but he was assassinated. Gangs of New York is what actually happened.
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  1502. 21:00 Would you buy a used Mercedes from Mohnke?
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  1503. US aid to China was signed in March 1941. Lend-lease should have sounded the alarm bells, as production was and still is higher than in the EU
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  1504.  @TheImperatorKnight  I don’t think you can compare current oil engineers with their iPhones to Gulag archipelago. Centrist solution is to expell most of them and keep a few talented individuals.
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  1505. No worries so far. Lack of clothing and food becomes dangerous when the temperature drops below -15 degrees Celsius. One cold and windy night outside is enough to cause death. After that it won't help even if the next day is warm.
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  1506. Of course, in boggy terrain, a horse is better than a tank.
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  1507. Btw. Panssarivaunu in Finnish. In other words, an armored wagon
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  1508. Yet less taxes than in Europe. I would buy a rifle, arable land and sell chickens.
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  1509.  @n00btotale  "where does socialism stop" In practice, it's not clear whether person is a mercenary or not, as economic and political interests may overlap. For example, many Waffen-SS veterans served with the French Foreign Legion during the First Indochina War. Major Siegfried Müller wore his WW2 Iron Cross First Class on his operations in the Congo https://youtu.be/NB9gyyVrbxk
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  1510.  @reuvenpolonskiy2544  In short, remove democracy from the democrats and the end result is the Nazi party.
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  1511.  Derek Mitchell  Currency is a medium of exchange. Generally, most of the wealth is in real estate, but tenants' entire assets can be wiped out by hyperinflation.
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  1512.  Derek Mitchell  My original point was that the organization and funding of WW2 era major armies was almost identical. Hyperinflation is socialism, taxation is socialism and conscription is a tax.
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  1513. A nice game of Capture the Flag.
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  1514. A fitting example, because it is an uninhabited pile of rocks that were returned to Japan. Perhaps the conflict could have been limited to a smaller area. In any case, War is more like a forest fire than a source of income.
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  1515. Peter Thiel's lecture "competion is for losers" is eye-opening. Everyone are or should be aiming for the monopoly. Many Asian countries are quite free, unregulated and competitive, yet they have not succeeded in becoming prosperous on the scale of western countries. On the other hand, basic research doesn't generate capital, that's why Einstein's research generated less wealth than Twitter.
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  1516. The Siege of Leningrad defeated the Nazis. -100% of communist losses happened in the east. You're as bad at math as I am 😆
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  1517. Yes there is Eastern Europe, although Belarus is a geographical center. Moscow is the largest city in Europe.
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  1518. Really? Ever since the development of GDP, multiple observers have pointed out limitations of using GDP as the overarching measure of economic and social progress. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Underworld
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  1519. Creation is in the Old Testament. Although I have attended a Catholic church, I know better "the Awakening" lifestyle, which is moderately anti-tech and pacifist. Basically everyone is POS. Perkele was removed from the bible, because it was considered anti-Finnish. Also, meek has been translated to forbearing. John is Johannes etc.
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  1520. I would say, Keynes: liberal socialist Hitler: autocratic socialist Stalin: autocratic communist Mannerheim: liberal capitalist Churchill: authoritarian capitalist FDR: liberal capitalist (populist) Mussolini: autocratic capitalist Putin: autocratic capitalist
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  1521.  @TheImperatorKnight  Ferrari managed to manufacture two cars for the 1940 endurance race. Italy has always been very individualistic and corrupt. National income policy agreement (Finland) was inspired by Mussolini's corporatism, but it's not the same. Eventually, Mussolini was a puppet.
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  1522. LOL 7:49 Tolerant Soviet Russia "elected" a Georgian leader. Nope. Did not work. Well, back to Slavic (race) leaders, who own all the factories and farms of every nation.
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  1523. Co-operation between Finland and Britain is deepening. Hopefully this means RAF and the Royal Swedish Air Force, not just empty promises. During the Continuation War, men born in 1900 were sent home in January 1942. To quote Roger Murtaugh, "I'm Getting Too Old For This Shit"
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  1524. Do you almost feel depressed about German loss? Don't bother. Usually, rank insignia is pinned on the collar of the combat uniform. Any claim that the Army has reached its egalitarian, meritocratic ideal is premature 😁 https://youtu.be/2oEJSl3NkVE
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  1525. God bless the USA "...not all of Hitler’s chief deputies mindlessly and heedlessly agreed with the evils of the Third Reich. Indeed, a few German officials supported, organized, and attempted the overthrow and assassination of Hitler. Most notably, Chief of the Army General Staff Franz Halder" https://www.roberthjackson.org/article/franz-halder-diaries/
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  1526.  @williamwimmer5473  lol that's just me being polite. Merry Christmas 🎄& May God bless you
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  1527. I feel like they were qualified at this point, but in a country suitable for defense, it is not physically possible to progress below 1:3 k / d. Marshal Leonid Govorov criticized heavily the commanders when the offensive had not yielded any concrete results despite of the intolerably heavy casualties. They themselves talk about the swamp to this day. More than 100,000 lakes and who knows how many islands, still rising from the sea.
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  1528.  @CA-jz9bm  Every tuber: monsters!! Canadian Quebec Superior Court judge: "Further, in the absence of evidence of participation or knowledge of specific war crimes, mere membership in the Galicia Division is insufficient to justify prosecution"
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  1529.  @CA-jz9bm  Wiesenthal report revealed that not all Jews and Slavs were unarmed. Also, the USSR did not ratify Geneva Convention. Ex post facto laws are expressly forbidden by the United States Constitution. In 1942, United States Supreme Court: "...who without uniform comes secretly through the lines for the purpose of waging war by destruction of life or property, are familiar examples of belligerents who are generally deemed not to be entitled to the status of prisoners of war".
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  1530.  @CA-jz9bm  Obviously he was right. The reality is more complex than caricatures created by Hollywood.
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  1531.  @CA-jz9bm  As well as Django Unchained. Although I prefer European cinema, the US isn't completely isolated.Lieutenant Colonel Carl von Haartman starred in Hollywood films. During WW2, he was a liaison officer in the AOK Lappland HQ. He propably knew about Einsatzkommando Finnland and Stalag 309.
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  1532. Crimea reminds me of German occupation of the Channel Islands. I think Putin would have been a collaborator. On the other hand, Stalin disciplined Ukraine and allied with China.
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  1533.  @dointh4198  Spring 1945 offensive in Italy. I remember Bob Dole told how he was knocked down almost immediately by a german MG.
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  1534. Chavez's opinion was very Eurocentrist. Although the term junta comes from Spain, it's associated with South American fascism. In China, KMT's strength was 4.3 million in the summer of 1946. They were not deported until 1949. Moreover, fascism was only slightly and temporarily limited in Europe. Russia's ruling United Russia party retained its majority in the Moscow assembly, being the largest city entirely in Europe.
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  1535.  @danielturner4912  "There is an established expression in Finnish for such 'facts', they are simply called lies." -Urho Kekkonen
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  1536.  @danielturner4912  Obviously, we discuss WW2 and its consequences. As the leader of a major Allied power, Chiang Kai-shek is most well known for being a political and military dictator. There are so many fascists in Latin America alone that they cannot be listed here.
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  1537.  @danielturner4912  Don’t ask if you don’t want to hear nasty facts. Venezuela declared war on the Axis powers in February 1945. Most Axis countries had already declared war on Germany in 1944. Venezuela is just a failed narco-state, small and isolated.
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  1538.  @danielturner4912  I voted for Finns. Historically, Veikko Vennamo was a critic of authoritarian Urho Kekkonen and of political corruption. Search "Pientalonpoikain marssi" on youtube.
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  1539. The Vietnam War was actually Oklahoma and South Vietnam vs North Vietnam. They indeed had butter and beer. For example, the US murder rate was higher in 2018 than annual American losses in Vietnam.
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  1540.  @melgross  The Vietnam war was a disaster for Vietnam. In fact, 2018 was a pretty normal year in the US. I would downright restrict immigration from the US to Europe.
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  1541. Well, Japan is post religious society. They don't use forks or know anything about Christianity. However, 80% of the populace follow Shinto rituals to some degree. I think the Philippines is culturally quite familar, albeit southern.
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  1542. Interesting article and video about a Finnish fascist. According to his chart, farmers would have been overrepresented. Google: Thread on Paavo Susitaival (Sivén) [1896-1993] and his lifetime of activism. Technically speaking, the Agrarian Union held power for a long time, but they had better relations with the USSR.
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  1543. When you draw a circle anywhere called a state, it's never the same. Israel became its own country, so it was both a civil war and an ethnic conflict.
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  1544. Read the McCollum memo. FDR wanted to turn public opinion in favor of war.
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  1545. Brazil was probably the first South American country to declare war on Germany in 1942, if we don't count Central America
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  1546. In most countries, there are fines that can be paid to get out of jail. Chauvinistan is ok, but I don't pretend it's the best. Less often it is the best, like Liechtenstein
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  1547. Socialist George W. Bush revealed his self-loathing by saying "Brutal invasion of Iraq".
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  1548.  @personaa422  There is no famine in Venezuela, therefore it's not real communism. Venezuela is more like Mexico than North Korea. Whatever you want to call them. Narco-state, ancap, anarcho-communism etc. Just because a Volkswagen broke down doesn’t mean you couldn’t drive an Audi. Nazbol society worked just fine in the second round. https://suomenpresidentit.fi/kekkonen/?lang=en
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  1549.  @personaa422  That’s why they are downright obese. We probably all agree that East Germany was white, nationalist and socialist dictatorship?
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  1550. The Italians are better than reds. They lost less than France
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  1551.  @caryblack5985  Yeah, I know a very convincing video about it on youtube. If I were gullible, I might think that the USSR exists.
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  1552. On the contrary, they tend to scatter the people, but I have also seen on Russian TV that leaving from Leningrad was prohibited. It also depends on how much corruption there was in the Soviet Union. Order No. 227: "We have lost more than 70 million people"
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  1553.  @artiombeknazaryan7542  Honestly, we know they are all clowns since 1323. It's just not polite to mock Russian leaders.
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  1554.  @artiombeknazaryan7542  You don't understand the historical context, feudalism was normal back then. The first European country to introduce women's suffrage was the Grand Duchy of Finland in 1906. China did not reach the same level until the 1990s.
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  1555. Hand signal works fine when a nearby guy repeats it. Especially in modern times since soldiers are grouped together like the police.
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  1556. Actually quite sad. Similar situation as in Afghanistan, but Kabul was occupied for 10 years by the USSR and later again for 20 years, so a total of 30 years. Vienna was occupied for only 10 years. As I recall, adultery was decriminalized in the 1990s. Austria opened its gates to Europe in 1997.
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  1557. This video shows well why Gebirgsjäger battalion carry less equipment than a motorized unit: https://youtu.be/OQEVbhcrNWk
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  1558. Technically speaking, everything is capitalism. Stalin and the king are both owners. An unemployed citizen is also an owner. Social security is just a smaller dividend than the King's share. Not to mention Stalin's exorbitant dividend that caused bankruptcy and famine.
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  1559. Major General Mathias Kräutler was fully operational in a much colder climate, a year later in January 1944. Unlike Paulus, he had the necessary skills to lead troops in difficult conditions.
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  1560. As former and still breathing conscript, it can also be seen as life insurance.
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  1561.  @oddballsok  Without downplaying the Allied invasion of Sicily, there were not enough resources for a landing on either side in winter -44. The American theater of operations was quite pointless, which is why there was an anti - conscription mood in Canada.
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  1562.  @michaelkovacic2608  How Joachim Peiper drank Hennessy was a war crime, directly from the bottle. I can imagine him face planting after that.
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  1563. He is a good artist
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  1564. Many Ukrainians fought in the Winter War, that's why relations were not good in 1941.
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  1565. A bit like Turkey vs Afghanistan. The Taliban have better logistics
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  1566. Maybe that's why they merely sterilized Africans. I think they would be the first group to be gathered in a concentration camp.
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  1567.  @utvara1  The Juche ideology is specifically national-socialist. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers%27_Party_of_Korea#Allegations_of_xenophobia
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  1568.  @dragosstanciu9866  Other options for Britain: 1. Supports Axis 2. Fights both at different times 3. Declares neutrality Now that I checked, the British did fight against smaller communist forces from 1944 onwards.
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  1569.  @dragosstanciu9866  No, they were somewhat behind. It wasn’t until sometime in 1948-49 that a Fatman-style bomb was completed in the USSR. The Greek Civil War, Operation Masterdom, Corfu Channel incident, Malayan Emergency were limited confrontations against communists, before the Korean war.
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  1570. According to National Geographic, Jews have never existed
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  1571. I have come to the same conclusion. The NSDAP was a socialist party. Germany would have invaded Southern Finland, if there was a land connection from Copenhagen to Helsinki.
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  1572. @Erich Kirk Finland had a population of 80,000 during the early Middle Ages, and grew slowly but surely into empire. However, the last famine was 80 years before the Soviet famine.
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  1573. @Erich Kirk If the Tsar had lived, perhaps the last famine would have occurred in 1920s. Obviously in the Siberian climate, some people die anyway.
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  1574. Éamon de Valera, Urho Kekkonen, Alfons Gorbach, Ludwig Erhard and Walter Ulbricht were present at Churcill's funeral. LBJ was ill at the time. What a sight.
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  1575. I think it is a legitimate question. I define market economy with authoritarian rule as fascism. Russia, for example, has a 13% flat tax. The overall tax burden equals 20.1% in Ukraine. That's why it's not so simple. Swastika is Hindu symbol, therefore circumstantial evidence. Also, local legislation is usually enough. Supranational laws are unnecessary. After the War, Väinö Tanner (Social Democratic Party of Finland) was tried for responsibility for the war in February 1946, and sentenced to five years and six months in prison. President Paasikivi pardoned him in May 1949. C.P. Kryssing, brigadier general of the Waffen-SS, was released in May 1948, one year earlier than Tanner.
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  1576. Finnish builders also worked in Murmansk and Estonia, but they were paid full wages, and later a Finnish company even bought a KGB hotel for themselves.
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  1577. He sees Nazism and Communism as alike, both socialism. Personally, I sympathize with smaller countries because they are not imperialist in nature.
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  1578.  @thomashjensen1556  From Denmark, they could potentially have gathered 500,000 men, but in reality less than a division of volunteers. In addition, a couple of companies in Finnish uniforms. Outright luxury treatment compared to Finnish experience, not to mention total destruction of Poland.
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  1579.  @zahfa7608  Take a look how Werner Best dressed. Shiny Mercedes-Benz and a black uniform, although it should have been gray during the war. Best was appointed the Third Reich's Plenipotentiary in occupied Denmark
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  1580.  @valkyrie9553  Yeah, because the Finnish language is not Indo-European. Latin Sclavus comes from Byzantine Greek Σκλάβος (Sklábos), means caucasian slavery that did take place at the time.
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  1581. Of course, the Allies had it. They are the planet earth.
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  1582.  @rickden8362  I agree. However, Artturi Virtanen received the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his fodder preservation method in 1945. As I recall, the method had already been sold, which helped food production in the US mainland.
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  1583. In many places, it is dangerous to talk about modern history, so this will continue forever, but maybe we’ll get to the 1960s in twenty years.
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  1584.  @berndberndsen5680  The human species is quite a complex matter. Check out Dr. Edward Dutton's Channel, If you want to know more about anthropology.
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  1585.  @caryblack5985  Germany won WW2, that's why the good guys lost
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  1586. Japan, Thailand and Italy were monarchies. Finland, Germany and Austria were republics. However, most Finns were so-called fellow travelers, excluding pro-German resistance movement in Finland.
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  1587. If Himmler’s actions were due to stupidity, every second person would be like him.
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  1588. Rather, Britain was a secondary threat and Germany is not a maritime power, hence WW1 rematch. In my opinion, Pat Buchanan is the more credible historian on this area.
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  1589.  @erictull2089  While I’m not a big fan of them, the U.S. has supported democracies and, more specifically, republics. Someone claimed North Korea as a republic, but it is actually an autocracy. I would like to remind you that the USA never declared war on Finland.
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  1590.  @BobSmith-pn2yo  Monty is not overrated but Giovanni Messe is underrated. Deaths as % of 1939 population UK 0.9% Italy 1.1% France 1.4%
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  1591. I think it would be interesting to hear who, is a Nazi general. All Germans, all Europeans? Kim Il-sung became a Major in the Soviet Red Army. Truman ended racial segregation, then fought the Communists in Korea.
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  1592. Speaking of historical myths, the Italian army. Expectations: https://youtu.be/hKbutQ7wZ6M Reality: https://youtu.be/p6jjj08GOOQ
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  1593. I guess you’re a socialist with a bad self-esteem
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  1594.  @deanegoltermann155  Really? So what's the problem? You you might as well say cannibalism was reactionary during the most recent Ice Age.
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  1595. Three points in no particular order: 1. The 20th Mountain Army froze in its positions for the winter of 1944-45, thus it was dissolved in Norway after Germany surrendered. 2. Wishful thinking about Czechoslovakia's transformation into a social democracy lowered fighting morale. 3. War fatigue, moonshine and prostitution ended FDR's legacy of strict economic policies, thus the far "right" fell out of favor. Also, the new legislation was fair compared to the Nazis.
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  1596. As of 2020, the British Army comprises 80,000 regular full-time personnel. For comparison, the Swiss Armed Forces consist of 120,500 people on active duty. One could even say Neville Chamberlain is the founding father of Great Britain.
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  1597. Hitler’s physical condition must be taken into account when comparing the alternative post-war world. Mao, Hồ Chí Minh, Pol Pot, Kim Il-sung's division, etc. Countless mass murderers on the allied side. Not nearly as clear case.
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  1598.  @rickglorie  Anastasio Somoza García, Fulgencio Batista, Jorge Ubico, Gualberto Villarroel etc.
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  1599.  @rickglorie  Your fascist friends
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  1600.  @rickglorie  What about İskender kebap? I don't know half of them either. Iskander Mirza (Branch/service: British Indian Army) held that Pakistanis "lacked the parliamentary spirit and because of the lack of training in the field of democracy and the low literacy rate among the masses, democratic institutions cannot flourish in Pakistan"
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  1601.  @אדםגולוב  That must be true. I met a Jewish girl this summer, for the first time in my life, and I'm already over forty.
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  1602.  @AM-cm2kj  Why would Korea strike? It's a totalitarian dictatorship, you never know.
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  1603.  @Koelebig  Bulgarians are a South Slavic ethnic group. They switched sides after the July plot, in September 1944.
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  1604.  @SchmulKrieger  Battle of Tornio (October 1–8, 1944). The actual declaration of war was postponed to 1945
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  1605. I don't know about that, but nothing happened in Finland. We are the First Nation. More specifically, Finns are the first people in southern Finland. Sami are the first people in Eastern Finland.
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  1606. Dresden is located less than 50 kilometers from the Czech Republic. They probably weren't even German.
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  1607. There are more surviving monarchs in continental Europe under the influence of Nazi Germany, which makes me think that socialism was not so far advanced. Please correct me, if you know about the monarchs of Eastern Europe. Apparently, George VI, was invited to the Soviet Union by Josef Stalin but turned it down.
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  1608. The S-32 folder sounds like it could be part of the Operation Mockingbird. Finland has too many connections to America, since 1943.
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  1609. I still have respect for both Helmut Schmidt and Kurt Waldheim, but I would not vote for the latter. Saints and Soldiers (2003) is quite well written.
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  1610. You have became the very thing you swore to destroy, said Obi-Wan Kenobi. Walter Ulbricht began to push for party unification after the poor performance of communist parties in elections in Hungary and Austria in November 1945. Like it or not, they became "red-painted  Nazis".
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  1611.  @SusCalvin  Uncensored "Tuntematon sotilas" on netflix with Scandinavian subtitles 👍
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  1612.  @thurin84  Right-wing and socialism are not mutually exclusive
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  1613.  @thurin84  I am a supporter of Sakari Puisto. He has a PhD from the University of Cambridge. National conservatives lean towards nationalism and cultural conservatism, while opposing  multiculturalism. They are closer to the centre than other right wingers, specifically in economic matters.
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  1614.  @TheImperatorKnight  Some BBC videos have Finnish subtitles, which was a nice surprise https://youtu.be/y8wdynZ0iWg
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  1615. ​ @vaporwavevocap The king of Amazon has monopoly on violence. He locks you in a cage, then boils and eats you. Isn't that the same thing?
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  1616.  @Earl_Robinson_UK  Technically, theft is not Stalinism if it targets whites. There are probably some black nationalists involved, although the majority are indeed left-wing populists.
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  1617. Tik should state briefly what he stands for.
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  1618. Stalin: "*all* of you." Hitler: [twirls his finger] You know, all of you...[bends over and points] Can kiss my German ass! All of you.
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  1619.  @johnburns4017  It's complicated, because Lithuania has long been under Polish influence, not to mention the Soviet Union. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Euler_Diagram_for_Baltoscandia.jpg
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  1620. A surprising number of Peter the Great's "raindrop" coins have also been found in Finland due to The Great Northern War (1700–1721). Around 11 min, a Swedish coin from 1747: https://youtu.be/tA4QlK7svMo
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  1621. I would guess that half of them were Social Democrats and most of them were born after the Civil War. Perhaps they were the key to Finland's success, albeit numerically insignificant group. On the other hand, the alliance with Japan merely made Axis' position more difficult. Effective diplomacy might have changed the course of war. Stalinists cannot be turned around, but the mutual persecution of Social Democrats may also explain why millions of Germans surrendered, though the democratic future of Czechoslovakia turned out to be a lie.
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  1622. When spears were used as weapons, everything worked out naturally, but the Tsar-bomba was a completely different beast. Natural selection is the force for change, not the individual's conscious decision. http://www.bio.miami.edu/tom/courses/bil160/bil160goods/16_rKselection.html Poor countries tend to have higher levels of fertility than rich countries. https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2016/december/link-fertility-income
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  1623. Imagine if there were no Polish navy. That would make the whole war unnecessary. I cheer for you while enjoying an Irish stout at the pub.
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  1624. Also, Rotterdam is not related to England in any way. Why are they even talking about it? Same as Sweden attacking London because of the Mau Mau uprising.
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  1625. Prague was captured and sacked in 1648 by Swedish troops
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  1626. While Sabaton has its place, I like the March of Charles XII, in Narva (gloomy Ulfberht man). 😂 https://youtu.be/llwpV1VV-Uk
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  1627. The Nazis were capitalists at first, but ended up imprisoning some industrial leaders. Fritz Thyssen and his wife Amelie spent the whole war in a concentration camp. They remind me of how the USA drifted into statism. After the September 11 attacks, George Bush enacted the Patriot Act. Not to mention nationalization in Russia. That being said. The Iraq war 2003-2011 was NOT a NATO operation. US airspace control after the terrorist attack in New York in 2001-2002 WAS a NATO operation, as the defense alliance is supposed to do. NATO Press Releases: "This marked the first invocation of Article 5, which had been written during the Cold War with an attack by the Soviet Union in mind."
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  1628. I haven't heard that before. I have nothing against peaceful segregation. Meaning, defense cooperation combined with local democracy.
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  1629. Finnish Radio intelligence helped the Germans in September 1942 when they passed on information about a large Allied convoy, PQ 18, of 40 ships on its way to Murmansk. The Germans managed to sink thirteen merchant ships. They didn't blindly help the Germans every time, but these weapons were a direct threat to Finland.
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  1630. Certainly in an agrarian society, Lebensraum thinking is logical. However, humans are omnivores, not carnivores.
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  1631. How do you rationalize the assassination of Boris Nemtsov?
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  1632. British India declared war on Nazi Germany.
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  1633. I wouldn't have raised my weapon if the enemy had been any other than the Anti-Christ -Mauno Koivisto
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  1634.  @johnburns4017  At times, it is difficult to recognize what is National Socialism due to varying symbols, non compos mentis, or because the political agenda is in practice organized crime. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neozapatismo https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_rebellion_in_the_Philippines
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  1635.  @johnburns4017  Finland definitely had national-socialist features from 1973 to 1982, albeit Urho Kekkonen was somewhat more educated than average dictator. He was accused of collaborating with Stalin, which he denied by referring to Dr. Söderhjelm's book "Tre resor till Moskva". According to Kekkonen, there was only one historical truth.
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  1636.  @Anthony-jo7up  If 3.3 million people had left then, Finland would have been finished as a country, so to speak.
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  1637.  @Anthony-jo7up  Mariupol is almost the size of Dresden. Kiev is larger than Paris.
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  1638. Exactly. How to withdraw fanatically? If anyone is fanatic, it’s the Red Army. Also, the Italians, lost less than most countries and switched sides, are anything but fanatical and incompetent. That being said, einsatzgruppen and some individuals like Mengele or Goethe are fanatical or just mentally ill.
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  1639. Amen. I have to stop commenting these, because the enemy is making a mistake. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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  1640. To my understanding, Polish government-in-exile didn't declare war on Finland, which was pretty crazy considering they were staying in London. They remained in the United Kingdom until 1990.
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  1641. Probably some Ukrainian Nazi village is buying right now, but it is not an empire. An army is needed to build one
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  1642.  @andyboa8107  From Finland 's point of view, the goal was to improve security, which was better in 1944 than in 1940.
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  1643. I don't remembet many Freemasons off the top of my head, but I wouldn't call them socialists. Risto Ryti, the fifth president of Finland, was essentially a classical liberal. Nikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov,  a Russian  liberal politician. Randall Carlson, geomythologist. Neville Chamberlain, a British politician.
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  1644. Well said. American politics is toxic because one party always dominates. In a multi-party system, parties cooperate more and corrupt individuals are easier to expose. We are scared only if the fascists wear certain symbols, otherwise we are completely credulous. There are also many negatives associated with individualism, such as poverty and crime. In my opinion, the danger of authoritarianism is essential. I am pretty sure that independent South Africa or even Kazakhstan would not have declared war on Finland.
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  1645.  @daveharrison4697  There is no logical reason to continue. The UK is a maritime power and would lose one-on-one fight against Germany. Lithuania  was  occupied by the Soviet army on 16 June 1940, which violated their mutual agreement.
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  1646.  @daveharrison4697  British Expeditionary Force was smaller than the Finnish army. The Germans took hostages many times with rather poor results. Paying ransom is a fairly recent phenomenon, started just in recent decades. Besides you said it yourself that the soldiers refused to continue, because they wanted to celebrate their victory
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  1647.  @fazole  I read the same book and he said, boys gave Mao happy ending at night. Maybe you have a censored version?
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  1648. The US Army executed 98 servicemen following General Courts Martial (GCM) for murder and/or rape in the European Theatre of Operations during the Second World War. The only person interred who was not convicted of rape and/or murder was Eddie Slovik, who was executed for desertion. Bearing in mind, the US army was about four times larger than the Finnish army. Those must be the most egregious cases. Finland had similar statistics, but for desertion. Murder/rape was not punishable by death.
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  1649.  @gf6110  I tend to agree with TIK, but I noticed that SS Commander Karl-Erik Ladau came from a noble family. I don't know if that played a part in his rapid promotion. He was the first Finn to take command of an SS company and later became CEO of an insurance company. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varma_Mutual_Pension_Insurance_Company
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  1650. Surely the British will also seize property if it does not promote the British interest. That is one reason why nations even exist. Thus, Churchill was a Nazi.
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  1651. What was the end result in 1945? Adolf "The Socialist" Hitler was gone. Did Europe become more right-wing for a while?
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  1652. If Genopolitics doesn't exist, why does Russia repeat the Ukrainian War of Independence from 100 years ago? Why does Scotland exist? Why doesn't Sanna Marin speak Swedish, even though it's a compulsory subject.
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  1653. Several German weapons and tactics were made for attack, ill-suited for defense. Sten gun was adopted as such into the Finnish army when the British wanted to get rid of it https://youtu.be/EiaurkrYyZI
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  1654. Russia seems to be going Ancap every time the Tsar gets too old. Works better on a tropical island.
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  1655. Can you explain why Russia invaded Vietnam.
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  1656.  @MarshallJukov  "US lost 7 million people in 1930s" Your ally, your problem. There have never been so many people in Finland, so that alone makes Finland a winner nation. Vyborg was lost in 1940, therefore it's impossible to lose it in 1944. Finland lost nothing in 1941-45, but merely schooled the criminals. Oh, and in the next war we'll use Nukes. Moscow and Helsinki will be wiped out in 15 minutes, but that's a small price to pay.
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  1657.  @MarshallJukov  I have to admit they had some great victories, like the siege of Leningrad and the holocaust. That's what we also celebrate every Christmas. Anyway, it's history like the USSR.
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  1658.  @MarshallJukov  Nope. They received promotions, medals and lived happily ever after. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulo_Suorttanen
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  1659.  @MarshallJukov  Actually, it's no wonder Finland won. They were confronted by the SJW army of cowardly nerds.
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  1660.  @MarshallJukov  Soviet Union lost 100% of its territory.
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  1661.  @MarshallJukov  Russia paid Canada $ 20 million. How much to the United States? https://histdoc.net/history/1941-1948/petsamo1944-10-08.html
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  1662.  @MarshallJukov  As for Nukes, we buy bombs directly from Russia, as in the last war. In case of emergency, from France or Pakistan. People do anything for money.
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  1663.  @MarshallJukov  So you paid billions and lost more people than the entire population of Finland. Congratulations lol. Last time I checked Estonia is not part of Russia.
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  1664.  @MarshallJukov  I wouldn't be surprised if you are American. You speak so convincingly for Finland's NATO membership. Perhaps at this stage it's worth giving up and becoming a NATO supporter?
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  1665.  @MarshallJukov  "As you lost access to Barents sea in 1944" Petšenga was a sparsely populated territory of Russian whites. There have been no border formalities between Finland and Norway since the 1950s http://rauha.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/turku.png
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  1666.  @MarshallJukov  Personally, at the moment, I don't consider full membership necessary. Finland has already signed an agreement with NATO that permits assistance from NATO members in situations such as "disasters, disruptions, and threats to security." In addition, Russia has not submitted any territorial claims.
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  1667.  @MarshallJukov  Well maybe it could be a nature park, since Finland is mostly a post-industrial society. I somewhat agree with the locals who are not in favor of building a railway. Representative of the Skolt Sámi Veikko Feodoroff is concerned about the impact on reindeer herding. https://tinyurl.com/rh9s8h4
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  1668.  @MarshallJukov  Apparently, the price of Soviet citizens is one ruble, because 1.3 million Soviet casualties are not considered too high price for some wilderness.
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  1669.  @MarshallJukov  HQ's goal was to make a crusade to the Soviet Union. Finns lost 63,200 soldiers. The Soviet Union kidnapped about two hundred people in the summer of 1940. In total, there were about two thousand civilian casualties. At that time, taxation was low, so there were no significant financial losses. Overall, the crusade was astonishingly successful. Although some refugees returned temporarily to their homes, they cannot be counted as victims of the Continuation War. In any case, by 1944 they had received new housing in Central Finland.
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  1670.  @MarshallJukov  Finland lost -10% when the Germans left the country, but they were not dead. In fact, during the Continuation War, the local population grew every year.
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  1671.  @MarshallJukov  Ingenious. In Finnish, Emperor Nero means genius because he burned Rome : ) Both of my grandparents participated in the Continuation War and survived. Even Grandma's sisters served as Lottas. Zero deaths.
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  1672. Basically, everything was due to industrialization. Americans did not have the ability to influence Europe before WW1. Eventually, the arms trade escalated into a naval war followed by a landing in Normandy
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  1673.  @Norvik_-ug3ge  Adolf Hitler's rise to power began in Germany in September 1919. Still, there was only evacuations in 1940. They didn't use nuclear weapons during The Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, because Mutually assured destruction.
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  1674.  @Norvik_-ug3ge  By evacuation, I meant that the United States was unable to help during the Battle of Dunkirk. Breznev canceled the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the East German National Army, and bribed Urho Kekkonen by transferring oil from Poland to Finland. It was like the Cuban missile crisis which could have led to WW3 without a declaration of war.
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  1675. Tell me when one country that has invaded another country and not bombed cities on purpose. It would be interesting to know that one exception.
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  1676.  @extramild1  Probably not every war. They still used artillery and fire bombs. Sherman notoriously practiced a "scorched earth" policy.
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  1677.  @extramild1  Maybe it was a good joke, but now the joke is on you, if you are white. Synonymous with police. That's going overboard, mate! You're insulting the cops.
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  1678. Keeping Germany down was not a conspiracy but a public announcement
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  1679. I haven't murdered any Jews, so I consider myself a pretty good guy. Catholicism is a world religion. Rather, they are economic liberals. High birth rates manifest as homelessness in warm climates. Likewise, Protestant Finland was a developing country in 1917.
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  1680.  @Norubaki66  Decolonization is too complex subject, but I would say the puppet states were colonized (losers). The Italian Social Republic was a puppet state created by Germany, so Northern Italy was actually an increase in land area, not a loss.
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  1681. Try to do a couple of push-ups first. I say this as someone who pulled a big gun (95 S 58-61) along the Russian border.
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  1682. 2.5 years later, 100,000 people died in Moldova.
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  1683.  @bcamp6088  I think it is childish to give counseling for people who are doing well. Germans are at the heart of Europe, so self-loathing is understandable. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_inequality-adjusted_HDI
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  1684. I'm mostly interested about the economic videos and conspiracies such as McCollum memo, Active measures (Cold war / KGB).
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  1685. Depends on what you mean by the British. Chinese were by far the largest nationality.
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  1686. As if advancing from Poland to Berlin was an achievement.
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  1687. It's not that simple. If Catholicism was equal to Nazism, it would have been banned after WW2. There are more Catholics in Indonesia than in the Nordic countries.
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  1688. Amen. Imagine serving under Vatutin. You would get molten lava in your face under 9min.
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  1689. They can also be fascists. Fulgencio Batista and many other fascists supported the allies.
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  1690.  @lukewarme9121  Republican roots are in Democratic party, due to large scale party switching in the 1960s. According to my definition Fulgencio Batista was a fascist. He made a coup d'etat by seizing the Presidency Obviously, Reagan won a fair election. Even if Hitler had been Buchanan's father, it would not matter.
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  1691.  @lukewarme9121  Republican nominee Ronald Reagan defeated incumbent Democratic president Jimmy Carter in a landslide victory, which is proof of party switching. A bit off-topic, but those who were born in Finland just a couple of years after the Russian Civil War wore a gray jacket. I suspect in US Army use, Blue field uniforms were in fashion 1865-1898. Pat Buchanan graduated long after, in the 1960s.
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  1692.  @lukewarme9121  To my understanding, the founding fathers covers all tricolour flags, because they inspired the French Revolution. For example IRA, United Russia, Belgium, Italy and Mexico etc.
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  1693.  @lukewarme9121  Nor did the other side allow voting, so it was a matter of monarchy vs republic. Washington raised children from his wife’s previous marriage.
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  1694.  @lukewarme9121  That is beyond my jurisdiction. I voted for Finnish nationalists.
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  1695.  @Kevin-mx1vi  You speak as if the Allies had lost the war. It's a NATO country, former Soviet ally https://youtu.be/kKJqCYLoMq8
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  1696.  @ВячеславСкопюк  I think that Denmark was more impartial than Sweden because of the large Swedish population in Finland. Mannerheim, Adolf Ehrnrooth and many other officers were Swedish-speaking. Although Sweden was officially neutral, some 8,000 Swedish volunteers fought in Finland. Actually, they are still in government. Gustaf Adolf expressed his support for Finland during the Continuation War of 1941–1944, and would even have liked to participate as a voluntary soldier in the Winter War of 1939–1940, but the King's disapproval prevented this from happening. Here's an interesting photo featuring General Nenonen, Prince Gustaf Adolf (Princess Victoria's grandfather) and Mannerheim. https://d2mpxrrcad19ou.cloudfront.net/item_images/990918/10873264_fullsize.jpg
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  1697.  @ВячеславСкопюк  Framom främsta linjen: https://youtu.be/_tmWpnWPJPc https://youtu.be/dqFrk3VJ7SQ
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  1698. Nice to see Nordic people too. Lieutenant Colonel William Ekman. Oak-man
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  1699. I don't endorse legalizing cannabis
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  1700. Apparently the WW2 Slovak flag is the same as Russia's current one. In that sense, a Nazi flag.
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  1701. In a nutshell, it’s Strasserism. Germany was a Russian satellite until 1994. Obviously, these cultures have interacted.
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  1702.  @MrMorgan316  That's why I said Strasserism. Massive wall, guns, unitary one-party  republic under a totalitarian  dictatorship: https://youtu.be/uOlMnczVBPY
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  1703. Negative income tax is paid once a year as a tax refund, while traditional welfare is processed once a month. UBI reduces government spending and encourages work, because social services can be abolished and their tasks transferred to the tax authorities.
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  1704. ​ @chissstardestroyer  Nordic Protestants are socialists, but I agree. They are, to put it nicely, a separate sect.
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  1705. I think there must be a bit of anarchy in the Ancap state. I wouldn't call Liechtenstein or Singapore anarchies. Anything can work, but doesn't always work.
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  1706. Lauri Törni was granted a residence permit through an Act of Congress in 1953. Animal Farm (1954 film) was commissioned by the CIA 😱😆
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  1707.  @___-cp6or  I don’t think a clan member would sell guns to black people.
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  1708.  @___-cp6or  Huh? You never heard of Lend-Lease. Particularly important for the Soviets in 1941 were British-supplied tanks and aircraft.
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  1709.  @___-cp6or  Yeah, it's called Anglo-Soviet Agreement.
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  1710.  @tancreddehauteville764  Exactly what I thought. Spirits are not fit for kings, says the Big Book. Rowan Atkinson (in fat suit) should have played Churchill, instead of Gary Oldman.
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  1711.  @Alfred5555  Lord Haw Haw was an American actor. Same as hanging Ralph Fiennes for what he did in the movie Schindler's List
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  1712.  @natekaufman1982  Imagine that German is your third language after Finnish and Swedish. The baby boomer generation did not study English, not to mention those born in the 1920s.
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  1713. German soldiers of the Wehrmacht or SS did not actually face drastic consequences if refusing order during the war. Maybe they were tired, so Hitler gave them permission to rest. France was not completely subjugated until 1942.
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  1714.  @LukeLovesRose  Don’t believe that ridiculous propaganda. The USSR was basically so withered that it didn't make it. Like a mouse that got a nuclear weapon in 1949, then it was a different game for a while.
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  1715.  @LukeLovesRose  Me too. Basically the entire Axis including Eastern part of Germany switched sides because of Normandy.
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  1716. I noticed that the Serbian SS was equipped in "Soviet style", their helmets were either Italian or Czechoslovak. And there were more of them than the Finns and the Danes combined (but less than a division). In addition, they are a South Slavic ethnicity, which weakens the argument about "racial socialism". Practically very similar empires, like the Western Roman Empire and The Byzantine Empire. East Germany was perhaps even more German than the Greater Germanic Reich.
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  1717.  @thefrenchareharlequins2743  I bet there’s an inch somewhere in Northern Ireland or Scotland.
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  1718. I love your unapologetic grudge, but you could also own it. Finland would be crushed without our army, despite the governance model. It's all about money.
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  1719.  @МихаилЧерников-п2т  🇫🇮Happy stubbornness day🇫🇮
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  1720.  @artiombeknazaryan7542  Himmler asked for information on Finland's birth rate and infant mortality and considered it necessary for every family to have at least eight children: "The main thing is that the nation will increase, whether the child is cared for by the home or the state." https://sndp.mediadelivery.fi/img/658/200164845.jpg.webp White washing is not needed, because the US didn't declare war, therefore the unofficial definition was "brothers in arms". In addition, the demobilized Finnish army expelled the Austrians, who could have been besieged if Sweden or the USSR had participated.
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  1721. They would have lost their sense of reality and participated anyway, like South Africa. I don't think either was the cradle of liberalism in 1941.
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  1722.  @billbolton  Didn't South Rhodesia also commit suicide by supporting the British? Robert Mugabe's administration pulled down monuments making reference to the fallen of WW2.
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  1723.  @billbolton  That's true, there is no WW2 without WW1. However, if you imagine the situation of 1941 as a separate war, then maybe they would have sent a volunteer Waffen-SS division "konföderieren".
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  1724. When you go past the "former" KGB agent you have gone too far left.
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  1725. During her fellowship at the Holocaust Museum, Wendy Jo Gertjejanssen was a Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Minnesota. Violence in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan region resulted in damage to approximately 1,500 properties, mostly along the city's University Avenue. You reap what you sow.
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  1726.  @QuizmasterLaw  Germany was similar Burger as Poland. Another Civil War would have been ugly. However, they resisted by surrendering en masse. For comparison, only about 3,000 Finns surrendered, because their socialists were already in charge of government.
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  1727. Endearing when they superceed Soviets and go full Hollywood. Halder was not even in office after September.
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  1728.  @lizardb8694  On paper, SVT-40 looks better than SKS. I guess they had their reasons to replace it. Sgt. Mallila with captured SVT-40: http://www.ww2incolor.com/finnish_forces/Eino+Mallila+armed+with+SVT-40.html
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  1729.  @Rhinopotamus  I understand that there is a ban on the import of Kalasnikov in the US. I do not know if the old RK will at some point be replaced by FN SCAR. Even though manufacturing is finished, the RK 62 still in use as a service rifle: https://tinyurl.com/rgt8hhc
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  1730. They read the Bible and act on it
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  1731.  @jangrosek4334  Knowing the family backgrounds of those involved, The Cudgel War was a Finland-Estonia independence war from Sweden. Sadly, the victims were innocent Swedes. Basically, people on the west coast still identify with Sweden. They deny any connection to Eastern Europe, which is kind of true. Tsar moved the capital to Helsinki, so that he doesn't have to visit Turku Yes, Finland was de facto Russia's successor, Czechoslovakia within Austria-Hungary : )
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  1732. Finns celebrated when the British and French blew up a Swedish fort in Russia: https://youtu.be/b3T8WmibAck
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  1733.  @nivlacsenoj6264  In addition, there may be internal threats. Sounds pointless, but it's not.
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  1734.  @nivlacsenoj6264  Children are fine soldiers. They destroy road signs, park benches and waste baskets for fun. My roommate in the army was 17yo at the time. However, Norway was downright flooded with soldiers during WW2. Peak strength was about 500,000 in December 1944.
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  1735.  @МихаилЧерников-п2т  We still own the farm that Stalin was trying to "collectivize". He took away your voting rights and farms. How is that our loss?
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  1736. They went too far in 2003. De-Ba'athification, coupled with the disbandment of the Iraqi military, if not created then at least fueled the insurgency. https://youtu.be/Jgp4BMVpVec
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  1737. Ain't nobody got time for that. Modern France is very similar to the United States. Proves that in the end it doesn't matter if the border is kept open.
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  1738.  @TigerBaron  "blamed it all on the germans until the end of communism" While not everything was revealed after Stalin’s death, over the decades, the USSR admitted many of their crimes. Once Politburo makes a statement (intoxicated or not), it's difficult to put it back in the bottle, at least in printed form. According to some Russians, being Ukrainian seems to nullify all their statements.
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  1739. Americans buy literally heroin from a drugstore. Canadians spend significantly less money with better results.
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  1740. Ronald Reagan was classified for limited service only due to his poor eyesight. Perhaps the real reason was his value as a propagandist. As isolationists, they also criticized the Vietnam War.
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  1741. I think Brigadier General Mathias Kräutler was qualified. Blue eyes, 6'0", 189 pounds. At least he was not completely obliterated like many others. Perhaps a bit luck involved. I do not agree with their decision to make northern Finland a car park. Prisoner of war from 23 August 1945 to 15 January 1947. That is 1 year, 4 months, 23 days.
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  1742. Representing the fascist party IKL, Paavo Susitaival (1896-1993) was elected as a member of the Finnish parliament. His thoughts shed light on why fascists would fight fascists. "We have always been faced by one great danger - Russia. Formerly czarist, now bolshevist and possibly in the future, a fascist Russia. Nothing that happens in this world moves us as much as this issue." "An activist might end up in a conflict not only with laws and good manners, but with his own conscience. In history, he might receive the reputation of a murderer. But he must bear this contradiction. He will not be left with anything, no fame, no glory, only an inner satisfaction that he has worked for what is best for his country. He is nameless and without fame, nameless and without fame he will disappear in time." -Lieutenant Colonel Paavo Susitaival
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  1743. I don't think so. I understand conquering Denmark, but the French, Belgian and Ukrainian divisions are not very Germanic. Pan-European identity is not the same as Irish identity.
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  1744. Whether Vyborg was the most industrialized or not, 80% of the population lived in rural villages. For example, nowadays my home town Kuopio (in the middle of nowhere) is bigger than Vyborg.
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  1745.  @nneesskkee  I know. That is why I have some doubts about the "hi-tech park" of 1939, even though it was a Nordic country. These people were literally like the Mennonites: https://youtu.be/Xqp4ixoi8rU
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  1746.  @nneesskkee  I largely agree that the situation was hopeless in 1940. Although these claims usually come from NATO supporters, I am not in favor of full membership. In any case, a crisis situation would ultimately put Finland in a position of co-belligerence with NATO.
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  1747. Churchill was a commie helper. It's the complete opposite of libertarianism.
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  1748. Albert Speer in Lapland. He ate a lot of sauteed reindeer, but was not huge fan of cognac. https://bit.ly/2Z23wAf
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  1749.  @petervote7914  I think Chamberlain has been criticized too much. His mistake was to declare war. Chamberlain should have converted to Irish.
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  1750. Napoleon was an innovator, now he is a mummy. Imagine dressing like him in 2022. For everything there is a season, as the big book says.
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  1751. Spoiler alert. Although Friedrich Paulus was a sick man, he was the epitome of a corrupt leader. He never took responsibility for his failure. Even Karl Dönitz, at least in his later years, criticized the lack of criticism.
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  1752.  @TheImperatorKnight  Paulus should not obey bad orders, even if it costs his life. Ultimately, the army commander feeds his troops or is in the wrong job. This was already written at the time in a German Army field manual.
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  1753.  @nukclear2741  Sure, the long winning streak had blinded them, but Paulus should have used common sense. Alexei Vinogradov was shot because of a similar mistake. I mean the captain goes down with the ship. A couple of years ago the Costa Concordia captain was sentenced to a 16-year prison sentence.
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  1754.  @nukclear2741  Or, in the case of Finland, half a battalion. Hitler and Göring sank with the ship. Dönitz was appointed, so he didn't have to submerge in a submarine.
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  1755.  @nukclear2741  This might last longer than you think https://youtu.be/sECfswIxWlY?t=1038
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  1756. Water causes madness. The Nazis drank water.
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  1757.  @joeshmireku8665  I remember when Ingvar Kamprad visited my hometown in 2011. He was a modest man. It was prolly the alcohol and snus that killed him at the age of 91.
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  1758.  @lizardb8694  Toivo Vaaramo (orig. Warzabu from Poland) was a Jewish SS officer. His family background was not properly investigated.
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  1759.  @СергейРублев-т7я  Finland was flawed democracy in 1939 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_freedom_indices Slipped into a Nazi dictatorship 1973-82 https://www.bitchute.com/video/zfbeZG9Hv7PV/ Notice the 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking insignia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utti_Jaeger_Regiment
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  1760. How much did Japan change as a result? Iwo Jima was given back to Japan. Truman also attacked Korea and managed to save Seoul. North Korea is like Karen with nukes.
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  1761. On the other hand, Finland managed to avoid war with the USA. I think survival would have been possible in 1942, but the parades were already behind. https://youtu.be/cgnh1tGtAbk
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  1762.  @changcheng7364  It's a myth that war in the West was much easier. Finland, Italy, Bulgaria and Romania also fought against Germany, and it was no less brutal than usual.
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  1763.  @vadimpm1290  https://youtu.be/ugeUGnxvm_U
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  1764. One thing that doesn’t fit that theory are the former royals within the nazi party and foreign partners. Literally relatives of Queen Victoria. That doesn't sound very proletarian. Also, there were more Christian holidays in Germany. Day of Repentance and Prayer is still a public holiday in Saxony. Soviets celebrated Christmas and the end of Ramadan.
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  1765.  @richardcontinijr9661  Sure, Poland and Belarus were obliterated. Kuusamo was looted by the Red Army in September 1944. An SS colonel hid the 17th century church bell. It was excavated from the ground in 1959. Why, because it was a Swedish bell.
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  1766.  @richardcontinijr9661  His unit was SS-Gebirgs-Jäger Regiment 12 Michael Gaißmair. Who was he? Of course Michael Gaismair was a communist. He was discovered by none other than Friedrich Engels.
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  1767. Huh. What are you talking about? He just said Stalin is from Georgia. They rally behind Stalin.
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  1768. Oic Miljardi in Finnish. Yet another loanword from France. I feel like everything related to science has come from France, except for the beer measure mäyräkoira (dachshund), which means 12 cans
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  1769. Churchill, Eden, FDR, Truman, LBJ, JFK, Stalin, Khrushchev and many others died before Karl Dönitz. God works in mysterious ways. I don't know if Karl sent condolences.
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  1770.  @alfredcollins3944  Meaning it was a good thing? Well, Britain was not yet a complete democracy.
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  1771.  @knightsofazeroth  Either Paulus was sick in the head or a Pol Pot level dick. There is no way around it. Another question is why the National Committee for a Free Germany did not rise in revolt sooner. Grenades were untraceable to an owner and did not leave any ballistic evidence.
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  1772.  @nobody227  A couple of years ago I read "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich". I think it's a good and sufficiently condensed book. Alexander Tvardovski asked for permission to publish from the party leader Nikita Khrushchev himself.
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  1773. Yugoslavia was in alliance with Turkey, but now Serbia is supporting Putin. Russia armed North Korea with nuclear weapons. Russia took over Crimea in 2014. India is still a member of the Commonwealth, yet they abstained. Russian fascism is provoking, expanding and spreading everywhere.
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  1774.  @firebird9711  Before this video, I thought he was a fascist. Modern fascists never criticize communists because it is easy to fool them with red symbols.
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  1775. Boomers were born after the war, so not just his idea. That's why Baghdad is bigger than St. Petersburg.
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  1776. "report concluding that Finnish troops likely participated" http://www.newser.com/story/271101/finland-admits-wwii-atrocity.html "However, the documentation, including old diaries was considered vague and could not entirely be confirmed, according to the report." https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/report_finnish_ss_soldiers_carried_out_atrocities_against_jews_and_civilians_during_wwii/10639253 This is BS, I'm moving to Latvia : )
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  1777.  @sorsocksfake  Some of them would have been recruited anyway to the regular army. They are somewhat more active, but not significantly better killers. I assume, a normal unit would choose its brawls more carefully.
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  1778. Engineering work is often a fairly simple 1+1+1 cost calculation. You calculate how many toilets will be installed in a hospital. In between, you make coffee like a butler.
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  1779.  @DaveGIS123  Are you related to Henrik Ramsay?
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  1780.  @DaveGIS123  Fair enough I would say that eastern Finland is undervalued. Swiss SSR ambience: https://youtu.be/ffZUBIg-uf4 https://tinyurl.com/ql9uekm
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  1781.  @halflifeapc8777  Explain post-war period? You got to be more specific. Once upon a time, the soil of Lepikon Torppa in a box was taken all the way to Moscow, because it was "the best the fatherland has to offer".
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  1782.  @johnburns4017  President of Finland Mauno Koivisto was also there. He had with him a Bible in which he wrote notes. An interesting moderate-left perspective, although he considered Stalin to be the Anti-Christ. His wife is still alive, from whose bookshelf it has been borrowed by bishop Huovinen. https://youtu.be/tLKx6vYHz3s
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  1783.  @johnburns4017  Apparently it's further south, in Primorsk. Maybe that's why Govorov criticized the commanders since they had already passed their target area.
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  1784. I don’t know if the black and white image does him justice, but Naujocks doesn’t look like an albino SS man in the movie Defiance. He signed on as a low-ranking driver for the SD-Regional Command. He was promoted to the rank of major, and then demoted after disputing one of Reinhard Heydrich's orders.
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  1785.  @johnburns4017  Russia's influence is greater in Eastern Finland. A significant number of Nordic people already lived in Novgorod. Some Swedes have also changed their names to Finnish after forgetting the culture of their homeland. Wignat culture is very Russian. For example, Pekka Siitoin was a descendant of an SS man and a Russian woman, which made him an amusing character. The same goes for Nikke Pärmi.
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  1786.  @WandererRTF  I feel a bit like you would be a Peruvian explaining that Inca culture is not American. Not russian https://www.sotapolku.fi/henkilot/titov_feodor_1900-01-01_salmi/ Finland was not Axis because we have a different flag. https://bit.ly/2zT5Fn8 Not AK variant https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maneesi_univormunäyttely_26_kokelas_1960-luku.JPG That being said, cut cognac is no vodka.
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  1787.  @WandererRTF  Geography is essential, because you dismiss the Gothic architecture of Western Russia, or millions of Finno-Ugric people living in Russia. Eastern Finland has been strongly influenced by Eastern European culture since 1323, hence cut cognac. https://www.helsinki.fi/en/news/life-science-news/finlands-recent-history-is-inscribed-in-the-genes
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  1788.  @WandererRTF  The article says, that the people of Novgorod didn't marry outsiders until the 1970s. In other words, Eastern Finland is still more Russian than Russia.
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  1789.  @WandererRTF  Apparently you are confusing Swedish-American culture with Finnish. Maybe nowadays not such a thick accent, but it's very Eastern. https://youtu.be/6CJ09qlsU6c
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  1790.  @WandererRTF  Although self-irony, Boris Johnson is talking about himself. Self-deprecation and the Corpus Juris Civilis are of Greek origin. https://youtu.be/U0qchnptckA
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  1791.  @popsey72  My Novgorodian culture is not your goddam prom dress http://rauha.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/pahkina.png
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  1792. According to Wikipedia, Nazi ideology is scientific racism. Even though there are no shocking differences between human races, they still exist, as do colors. In the wild, subspecies do not interbreed due to geographic isolation or sexual selection.
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  1793. Himmler went on vacation and sauna in Finland. It's quite possible that I am his illegitimate grandchild. https://tinyurl.com/txmusd4
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  1794. To my recollection, the UN defines ethnic cleansing according to language. In other words, a violent black man is not considered nationalist, if he speaks English in England. According to that definition, the USSR was guilty of ethnic cleansing also inside its own borders.
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  1795.  @seanmac1793  Mannerheim was two-faced https://youtu.be/GDQob4AOCsQ
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  1796. My home country would not exist without germans winning the Battle of Helsinki (1918). Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim was the regent of Finland (1918-1919) together with Rüdiger von der Goltz. They both handed over power to K.J Ståhlberg, consequently Finland became a republic.
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  1797.  @LucioFercho  That is the Old Testament. You know, it was written before Jesus was born. Considering 2.4 billion followers, a fairly peaceful religion.
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  1798.  @LucioFercho  You read like the Devil reads the Bible. That is why we have clarifying works, such as Letters and Papers from Prison by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. What you describe is known as Prosperity Theology. You know, when Jesus chops the cross into firewood.
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  1799.  @lisap.31  They didn't include it in the first place. The first Finnish Bible was printed in Stockholm in 1640, during a religious war.
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  1800.  @lisap.31  Why do you blame Christians for a collection of ancient religious Hebrew writings by the Israelites. You make religion sound like rocket science. I once spent Christmas in the Philippines. They have a decorated spruce tree and eat pork, just like us.
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  1801. That's a long list. The Soviet Union and Russia have also been involved in several cases. Fortunately, not all cases led to anarchy. And Perhaps it is because of Niko Bellic that Serbia is even more Serbian these days. Ireland could be an archipelago  province belonging to Finland, but it's not. Despite the EU, local people have a lot of rights in developed countries.
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  1802.  @ClannCholmain  There is also a lot of corruption and bureaucracy in the EU. Many EU countries are to blame for the list you wrote. Finland has also been involved in Afghanistan, though more in the role of a doctor than of a judge.
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  1803.  @ClannCholmain  I don't really care who is rich or poor. Before the border control was removed, the biggest problem was a PC calendar failure. I live in Finland so I have no knowledge of corruption. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2000_problem
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  1804.  @ВячеславСкопюк  Estonians are former Soviet citizens with an EU passport. There would be more Russians living in Finland without strict language laws. However, the St. Petersburg-Helsinki train carries about 480,000 passengers a year.
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  1805.  @ВячеславСкопюк  In the Prisma store in St. Petersburg, Finlandia vodka is on the bottom shelf. In Helsinki it is not sold at all in Prisma, because Alko is the only store in the country which retails beer over 5.5% and spirits. https://youtu.be/6iJLGqBZyCc
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  1806. The World at War (TV Series 1973–1974), 9.2/10 on imdb. That's how WW2 should be taught to general public.
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  1807.  @leoa4c  I am not interested in much other than Eastern Finland and Lapland. Fortunately, Brigadier General Lauri Kiianlinna has translated the most important documents to Finnish.
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  1808. If Hitler wasn't crazy, it was only a matter of time. That's the problem of dictatorships. Urho Kekkonen was a madman. His election debate with himself cannot be shown on youtube because there was a giant swastika in the background.
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  1809. Yahya Khan initiated the genocide in Bangladesh with the launch of Operation Searchlight. He participated in the Mediterranean theatre of World War II on behalf of Great Britain's British Indian Army.
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  1810.  @philpatterson7085  Co-founder of the bank was a democrat. Fritz Thyssen Foundation still exists in Cologne. Yeah it's a conspiracy theory.
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  1811.  @philpatterson7085  So? Mauno Koivisto, Helmut Schmidt and Willi Stoph fought on the eastern front. I do not see a connection with the southern states during WW2. Dwight D. Eisenhower carpet bombing Europe is somehow helping the Nazies?
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  1812.  @philpatterson7085  There is no confusion. Finland became the first place in continental Europe to implement racially-equal suffrage for women in 1906. That doesn’t mean the alien invasion wasn’t repelled and deported. The United States did not declare war on Finland during WW2. After the Continuation War, and while still in prison, Väinö Tanner became the virtual leader of a faction of the SDP which had strong support from the USA. When the SDP became globalistic, the nationalists faction founded a different party called the Finns party.
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  1813.  @philpatterson7085  You are right. His son flew his first combat mission in May 1944, bombing Japanese-held Wake Island. At this stage, Finland had good relations with Japan, despite them being Asian.
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  1814. Big pharma definitely is not stupid and not capitalist.
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  1815. Maybe that's a myth, but stab in the front is not a myth. Germany was the good guy. Why do you think Einstein lived in Berlin and supported Germany.
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  1816.  @dbassman27  I watched the BBC's Blackadder. Belgium and France were brutal dictatorships. Germany was the most democratic country in Europe and only liberated enslaved peoples. Millions died as they were forced to walk towards German machine guns.
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  1817.  @theonlydjtopcat  I think you're right. They are not communists, but center-left African nationalists.
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  1818. Basically, you admit that Slavs were behind the genocide. In fact, Finland's highest-ranking Nazi was Sergei (Johan Christian) Fabritius. Sergei was born in Moscow and his first language was Russian. Boris Bazhanov visited Berlin and met with Alfred Rosenberg, the head of the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories. Allegedly, Bazhanov was skeptical of Germany's plans and returned to Paris in 1941. He was the personal secretary of Joseph Stalin from August 1923 to 1925.
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