Comments by "Jussi M. Konttinen" (@jussim.konttinen4981) on "The Debate over German POWs in Soviet Hands WW2" video.

@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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@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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@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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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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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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@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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@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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@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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@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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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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